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Narrative Text: What A Hell Is This?????????

This document provides information about narrative text and its language features. Narrative text is used for entertainment and amusement through fiction stories. It typically follows a structure including an orientation, complication, climax, and resolution. Examples of narrative genres include folktales, fables, fairytales, legends, and myths. The document then provides a short narrative story as an example, about a slave named Babu who escapes into a forest and befriends a lion after helping remove a thorn from its paw. The language features of narratives include the use of action verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, past tense, conjunctions, reported speech, and passive voice.

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84 views6 pages

Narrative Text: What A Hell Is This?????????

This document provides information about narrative text and its language features. Narrative text is used for entertainment and amusement through fiction stories. It typically follows a structure including an orientation, complication, climax, and resolution. Examples of narrative genres include folktales, fables, fairytales, legends, and myths. The document then provides a short narrative story as an example, about a slave named Babu who escapes into a forest and befriends a lion after helping remove a thorn from its paw. The language features of narratives include the use of action verbs, adverbs, adjectives, nouns, past tense, conjunctions, reported speech, and passive voice.

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NARRATIVE TEXT

What a hell is
this?????????
Narrative is kind of text that’s
used to entertain and amuse the
readers. It is a fiction text.

Language Features:
-The use of action
Generic structure verbs
Kinds : (steps) : -The use of adverbs,
1.Folktales a.Orientation adjective, and noun
(dongeng) b.Complication phrase
2. Fable c.Climax -The use of past forms
(dongeng d.Resolution -The use of
binatang) (conclusion) conjunctions
3. Fairytales e.Reorientation – -The use of reported
4. Legend optional (moral speech
5. Myth value) -The use of passive
voice
Babu and the Lion
One day, there was a slave whose name was Babu. His master was very,
very bad. You know, he often punched Babu and did not offer him food
for days. Poor Babu! So he escaped into a forest and slept in a cave.
(ORIENTATION)

Next morning, he heard a loud roar. In front of him...., at the mouth of


the cave..., was a very big lion. You see, Babu was scared to death! Kind
of scary, isn’t it? But he could not escape. But the lion didn’t attack him.
It was tame. (COMPLICATION)

There was a large thorn in its right front foot. The lion lookedat Babu. It
seemed to say something like:”Please help me. It’s very painful.” Babu
walked bravely to the lion and pulled out the thorn.
(CLIMAX)
Babu and the lion turned out to be friends. (RESOLUTION)
(Adapted from GB Shaw’s play: Androcles and the
Lion)
Babu and the Lion
One day, there was a slave whose name was Babu. His master
was very, very bad. You know, he often punched Babu
(Adj) (S. PAST TENSE)
and did not offer him food for days. Poor Babu! So he escaped
into a forest and slept in a cave. (CONJUNCTION)
Next morning, he heard a loud roar. In front of him...., at the
(ADVERB)
mouth of the cave..., was a very big lion. You see, Babu
(noun phrase)
was scared to death! Kind of scary, isn’t it? But he could not
escape. But the lion didn’t attack him. It was tame. There was
a large thorn in its right front foot. The lion looked at Babu. It
seemed to say something like:”Please help me. It’s very
painful.” (Reported speech)
Babu walked bravely to the lion and pulled out the thorn.
Babu and the lion turned out to be friends.

(Adapted from GB Shaw’s play: Androcles and the


Lion)
What….?????
Still
confuse????
OK…. Let’s
check this
out!! ..\video
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What about
now???? Do you
understand
about this
text????

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