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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