Topic 9

Legend
(Narrative Text)
Definition of
Narrative Text
Narrative text is an imaginative
story to entertain and attract readers
by presenting a story or event that
has a problem that causes conflic
and at the end of the story there is a
resolution that can be a happy
ending or even a sad ending.
Social Functions
The social functions of narrative
text is to tell stories or past events
and entertain the readers.
Kinds of Narrative Text
01 02 03
Fable Folktales Fairy tales
Short story typically with A story originating in popular A children’s story about magical
and imaginary beings and lands.
animal as characters. culture, typically passed on by word
of mouth. For the example: Bawang For the example; Cinderella, Snow
merah & bawang putih white, etc.
04 05
Myth Legend
A story that is believed by A traditional story sometimes
many people but that is not popularly regarded as historical
true. For the example: Nyi but unauthenticated. For example:
Roro Kidul Legenda Tangkuban Perahu
Legend
Legend is a story from the past that many
people believe, but it has not been proved nor
documented in real history.
Characteristics of legend:
- A legend is a set in specific place or time.
- The main character is human not a God.
- A legend is a fictional story
- Usually, there is some historical truth at the
heart of every legend
- The hero is real but not completely true.
- Handed down through generation.
Generic Structure
1 2 3 4
Orientation Complication Resolution Re-orientation
- It tells what
- It tells about the text happens with the
- The phase tells how -It tells the conlusion of
the participants solve
talks in general participants. the story.
the problems aroused
- It should include the - It explores the - it usually include the
-The conflict becomes
characters of the story conflict among the lesson from the story.
ended
participants
- The problem must be
resolved
Language Features
Specific character, not Use Direct Speech Use of
Use adverb of time general past tense
It is to make the story lively.
Example: once upon a Example: Sang Kuriang, The direct speech uses present Simple past tense,
time, one day, etc Kebo Iwa, etc tense. For example: Snow past continuous
tense, past perfect
white said, “My name is Snow
tense, past perfect
White” continuous tense
Use of Use of time

adjectives connectives and Use of thinking Use of action verbs
conjuctions saying and verb
Example: stood, explained,
To build noun groups to To indicate what provided, smashed, etc
To sequence events characters are feeling
describe the people, animals through time. For thinking or saying. For
or things in the story. For example: however, example: told, realized,
example: a nice, diligent, although, later, then, etc. decided.
kind-hearted man, etc.
THE
EXAMPLE
OF
NARRATIVE
TEXT
The Legend of Surabaya
A long time ago, there were two animals, Sura and Baya. Sura was the name of shark and Baya was a crocodile.
They lived in a sea. Once Sura and Baya were looking for some food. Suddenly, Baya was a goat.
“Yummy, this is my lunch,” said Baya. “No way! This is my lunch. You are greedy” said Sura. Then they fought
for the goat. After several hours, they were very tired. Feeling tired of fighting, they lived in the different places. Sura lived
in the water and Baya lived in the land. The border was the beach, so they would naver fight again. One day, Sura went to
the land and looked for some food in the river. He was very hungry and there was not much food in the sea. Baya was very
angry when he knew that Sura broke the promise.
They fought again. They both hit each other. sura bit Baya’s tail. Baya did the same thing to Sura. He bit very hard
until Sura finally gave up and went back to the sea. Baya was happy.
People always talked about the fought between Sura and Baya. They name the place of the fought as Surabaya, it’s
from name Shark Sura and Crocodile Baya. People also put their fought as the symbol of Surabaya City.
Quiz Time
Please answer the quiz for this topic. You can find the
link on e-learning. if you have any problem please tell
your teacher. Thank you.
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