Hi guys! Welcome back to my blog😉. How are you? I hope you are always healthy and full of spirit. Today we will dicuss about narrative text.
Narrative is an imaginary story that aims to entertain the reader. Of couse, what it called imaginary story is not necessarily true because it could be just an imagination or fictious stort made by someone or a story made by a group of people that has not been proven true. Example of narrative are, Cinderella, Sangkurian, Snow White, Rabbit and Crocofile, etc. For a more detailed explanation, please read the following explanation.
Definition of Narrative Text
Narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (teks narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang).
Generic Structure of Narrative Text
# Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
# Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)
# Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, secara baik “happy ending” ataupun buruk “bad ending”.
# Coda / reorientation (optional) – lesson from the story.
Kadangkala susunan (generic structure) narrative text bisa berisi: Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation. Meski “Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa ditambahkan dan bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik. Sedangkan Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.
Purpose of Narrative Text
The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.
The Characteristics/ Language Features of Narrative Text
– Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)
– Adverb of time (Once upun a time, one day, etc)
– Time conjunction (when, then, suddenly, etc)
– Specific character. The character of the story is specific, not general. (Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc)
– Action verbs. A verb that shows an action. (killed, dug, walked, etc)
– Direct speech. It is to make the story lively. (Snow White said,”My name is Snow White). The direct speech uses present tense.
Narrative Text Part I
Part 1: Write a narrative text and record the video while you read the text.
The Vampire and The Princess
Once upon a time, in a huge castle, lived a beautiful princess named Carmilla. She was the only child in the family yet she had been forced to obey her father’s rules. She was unhappy most of the time. The king had never let Carmilla leave the castle. Thus, the maid often caught Carmilla crying in the middle of the night.
One night, Carmilla was sitting in front of her window. Her pretty eyes became blurry with tears. Sally, her maid, couldn’t stand to watch the sadness. She eventually offered Carmilla to watch an opera at Classical Theater. Without hesitation, Carmilla said yes. They sneaked out from the castle at night. The guards had been told to stay quiet while waiting for Sally and Carmilla to come home.
There, Carmilla saw a mysterious handsome tall man playing violin very beautifully. She began to cry, feeling the music had shaken her every soul. Before the curtain was closed, Carmilla caught the man’s eyes. Cold and dark. She knew from that moment that she was in love.
Night after night, Camilla and Cecilion were getting closer. Everytime Cecilion finished his performance, they met behind the stage. Unfortunately, Sally was fired because one of the guards revealed the secret to the king. From then, Carmilla stopped seeing Cecilion and the king ordered her to marry a prince.
“This world is not fair!” shouted Carmilla. Every night she sat by the window, thinking about Cecilion. But, she had to face her wedding and was forced to forget Cecilion. On the night of her wedding day, she was dressed in all-white, crying silently. Suddenly, she received a letter that surprisingly fell from nowhere. She read it carefully and began to cry louder than before.
The letter told her that Cecilion was a vampire. He loved Carmilla more than anything in his life. He asked for Carmilla’s forgiveness because he had been lying to her about his true identity. He also said that vampires and humans couldn’t possibly be together.
“What on earth should I do? I love him!” asked Carmilla. She would rather die than not having a chance to live with Cecilion. Hence, she decided to end her life by slitting her wrist.
The marriage was a tragedy. A stone-cold Carmilla had already died, lying in her coffin. Cecilion knew that he had to take his only love, Carmilla. After everyone left the church, he flew away with Carmilla’s body and sucked her blood. That way made Carmilla become alive and immortal. Her eyes were red as roses, hair as white as clouds. She reborned. As a vampire.
Since Carmilla’s death, nobody in the castle nor around the village had ever seen her and Cecilion. They both seemed to have disappeared. Although everyone thought exactly they were dead, Carmilla and Cecilion actually lived together. Each night, they were hugging each other by the window. Under the moonlight, they were driven with passionate love. Without rules, without sadness. Forever.
There are my video read the text:
Narrative Text Part II
Questions about Narrative Text
The following text is for question 1 to 3.
Once upon a time there lived a little girl named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.
One day she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.
Snow White didn’t want her uncle and aunt to do that so she decided that it would be best if she ran away. The next morning she ran away into the woods. She was very tired and hungry. Then she saw a little cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and fell asleep.
Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work. There they found Snow White sleeping. Then Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs.
The dwarfs said, “What is your name?”
Snow White said, “My name is Snow White.”
Then, Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story.
The dwarfs said, “If you want, you may live here with us.”
Snow White answered, “Oh, could I? Thank you.”
Finally, Snow White and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.
1. Why Snow White ran away to the woods?
A. Her parents passed away
B. Her uncle was angry with her
C. Her uncle and aunt would go to America
D. Snow White was happy to run away
E. Snow White liked playing in the woods.
Answer : C. Her uncle and aunt would go to America
2. Where did Snow White live after she ran away to the woods?
A. She lived in the cave
B. She lived in the lion nest
C. She lived everywhere in the woods
D. She lived in the dwarfs’ cottage
E. She lived on the street
Answer : D. She lived in the dwarfs’ cottage
3. According to the text, before she ran away into the woods, why did Snow White live with her uncle and aunt?
A. because she loved them very much
B. as a result of forcing attitude from them
C. because her parents were dead
D. because she were afraid of the dwarfs
E. because she ran away from a monster
Answer : C. because her parents were dead
The following text is for question 4 to 5.
Once upon a time there was a wife of a rich man fell sick, and soon she closed her eyes and departed. Everyday, Cinderella went out to her mother’s grave, and wept, and she remained pious and good .When winter came, the snow spread a white sheet over the grave, and by the time the spring sun had drawn it off again, the man had taken another wife. The woman had brought with her into the house two daughters, who were beautiful and fairy of face but vile and black of heart. Since then a bad time for the poor step-child began.
One day the King gave orders for a festival and all the beautiful young girls in the country were invited, in order that his son might choose himself a bride.When the two step-sisters heard that they were to appear among the number, they were delighted, called Cinderella and made to help them grooming, Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go with them to dance, and begged her step-mother said” you cannot go with us, you have no clothes and cannot dance.
When the step-mother and her daughters had gone away, Cinderella went to her mother’s grave and cried, Shiver and Quiver, My little tree, silver and gold throw down over me.” Suddenly a bird threw down a magnificent gold and silver dress to her,and were golden too. At the party her step-sister and the step-mother however did not recognize her, and thought she must be a foreign princess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress.
4. How did her step-mother treat Cinderella ?
A. she allowed go any where
B. she doesn’t her to allow
C. she allows goes every where
D. she didn’t go any where
E. she didn’t allow her go
Answer : E. she didn’t allow her go
5. Why couldn’t Cinderella go to the festival?
A. she doesn’t dance
B. she has dance
C. she didn’t dance
D. she didn’t have clothes and couldn’t dance
E. she couldn’t dance
Answer : D. she didn’t have clothes and couldn’t dance
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