Narrative Text

Prida Lusiawati, S.Pd.,Gr

Narrative Text

Narrative Text 1

a Read the following dialogue

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 Sumatra. it was 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 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 the class for further
discussion.

Anna : Okay. Let's go.

b Answer the questions

1. What is the dialogue about?

2. Where does the conversation take place?

3. Who is Putri Hijau?

4. Where is the origin of the story?

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Narrative Text 2

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 opinio

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/complication to 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 element of Narrative text are topic, setting,
character, plot

A narrative text usually:
uses the past tense
uses direct and direct speech
uses time connectives

Read the following text carefully. Pay attention to the text 3
structure

The owl and the Grasshopper

The owl always sleeps during the day. Then after sundown, when the
rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly through the woo,
out she comes ruffling and blinking from the old hollow tree. Now, her weird
"hoo-hoo-hoo-oo-oo" echoes through the quiet wood, and she begins her
hunts for the bugs and beetles, frogs and mice she so much likes to eat.

Now there was a certain old Owl who had become very cross and hard
to please as she grew older, especially if anything disturbed her daily
slumbers. One warm summer afternoon, as she dozed away in her den in the
old oak tree, a Grasshopper nearby began a joyous but very raspy song.
Out popped the old Owl's head from the opening in the tree that served her
both for door and for window.

"Get away from here, sir," she said to the Grasshopper. "Have you no
manners? You should at least respect my age and leave me to sleep in
quiet!"

But the Grasshopper answered saucily that he had as much right to his
place in the sun as the Owl had to her place in the old oak. Then he struck
up a louder and still more rasping tune.

The wise old Owl knew quite well that it would do no good to argue
with the Grasshopper, nor with anybody else for that matter. Besides, her
eyes were not sharp enough by day to permit her to punish the Grasshopper
as he deserved. So she laid aside all hard words and spoke very kindly to
him.

"Well sir," she said, "If I must stay awake, I am going to settle right
down to enjoy your singing. Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine
here, sent to me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo drinks before he
sings for the high gods. Please come up and taste this delicious drink with
me. I know it will make you sing like Apollo himself."

The foolish Grasshopper was taken in by the Owl's flattering words. Up
he jumped, to the Owl's den, but as soon as he was near enough that the
old Owl could see him clearly, she pounced upon him and ate him up.

(from Aesop for children, RAND MCNALLY & CO, CHICAGO, The Project Gutenberg Ebook, Release
December 2, 2006)

Fill in the table. You may look up your dictionary 4

No Words Part of Speech Meaning
1 ruffle



2 blink
3 cross


4 weird


5 slumber


6 doze away


7 joyous


8 raspy


9 popped


10 saucity


11 strike up


12 foolish


13 den


14 pounce

a Read the text again. Fill in the blank 5

The
owl and the Grassho
pper

1.Topis :

2. Character :

3. Setting :

4. Problem/Complication :

5. Resolution :

b Comprehension questions. Answer the following questions

1.What is the text about?
2.What is the owl's habit?
3.What does the old owl look like?
4.What does the grasshopper look like?
5.Why did the owl rebuke the grasshopper?
6.Why did the grasshopper stop singing? why?
7.Why did the owl invite the grasshopper to her den?
8. Who is Apollo?
9.What happened to the grasshopper in the end?
10.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

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