NARRATIVE TEXT

Dahulu kala di sebuah negeri nun jauh, hiduplah raja dan ratu yang sangatlah kaya raya. Selain kaya raya mereka juga sangat dicintai oleh rakytanya … Hmm ga usah dsambung yah … Nah penggalan cerita di atas masuk ke teks apan tuh? Hayo jenis teks apaan? Iuupp !! itulah dia NARRATIVE TEXT. Mau tau lebih nih? Nyok gulir ke bawah,pahami,cermati dan resapi. Selamat Belajar!

Definition

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain the readers about the story.

Language Features

·         Using past tense

·         Using active verbs

·         Using conjunction

·         The first person (I or We) or the third person (He, She, or They)

·         Using specific nouns

·         Using adjective and adverbs

Kind of Narrative

·         Legend  : Malin Kundang, Sangkuriang etc

·         Fable     : Mouse deer and crocodile

·         Fairy tale : Snow White, Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, etc.

·         Science fiction

Example Text

Rabbit and Bear

       Once upon a time, there lived as neighbours, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit is a good shot. In contrary, the bear is always clumsy ad could not use the arrow to good advantage.

      One day, the bear called over the rabbit and asked the rabbit to take his bow and arrows and came with bear to the other side of the hill. The rabbit was fearing to arouse the bear's anger so he could not refuse it. He consented and went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed he shot and killed so many that there was lots of meat left after the bear and his family had loaded themselves and packed all they could carry home.

      The bear was very gluttonous and did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat. Th e rabbit could not even taste the blood from the butchering as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. The poor rabbit would have to go home hungry after his hard day's work.

     The bear was the father of five children. The youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. He was very hearty eater. The mother bear always gave him an extra large piece of meat but the youngest child did not eat it. He would take it outside with him and pretended to play ball with the meat. He kicked toward the rabbit's house and when he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick. The meat would fly into the rabbit's house. In this way, the poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear.