NARRATIVE TEXT

Hai everyone, back with my blog. So today we gonna talk about narrative text. Let's se my practice and explanation about narrative text

Narrative text is a type of text in English to tell a story that has a series of connected chronological events. The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader about a story or stories.

Narrative text can be imaginary or factual. The following is an example of the genre of Narrative text:

Fairy Tale

Mystery

Science fiction

romance

Horror

Fable

Myths and legends

History

Slice of life

Personal experience. 

Narrative Text Features

- Using Action Verbs in Past Tenses.

- Using certain nouns as personal pronouns.

- Using adjectives that form a noun phrase.

- Use conjunctions to order events.

Narrative text structure

- orientation

- complication

- resolution

- reorientation

And now lets move on to my practice!! 

Practice 1: 

Practice the following dialog and answer the questions below:

Anna : Have you ever heard a story about The Green Princess?

Jane : Oh, yeah, I once heard about the story from the tour guide when I visited the Maimoon Palace in Medan, North Sumatera. It was such a wonderful story that made my imagination went back through the time. The guide was very good at telling the story.

Anna : Why do people in there call her Putri Hijau?

Jane : She was called the Green Princess because her body always 

emitted a green light, especially if she was playing in the park during the full moon.

 Anna : She must be very beautiful. That’s why the Sultan was infatuated with her beauty.

Jane : Absolutely… ok Let’s go to class for further discussion

Anna : Okay … Let’s go

Answer the questions:

1. What is the dialogue about?

= a story about The Green Princess

2. Where does the converstion take place?

= it take place in school

3. Who is Putri Hijau?

= She was called the Green Princess because her body always 

emitted a green light, especially if she was playing in the park during the full moon.

4. Where is the origin of the story?

= Medan, North Sumatera

Practice 2:

observe and determine

(place the text position into the table and color it where necessary):

1. Social Function

2. Text structure

3. Language features (Simple Past tense, Noun phrase, time connectives and

conjunctions, adverbs and adverbial phrases, action verbs, saying and thinking verbs)

1.orientation

In days of yore, when Shah Mukhayat Sultan of Aceh was resting in the palace, suddenly he saw a green light from the East. The Sultan immediately called his vizier and asked what the light was. The vizier was also shocked and could not answer the Sultan's question. Only the next morning a Sultan's confidant was sent to investigate the light. The results of the investigation said that the light came from the body of the Green Princess in the Old Deli. It was said that the princess was the daughter of the Deli Kingdom - Sultan Sulaiman. When he died, he left three children. The eldest was named Mambang Jazid, the second was Putri Hijau (The Green Princess), and the last one was Mambang Khayali. The sons and daughter of Sultan Sulaiman were considered by his people as the incarnation of the gods. They were adored as magical people. The Green Princess herself was a beautiful woman. She was called the Green Princess because her body always emitted a green light, especially if she was playing in the park during the full moon.

~Languange features

- When

- the Sultan's question 

- In days of yore

2. Complication

Having heard the story, Sultan Mukhayat Syah then fell in love, even though the Sultan had never seen the princess' face before. Having feeling infatuated to the Princess, he, accompanied by his bodyguards, left for Deli to propose the daughter of the Old Deli Kingdom.

… 

In the chaotic situation, the Green Princess immediately returned to her glass coffin so that when the waves hit the ship, she could float on the sea. The Dragon immediately slid closer to the coffin and lifted the coffin with his head and carried her to the Straits of Malacca. The movement was so fast that the Sultan could not do anything.

~languange features

- the Old Deli Kingdom

- returned to her glass coffin

- Having feeling infatuated 

3. Resolution

In the chaotic situation, the Green Princess immediately returned to her glass coffin so that when the waves hit the ship, she could float on the sea. The Dragon immediately slid closer to the coffin and lifted the coffin with his head and carried her to the Straits of Malacca. The movement was so fast that the Sultan could not do anything

~ language features

- float on the sea

- returned to her glass coffin and carried her 

 4. Reorientation

He could only dream, miss, and remember the Green Princess who was already his, but then, disappeared forever

~ languang features

Practice 3:

Make as many questions as possible, at least questions using the word Question who, what, when, where, why.

- who is Shah Mukhayat

  : Shah Mukhayat is the Sultan of Aceh

- what make Shah Mukhaya propose the daughter of the Old Deli Kingdom.

   :Sultan Mukhayat Syah then fell in love, even though the Sultan had never seen the princess' face before

- when does the story take the time? 

   : In days of yore

- where does shah mukhaya went to propose the green princess

   : the Old Deli Kingdom.

- why does the green princess called as the green princess

    : because she could make green light from her body