NARRATIVE TEXT

BY :DILLA SISKA
ANGGRAINI
WHAT IS NARRATIVE TEXT?

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story

that past tense. The purpose of the text is toentertain or
to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.
 THE GENERIC STRUCTURE OF NARRATIVE TEXT :

1.Orientation :It set the scene and introduce the

participants (it answers the question : who,when,
what, and where).
2.Complication : Tells the problems of the story and
how the main characters solve them.
3.Resolution : The crisis is revolved, for better or
worse.
4.Re-orientation : The ending of the story. Maybe,
happy ending or sad ending.
5.Evaluation : The stepping back to evaluate the story
or the moral message of the story
 LINGUISTIC FEATURES :
1. Use active verbs.
2. Use past tense.
3. Use conjunction (and, then, after that, next, etc)
Also Temporal conjunction, like: once upon a
time, one day, long time ago, …
4. The first person (I or We) or the third person
(He, She, or They).
5. Use specific nouns.
6. Use adjective and adverbs
 Kind of Narrative text :
• Legend
• Fable
• Fairy tale
• Folktale
• Short story
• Real-life drama
• Classic
• Fantasy
• Adventure
• Science
• Fiction
• Myth
• Mystery
Alhamdulillah jaza kumullohu khoro 

ASSALAMU ‘ALAIKUM WR.WB