NARATIVE TEXT

NARATIVE TEXT

#Definisi Narrative Text

Pasti di antara kalian sering membaca tulisan fiksi dalam bentuk cerpen, novel, atau buku cerita bukan? Dalam Bahasa Indonesia, tulisan-tulisan ini disebut sebagai teks narasi yang bertujuan untuk menghibur para pembacanya. Sama halnya dengan Bahasa Inggris.

Narrative text merupakan sebuah tulisan yang  biasanya disampaikan secara kronologis. Target pembaca dari narrative text berbeda-beda. Jika ditargetkan untuk anak-anak balita sampai dengan sekolah dasar, biasanya cerita akan memiliki nilai-nilai positif yang dapat dipetik. Kalau target pembaca adalah remaja dan orang dewasa, maka cerita cenderung lebih panjang dan kompleks. Genre narrative text juga beragam, di antaranya adalah:

* Fairytale 

* Fable

* Myth

* History

* Romance

* Horror

Struktur Narrative Text

Struktur dari narrative text berfokus pada serangkaian tahapan yang diusulkan untuk membangun sebuah teks ini sendiri. Secara umum, terdapat empat tahapan dalam Narrative text, yaitu:

1.Orientation

Orientation atau biasa disebut dengan pendahuluan, berisi tentang siapa, kapan, di mana suatu cerita ditetapkan.

2.Complication

Complication menceritakan awal masalah yang menyebabkan puncak masalah atau yang biasa disebut dengan klimaks. Bagian ini biasanya melibatkan karakter utama dari cerita tersebut.

3.Resolution

Bagian ini adalah akhir dari cerita atau berupa solusi dari masalah yang terjadi. Masalah dapat diselesaikan dapat menjadi lebih baik atau malah lebih buruk yang nantinya akan membuat cerita berakhir dengan bahagia atau sebaliknya.

Terkadang, ada beberapa resolusi yang berupa masalah lain untuk dipecahkan. Hal ini sengaja dibuat oleh penulis untuk menambah dan mempertahankan minat dan ketegangan bagi pembacanya. Biasanya, jenis resolusi ini terdapat pada genre mysteries dan horror.

4.Re-orientation

Bagian adalah penutup dari suatu cerita yang bersifat opsional. Re-orientation bisa berisi tentang pelajaran moral, saran atau pengajaran dari penulis.

Ciri Kebahasan Narrative Text

Pada Narrative Text, terdapat beberapa ciri-ciri antara lain sebagai berikut :

1.Mengunakan Action Verb dalam bentuk Past Misalnya :     Climbed, Turned, Brought, dsb.

2.Menggunakan Nouns tertentu sebagai kata ganti orang,     hewan dan benda tertentu dalam Misalnya : the king,         the queen, dsb.

3.Menggunakan Adjectives yang membentuk noun                 Misalnya : long black hair, two red apples, dsb.

4.Menggunakan Time Connectives dan Conjunctions             untuk mengurutkan kejadian-kejadian. Misalnya : then,       before, after, soon, dsb.

5.Menggunakan Adverbs dan Adverbial Phrase untuk             menunjukkan lokasi kejadian atau peristiwa. Misalnya :     here, in the mountain, happily ever after,

The Lion

       One  day, the lion met an elephant and told him what he was afraid of. The elephant laughed and said, “ How can a cock’s crow scare you ? You are the king of animal. A cock is only a small animal. “ The lion left fell very embarrassed.

       Just then a mosquito came ang began circling the elephant’s head.The elephant became very scared and screamed. “ if it gets into my ears, I will die.” He tried to fight the mosquito with his trunk , but it didn’t give up. He finally run way.

       Seeing this, the lion laughed very loudly and said , “ The mosquito is far smaller than the cock , yet you are afraid of it very much,”

1. What happened to the lion when he heard a cock                crowed? 

    a. He was amused     c. he felt afraid

    b. He was very sad    d. he ran way

2. What is the lesson taken from the story ?

     a. We should be afrraid of the lion

     b. We have to help other people

     c. We have to be aware of other people

     d. We should not look down on other people

CINDERELLA

        Once upon a  time there was irl called Ci nderella. She lived with her stepsisters. They were very bossy . She had to do all the housework.

        One day there was party at the palacxe. All were invited. Her stepsisters would not let her go with them. Cinderella was sad.

        The Fairy Godmother came and helped her go to the ball. Cinderella danced with the Prince. After while , the clock stroke twelve. She left her smelly shoes and went home .

        After that , her name changed into Cindersmella.

1. Which part explains resolution ?

     a. First paragraph

     b. Second paragraph

     c. Third paragraph

     d. Fourth paragraph

2. Why does her name change into Cindersmella ?                   because….

     a. She is smelly

     b. Her shoes are smelly

     c. She likes smelly shoes

     d. She leff her smelly shoes

  3. They were very bossy. What does “ They “ refer to in             this sentence ? They refers to …

       a. Cinderella

       b. Godmother

       c. Stepsisters

       d. The Prince

                         Beauty and The Beast

                       Pict taken from theonion.com

        Once upon a time there was a prince. He was good looking and very rich. He lived in a beautiful castle together with his knights and servants.

        One rainy dark night, a woman came to his castle. She was old and ugly. The prince didn't like her and sent her away. After he sent the woman away, she turned into a beautiful fairy. She cast a spell over the prince and his castle. The prince became a beast. He was no longer good looking. He looked very ugly instead and all his servants turned into furniture.

        One day, an old man named Maurice was traveling past the castle. It was raining so hard that he decided to enter the castle. When the beast saw him, he captured him. After sometime Maurice's daughter, Belle began to worry about him.

         She started to look for him. Finally, she arrived in the castle and she found her father there. She asked the beast to let her father go but he refused. Belle, then, agreed to stay in the castle so that her father could go home.

         While Belle was staying at the castle the beast slowly changed. He was not meant anymore. Belle began to like him and finally they fell in love with each other. Right after she declared her love for him the spell was broken. The beast and her servants became human again.Then, the beast and Belle got married. They lived happily ever after.

Answer the questions based on the text above!

   1. Based on the text the writer writes the text in 

       order to ....

      a. Entertain the reader with the story

      b. Inform about a good looking and very rich prince

      c. Describe about a prince and a woman

      d. Express her/his opinion about the story

    2. How is the ending of the story?

        a. Tragic

        b. Painful

        c. Unpleasant

        d. Delighted

     3. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

         a. The beast and her servants became human again

         b. Belle found her father in the castle

         c. Belle and beast got married and live happily

         d. Belle and beast stayed in the castle

     4. Why did the prince send away the woman who 

         came to his castle?

         a. She wanted to steal in the castle

         b. She wanted to kill the prince

         c. She was old and bad looking

         d. She was a beggar and the prince dislike her

     5. “When the beast saw him, he captured him” 

         The underlined word has similar in meaning to ....

         a. Caught

         b. Pushed

         c. Released

         d. Lost

     Poor Mr Lebai (Pak Lebai Malang) - a Folktale

                         fromWest Sumatra

         A long time ago, a man called Mr Lebai lived on a river bank in a village in West Sumatra.

         One day, he received two party invitations-one from a villager upstream and another one downstream. The two parties' locations were far from each other. However, the parties were to take place exactly at the same time. 

         Not wanting to miss both parties, he started rowing his boat downstream for he knew that the food there was very delicious. In the middle of his journey, he stopped. Mr Lebai remembered that the host of the upstream usually gave more food to the guests, so he turned his boat back and started to row upstream. After rowing for several minutes, he stopped again.  He remembered that the downstream host was a generous man. Mr Lebai thought that if he got there early, he would get a delicious buffalo head. He turned back to go to the downstream village.