Narrative Text, Pengertian, Fungsi Sosial, Struktur dan Unsur Kebahasaan

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Sahabat Sangkolan, Berikut ini adalah Materi Narrative Text, Pengertian, Fungsi Sosial, Struktur dan Unsur Kebahasaan.

Narrative text adalah jenis teks yang menghubungkan rangkaian kejadian dan berisi

tentang cerita fiksi maupun non fiksi. Dua bentuk teks tersebut menggunakan bahasa

imajinatif dan mengekspresikan emosi. Tujuan teks Narrative adalah untuk menghibur

pembaca dan menceritakan kisah yang terjadi di masa lampau. Ada beberapa jenis teks

Narrative antara lain: legend, fairy tale, fable, a journey or a voyage, folk tales. Namun, pada

pembahasan ini difokuskan pada cerita legenda.

Narrative Text, Pengertian, Fungsi Sosial, Struktur dan Unsur Kebahasaan

Fungsi Sosial teks Narrative:

 Menghibur

 Memberi pelajaran atau informasi

 Merubah opini sosial

Struktur teks Narrative:

1. Orientation:

Menyeting awal cerita dan memperkenalkan karakternya (who, when, what, and

where).

2. Complication (problem arises followed by other problem):

Menguraikan tentang masalah pada cerita dan bagaimana karakter utama

menyelesaikan permasalahan. Bagian ini meliputi situasi, kegiatan atau kejadian

kejadian yang menimbulkan masalah/ kompleks sampai pada klimaksnya yang dapat

dilihat ketika krisis muncul.

3. Resolution:

Krisis menurun biasanya ke arah yang lebih baik namun dapat pula lebih buruk.

4. Reorientation (optional)

Biasanya menunjukkan akhir dari cerita biasanya akhir yang menyenangkan atau

menyedihkan.

Unsur kebahasaan teks Narrative:

 Simple Past tense
 Noun phrase
 Time connectives dan conjunctions seperti: however, although, later, then.
 Adverbs and adverbial phrases menerangkan tempat dan waktu kejadian seperti once upon a time, long time ago.
 Action verbs (kata kerja aksi) menunjukkan satu aksi seperti: stood, explained, smashed.
 Saying and thinking verbs menunjukkan apa yang dirasakan/dipikirkan/dikatakan si karakter seperti: told, realized, decided.

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Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story using past tense.

The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.

Function:

 To entertain the readers.
 To teach or inform.
 To change social opinion

The Generic Structure of Narrative text:

Orientation

It set the scene and introduce the participants (it answers the question: who, when, what, and where)

Complication

Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them. This part includes situations, activities, or events that lead problem/complicationto the climax. It shows when the crisis arise

Resolution

The crisis is revolved, for better or worse. It shows the end of the story, usually a happy ending

Re-orientation

(optional) The ending of the story.

Other Generic Structures of Narrative text:

Evaluation
(optional) The stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral message of the story

Coda
(optional) changes of the characters of lesson/value of the story.

The Grammatical Features of Narrative Texts:

Adjectives to build noun groups to describe the people, animals or things in the story, such as … a nice, diligent and kind-hearted man, etc.
Time connectives and conjunctions to sequence events through time, such as however, although, later, then.
Adverbs and adverbial phrases to locate the particular events, such as once upon a time, long time ago.
Action verbs to indicate the actions, such as stood, explained, provided, smashed
Saying and thinking verbs to indicate what characters are feeling thinking or saying, such as told, realized, decided’
Past Tense

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