CONTOH NARRATIVE 1

CONTOH TEKS NARRATIVE DAN ANALISIS GENERIC STRUCTUR-NYA
WHY DO HAWKS HUNT CHICKS?
Orientation	Once upon a time, a hawk fell in love with a hen. The hawk flew down from the sky and asked the hen, “Will you marry me?”
Complication	The hen loved the brave, strong hawk and wished to marry him. But she said, “I can not fly as high as you can. If you give time, I may learn to fly together.”
Resolution	The hawk agreed. Before he went away, he gave the hen a ring. “This is to show that you have promised to marry me,: said the hawk.
Complication	It so happened that the hen had already promised to marry a rooster. So, when the rooster saw the ring, he became very angry. “Throw that ring away at once!” shouted the rooster. The hen was so frightened at the rooster’s anger that she threw away the ring immediately.
Resolution	When the hawk came a few months later, the hen told him the truth. The hawk was so furious that he cursed the hen, “Why didn’t you tell me earlier? Now, you will always be scratching the earth, I will always be flying above to catch your children,” said the hawk.

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DEFINITION OF NARRATIVE TEXT

DEFINITION			Narrative is a text that amuses, entertains, and deals with actual or vicarious experiences in different ways; Narrative deals with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.
COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE				The communicative purpose of the narrative text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners.
GENERIC STRUCTURE ( Schematic Structure ) OR Text Organization		ORIENTATION: It is the stage where the narrator introduces: Characters of the story; the time and the place the story happened. ( Who, What, When, and Where ).
		EVALUATION: a stepping back to evaluate the plight ( the information about the narrator’s point of view ). It is optional.
		COMPLICATION: It is the stage where something unexpected happens or events go wrong for one of the main characters. There can be more than complication event in a narrative           ( Crisis or conflict of the story ).
		RESOLUTION: It is the stage where the earlier complication is resolved for better or worse     ( How the crisis or conflict is resolved ).
		REORIENTATION: It is the stage which returns the listeners or readers to present and provide a kind of matic summation of the events-rather like the moral at the end of the fable.   ( It is optional )
		Note: The most common generic structure used in this text is : ORIENTATION – COMPLICATION - RESOLUTION
LINGUISTIC FEATURES (Lexicogrammatical Features)	1.    Menggunakan Nouns sebagai kata ganti orang, hewan, dan benda tertentu dalam cerita, misalnya: stepsisters, housework, etc. 2.    Menggunakan Adjectives yang membentuk Noun Phrase, misalnya: long back hair, two red apples, etc. 3.    Menggunakan Time Connectives dan Conjunctions untuk mengurutkan kejadian, misalnya: then, before that, soon, etc. 4.    Menggunakan Temporal Conjunction dan Temporal Circumtances, seperti: a few years ago, sometimes, for three months now, one awful night, etc. 5.    Menggunakan Adverb atau Adverbial Phrases untuk menunjukkan lokasi kejadian atau peristiwa, misalnya: here, in the mountain, happily after, etc. 6.    Menggunakan Action Verb ( Material Process ) dalam Simple Past, Misalnya: Stayed, climbed, etc. 7.    Menggunakan Saying Verb ( Verbal Process ) yang menandai ucapan seperti : said, told, promised, etc. 8.    Menggunakan Thinking Verb ( Mental Process ) yang menandai pikiran, persepsi, atau perasaan tokoh dalam cerita, seperti: thought, understood, felt, etc.
Types of Narrative					Legend, Fable, Fairy tales, Historical Story, Folktale, etc.

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CONTOH TEKS RECOUNT 1

CONTOH TEKS RECOUNT DAN ANALISIS GENERIC STRUCTUR-NYA
AN UNLUCKY DAY
ORIENTATION	One morning I got up with the feeling that the day was going to be an unlucky one for me. How right it was! I found that it was already 06:15 am.
EVENT  1	I rushed into the bathroom. I did not see a piece of soap lying on the floor. I stepped on it and slipped, almost breaking my back in the process.
EVENT  2	Then, I went into dinning room for my breakfast. I gulped down the tea without realizing that it was very hot. It burnt my tongue. I spat it out and could not eat anything because my tongue hurt. I got dressed and rushed to the bus stop.      Unfortunately, I just missed the bus. My heart sank and I knew that I would be late for school.
EVENT  3	When I reached school, my name was taken down by the teacher. The teacher scolded me for being late. To my humiliation, I was made to stand outside the class. I was so upset by the incidents that I could not study properly. But worse was to come.
EVENT  4	After school, I was on my way home when something hard hit me on the head. Some one had thrown a bag of fish bones out of the window and it landed on me! I was boiling with rage but could do nothing. However, luckily for me, this only one raised a small lump on my head.
REORIENTATION	I managed to reach home safe and sound, and did not dare to go out again for the rest of the day.

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CONTOH TEKS SPOOF 1

CONTOH TEKS SPOOF DAN ANALISIS GENERIC STRUCTUR-NYA
ORIENTATION	Peter Judd joined the army when he was eighteen, and for several months he was taught how to be a good soldier. He did quite well in everything except shooting.
EVENT 1	One day, he and his friend were practicing their shooting, all of them were doing quite well except Peter. After he had shot at the target nine times and had not hit it once, the officer who was trying to teach the young soldiers to shoot said, ”You are quite hopeless, Peter! Don’t waste your last ballet too! Go behind that wall and shoot yourself with it!”
EVENT 2	Peter felt ashamed. He went behind the wall, and a few seconds later the officer and the other young soldiers heard the sound of a shot. “Heavens!” the officer said. “Has that silly man really shot himself?”
TWIST	He ran behind the wall anxiously, but Peter was alright. “I am sorry, Sir,” he said, “but I missed again.”

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