Narrative text is a story that presents a complication or problem and seeks to resolve it. It uses past tense, time conjunctions, and action verbs to relate events. The purpose is to entertain the reader. A narrative has an orientation to introduce characters and setting, a complication with developing problems, and a resolution where issues are solved, either happily or tragically. An example is the story of Rapunzel, where she is locked in a tower by a witch but meets a prince, they fall in love, the witch discovers them and punishes them, but Rapunzel's tears ultimately heal the prince and they live happily ever after.
Narrative text is a story that presents a complication or problem and seeks to resolve it. It uses past tense, time conjunctions, and action verbs to relate events. The purpose is to entertain the reader. A narrative has an orientation to introduce characters and setting, a complication with developing problems, and a resolution where issues are solved, either happily or tragically. An example is the story of Rapunzel, where she is locked in a tower by a witch but meets a prince, they fall in love, the witch discovers them and punishes them, but Rapunzel's tears ultimately heal the prince and they live happily ever after.
Narrative text is a story that presents a complication or problem and seeks to resolve it. It uses past tense, time conjunctions, and action verbs to relate events. The purpose is to entertain the reader. A narrative has an orientation to introduce characters and setting, a complication with developing problems, and a resolution where issues are solved, either happily or tragically. An example is the story of Rapunzel, where she is locked in a tower by a witch but meets a prince, they fall in love, the witch discovers them and punishes them, but Rapunzel's tears ultimately heal the prince and they live happily ever after.
Narrative text is a story that presents a complication or problem and seeks to resolve it. It uses past tense, time conjunctions, and action verbs to relate events. The purpose is to entertain the reader. A narrative has an orientation to introduce characters and setting, a complication with developing problems, and a resolution where issues are solved, either happily or tragically. An example is the story of Rapunzel, where she is locked in a tower by a witch but meets a prince, they fall in love, the witch discovers them and punishes them, but Rapunzel's tears ultimately heal the prince and they live happily ever after.
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NARRATIVE TEXT
What is Narrative Text??
Definition • Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a process narration.
• The purpose of narrative text
The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story. Generic Structures of Narrative Text 1. Orientation : Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.
2. Complication : Tells the beginning of the problems which
leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.
3. Resolution : The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a
happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending Language feature of narrative text
• Using past tense
• Using time conjunction : (when, then, suddenly, etc.)
• Using adverb of time : (once upon a time, one day, etc.)
• Using action verb
Rapunzel
1. Orientation
Once upon a time, there is a poor farmer and his wife. One day, they tried to pluck fruits from the neighbor's garden. But their neighbor was actually an old, wicked witch. He screamed "How dare you steal from my garden, I will turn you both into rats!". he couple trembled with fear. Finally, the witch said, "Very well, I'll let you go. But, you have to give me your first child," they were so scared, they were immediately agreed. 2. Complication : Once later, a beautiful baby girl was born to the farmer and his wife. Immediately, the old witch came and snatched the girl away from them. He named her Rapunzel and kept her lock in a high tower. He grew up to be a beautiful girl. But most beautiful of all was her log, golden hair. He only person she ever saw was the old witch. Every day, the witch used to come to the foot of the tower and call, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!, she then used to let her long plait fall out the window, and the witch used to hold onto it and climb up. One day, a prince who was passing by, hid behind the trees and watch the witch. As soon as she left, he too decided to try, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!, he tried and climbed up into her room. She was stunned to see the prince. She had never before seen anybody so handsome. The prince too fell in love with her. They began to secretly met everyday after the witch left. One day however, the witch realized what has been going on. She screamed and shouted in anger. She cut off her hair and send her off deep into the forest. That day, when the prince came, he found the witch waiting for him at the top of the tower. She cursed and screamed some more, before casting a spell on him , that make the prince lost his sight. The prince, now blind and broken heart, wandered through the forest 3. Resolution :
Many days later, Rapunzel found him wounded among the
trees. She began to cry at the sorry sight of her prince. But as soon as her tears fell on him, he wounds healed and his eye sight returned . She first thing the prince saw was his beloved. They were happy to find each other. They went away to his kingdom, and lived happily ever after. THANK YOU
