NARRATIVE

DEFINITION OF NARRATIVE

Have you ever read story such as Cinderella, Alladin, or Sleeping Beauty? Those text include NARRATIVE text. NARRATIVE is a text to amuse or entertain the readers with a story that deals with complications or problematic events.

GENERIC STRUCTURE OR TEXT ORGANIZATION

• Orientation : Introducing the actors, time, and place the events happened
• Complication : Problem and conflict in the story
• Resolution : Problem solving

 LANGUAGE FEATURE

• Past tense, such as We went to the zoo ; She was very happy, etc.
• Time connectives and conjunction to massage the events. Such as then, before that, soon, etc.
• Adverbs and adverbial phrases to show the place. Among others are here, in the mountain, happily ever after, etc.
• Action verbs in past tense ; stayed, climbed, opened, etc.
• Saying verbs ; said, told, promised, etc. And thinking verbs ; thought, understood, etc.
• Adjectives that form noun phrase, such as, long black hair, two red apples, etc.
• Noun (person or people, animals, things) in the story, such as stepsisters, housework, etc.

EXAMPLE OF NARRATIVE TEXT

Queen of Arabia and Three Sheiks

Maura, who liked to be thought of as the most beautiful and powerful queen of Arabia, had many suitors. One by one she discarded them, until her list was reduced to just three sheiks. The three sheiks were all equally young and handsome. They were also rich and strong. It was very hard to decide who would be the best of them.

One evening, Maura disguised herself and went to the camp of  the three sheiks. As they were about to have dinner, Maura asked them for something to eat. The first gave her some leftover food. The second Sheik gave her some unappetizing camel's tail. The third sheik, who was called Hakim, offered her some of the most tender and tasty meat. After dinner, the disguised queen left the sheik's camp.

The following day, the queen invited the three sheiks to dinner at her palace. She ordered her servant to give each one exactly what they had given her the evening before. Hakim, who received a plate of delicious meat, refused to eat it if the other two sheiks could not share it with him.

This Sheik Hakim's act finally convinced Queen Maura that he was the man for her. "Without question, Hakim is the most generous of you" she announced her choice to the sheiks. "So it is Hakim I will marry".

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