* Definition of Narrative (sosial function)
- A piece of text which tells a story to deal with actual or imaginative experiences in different ways, and in doing so entertain or informs the reader or listener.
* Generic Strukture (+explanation)
- Orientation
- To inform and introduce the reader about where, when, to whom the incident occurred.
- Complication
- Tells the cause or the emergence of a problem that made of actors present in the story.
- Sequence of events
- Tells about how to deal the existing problem (climax).
- Resolution
- Tells about how the solution to the problem.
- Coda
- Moral values contained in the story.
- Usually begins with a description as follows.
- Once upon a time, once, one day, one afternoon, and others. description does not state a specific time.
- Specific participant
- Character in the story is to be specific, rather than general.
- For example: cinderella, the king, the farmer, jack
- To clarify the use of the adjective noun.
- For example, be used for the following expression: a beautiful lady, an old man, a poor widow, etc..
- Use the simple past tense sentence patterns
- Sentence patterns used are simple past for telling what happened in the past the. But did not rule out using other forms such as simple present tense used in the sentence immediately.
- Time conjunction
- To connect with one another groove to trace and easy to follow.
- conjunction that is often used is: when, then, suddenly, next etc.
- Action verbs
- There are verbs that show an activity (activity can be seen).
- For example: run, sleep, walk, cut etc.
- Direct and indirect speech / phrases direct and indirect
- To make the story feel more alive, use this sentence pattern that looks phrase speaker
* Example
- CINDERELLAOnce upon a time, there was a young girl named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother and two step sisters.
The step mother and sisters were conceited and bad tempered. They treated Cinderella very badly. Her step mother made Cinderella do the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family. The two step sisters, on the other hand, did not work about the house. Their mother gave them many handsome dresses to wear.
One day, the two step sister received an invitation to the ball that the king’s son was going to give at the palace. They were excited about this and spent so much time choosing the dresses they would wear. At last, the day of the ball came, and away went the sisters to it. Cinderella could not help crying after they had left.
“Why are crying, Cinderella?” a voice asked. She looked up and saw her fairy godmother standing beside her, “because I want so much to go to the ball” said Cinderella. “Well” said the godmother,”you’ve been such a cheerful, hardworking, uncomplaining girl that I am going to see that you do go to the ball”.
Magically, the fairy godmother changed a pumpkin into a fine coach and mice into a coachman and two footmen. Her godmother tapped Cinderella’s raged dress with her wand, and it became a beautiful ball gown. Then she gave her a pair of pretty glass slippers. “Now, Cinderella”, she said; “You must leave before midnight”. Then away she drove in her beautiful coach.
Cinderella was having a wonderfully good time. She danced again and again with the king’s son. Suddenly the clock began to strike twelve, she ran toward the door as quickly as she could. In her hurry, one of her glass slipper was left behind.
A few days later, the king’ son proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted theglass slipper. Her step sisters tried on the slipper but it was too small for them, no matter how hard they squeezed their toes into it. In the end, the king’s page let Cinderella try on the slipper. She stuck out her foot and the page slipped the slipper on. It fitted perfectly.
Finally, she was driven to the palace. The king’s son was overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after.
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