NARRATIVE TEXT PART 2

Zulfa Faturullah Hermansyah (36)

XII IPS 2

NARRATIVE TEXT PART 2

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Generic Structure of Narrative Text

Orientation

Orientation is an opening text that introduces who the characters are involved in the incident (who) and the time and place (where). This orientation is located in the first paragraph of the narrative text.

Resolution

Resolution is the paragraph that ends the story. In this section, there is a settlement that makes the storyline end. Every problem that arises must have a solution, it can be closed with a happy ending or a tragic or sad ending.

Reorientation

Reorientation is a closing sentence that tells the last condition of the character in the story or the moral message of the story.

Language Features of Narrative Text

1. Using Simple Past Tense

2. Action verbs 

namely action verbs or types of verbs that show an action that appears, including activities, processes and momentary actions. It is used to tell what the characters in the story do.

3. Prepositional phrases

Prepositional phrases used to indicate the time and location of events and adjectives that make up noun phrases.

4. Adjective

by using adjectives, we can explain the characteristics of the characters in the story.

Type of adjective

Opinion Adjectives

General : good, bad, beautiful, etc

More Specific : comfortable, clean, expensive, etc

Descriptive Adjectives

Size: small, big, etc

Age : old, young, etc

Shape : round, square, etc

Color : green, red, etc

Origin : American, Japanese, etc

Material: leather, metal, plastic, etc

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