narrative text

NARRATIVE TEXT.

Narrative text has a social function. The social function is to entertain or amuse the reader or listener.
Below is the example of narrative text.

Have you read the story? It tells about Snow White. However, the story is different with the story you have known. The conflict is very simple, but you are still entertained, right?
Now, we’ll discuss about the generic structure of narrative text. Commonly, there are three parts of text in narrative. Those are ORIENTATION, COMPLICATION, and RESOLUTION. However some narrative stories have a COD
THE GENERIC STRUCTURE

• ORIENTATION

             It tells the audience about who is in the story, when the story is taking place and where  the action is happening.

• COMPLICATION

             It sets off a chain of events that influence what will happen in the story.

• RESOLUTION

             The characters finally sort out the complication.

• CODA

It contains moral values.
Here the generic structure of Snow White
After we discuss about the definition, social function, and generic structure of narrative, now you will learn about language features of narrative.
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.

Well, you have known about the definition, social function, generic structure, and language structures of narrative. Do you understand?? Do my explanation answer your question? If you don’t understand the material, you can ask me in our meeting or send me e-mail (devaniqua_pika@yahoo.co.id).
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recount text

 List of Examples (Recount Text)

Assalamualaikum Wr. Wb.

Today I'm going to share some examples about Recount Text. As we know, this text is very popular in our life, Recount text may be our note, personal diary, or social activity. First what is Recount text?

Let me answer with simple one, Recount Text is a text which retells events or experiences in the past chronologically. This text describes about the writer's personal experience which truly happens in his or her life. The experience may be horror, fun, etc.

The purpose or the social function of Recount text is to retell or to inform the reader about what was happened to the writer with series of events.

 The generic structures of Recount Text:

1. Orientation       : In orientation, the paragraph usually introduces the participants, who are being involved in the text.
2. Events                  : Usually there are many events may be occurred in Recount text, events may be started in the first paragraph, so it is not always started in the second paragraph. The events usually started with time signals, such as; first, second, then, finally, etc.
3. Reorientation     : It is the closure of the events. Reorientation is optional, some text may not include this. If there is, usually in the last paragraph.

The language features of Recount Text

Language features is a characteristic of a text, to make it is easily recognized, what tense is used, and so on. 

1. Introducing the participants
2. Using chronological conjunctions, such as; first, second, then, etc.
3. Using action verb, such as; went, arrived, ate, jumped, etc
4. The important one is, using simple present tense.

The examples of Recount Text:

#1

A Day Visit to Yogyakarta

Last week, I went to Yogyakarta with my family. My father drove the car. My mother sat beside him. My sister and I sat in the back seats.

We woke up early in the morning. My father prepared the car in the garage while mother was preparing food for breakfast and some snacks for us. My sister and I packed some clothes. After everything got ready and we had our breakfast, we left the house at six o'clock.

It was about nine A.M. We arrived at Yogyakarta. First of all we visited our uncle. We stayed there for an hour. Then we went to Parangtritis beach. We got there at eleven o'clock. There were a lot of tourists because it was holiday. I saw many foreign visitors too. My parents watched us playing with sand in the beach. We did not swim and take a bath since the wave was rough. After having lunch, we went on our picnic to the museum and Malioboro shopping centre.

We drove back to Semarang at 7 o'clock and arrived home at ten. We were tired but happy.

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