NARRATIVE TEXTS

A narrative text tell a story from a particular of view and can be pretend using words, images and or sounds.

Its purpose is to narrate events, entertain and engage the reader in imaginative experience. Narratives can also be used to teach, persuade and inform the reader.

Generic Structure of NarrativeA narrative text will consists of the following structure:

1. Orientation : Introducing the participants and informing time and place2. Complication : describes events that lead to a problem 3. Resolution : that describe how and why the complication is resolved4. Coda/reorientation : that ties up loose ends (optional)

Language Features of Narrative• The use of noun phrase a beautiful princess, a huge temple• The use of connectives First, before, that, then, finally• The use of adverbial phrase of time and place Two days ago, in the garden.• Simple past tense  He walked away from the village• Material processes / action verbs Material processes are process of material doing. e.g walk, sleep, wake up• Verbal processes / Saying verb Verbal processes are processes of saying, or more accurately, of symbolically signaling.  e.g say, tell, ask, explain, announce• Mental Processes Mental processes are mental, covert kinds of goings-on.- Thinking verbs: think, understand, assume, conclude, discover, consider, doubt, believe.- Feeling verbs: love, enjoy, hate, dislike, regret, fear, like, prefer- Verbs of sense: see, notice, observe, feel, smell, taste, watch, hear, listen.

Example :

 The Story of Hare and Tortoise

There was once an arrogant hare who wanted to prove that he was better than everybody else, so he chose the slowest animal in the county, the tortoise, and invited him to a five mile race.The tortoise accepted his challenge and trained hard for the event, while the hare walked around boasting that he was going to humiliate the tortoise and make him look stupid.The day of the race dawned. The tortoise set off at a slow and steady pace, while the hare was dancing around laughing at him; other animals were laughing too, including the rabbit, the badger, and even the little hedgehog.The hare became exhausted from all his dancing around, so he decided to have a nap. When he awoke, he realised that a few hours had passed and the tortoise was nowhere to be seen. The hare panicked and ran the whole course as fast as he could, which was very fast indeed.As he reached the top of the final hill, he could see the finish line in the distance, with the tortoise walking slowly across it, the victor.

Generic StructureAs we all know that a narrative should explore problems among the charracters which lead into an interesting plot of the story. This plot determine the narrative story whether it runs smoothly or not. Well, the following note is the generic structure from the story of Hare and Tortoise.Orientation: It clearly states that the participants are the hare and the tortoise who live in once time.Complication: From the second, third, and forth parragraphs, we see that the major complication is set by the arogant hare. In the firs scene, hare and his suppoeters tried to humiliate tortoise while in the same time the tortoise was practicing hard. Because hare thought it was safe, he took a nap, but that was his big mistake.Resolution: The story of hare and tortoise is closed with the scene of tortoise winning the race. It was a bed and sad ending for hare but it was the victory of tortoise.

Narrative Text: Moral Value

What we can catch for above narrative text in the story of hare and tortoise is that we feel entertained with the fable story, animals do like we do. The second thing we get the point is that "fast" is not always winning but "slow" and steady is winning in the end.

DESCRIPTIVEDescriptive text is a text which say what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

Generic Structure of DescriptiveIdentification: It identifies a certain object to be described. Description:  It is a part of paragraph which describes the character.

Descriptive Text: The Beautiful Kuta Bali

Kuta is the exciting tourist area on the southern part of Bali.  Most tourists visiting Bali do not forget to spend their time in Kuta

It is located in southwestern Bali, just minutes from the airport.

Kuta is one of the world's most famous beaches. It first attracted Western surfers with its world renowned surf break followed closely behind by sun worshipers and party goers attracted to its wide stretches of white sandy beach.

Kuta is the center of night life activities. Kuta has a shopping mecca, with its lines of shops, boutiques, and galleries. Restaurants line up the streets as well as the beachfront hotels, ranging from a small, inexpensive homestay to a luxurious resort

There are many night clubs along Jalan Legian and Jalan Pantai Kuta. The busiest time for all night clubs are around from 22:00 and will close until down.

The Generic Structure: Kuta Bali Beach

Identification: In sample It is about the Kuta Bali beach.

Description: In this sample, Kuta bali beach is described as a location in Southern Bali which is just minute from the airport. It also described as the place of beautiful place for surfers. Kuta Bali beach is also described as the  center of night life activities.

Language Features of Descriptive

• The use of adjective and

a beautiful princess, a huge temple• The use of connectives First, before, that, then, finally• The use of adverbial phrase of time and place Two days ago, in the garden.• Simple past tense  He walked away from the village• Material processes / action verbs Material processes are process of material doing. e.g walk, sleep, wake up• Verbal processes / Saying verb Verbal processes are processes of saying, or more accurately, of symbolically signaling.  e.g say, tell, ask, explain, announce• Mental Processes Mental processes are mental, covert kinds of goings-on.- Thinking verbs: think, understand, assume, conclude, discover, consider, doubt, believe.- Feeling verbs: love, enjoy, hate, dislike, regret, fear, like, prefer- Verbs of sense: see, notice, observe, feel, smell, taste, watch, hear, listen.