Narrative Text

1.  Definition of Narrative Text

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

2. Types of Narrative Text

Narrative text can be imaginary or factual. Here is an example of a genre from Narrative text:

a. Fairy tale

b. Mystery

c. Science fiction

d. Romance

e. Horror

f. Fable

g. Myth and legend

h. History

i. Slice of life

j. Personal experience

k. and so forth

3. Characteristics of Narrative Text

a. Using action verbs in the form of past tenses.

b. Using a specific noun as a pronoun.

c. Using the Adjective to form Noun Phrase.

d. Use the Conjunction to sort events.

4. Narrative Text Structure

The structure of the narrative text focuses on a series of stages that are proposed to build a text on its own.

In general, there are four stages in Narrative text, namely:

a. Orientation

Orientation or so-called introduction, contains about who, when, where a story is set.

b. Complication

Complication tells the beginning of the problem that causes the peak of the problem or what is commonly called the climax. This section usually involves the main character of the story.

c. Resolution

This section is the end of the story or in the form of a solution to the problem that occurred. Problems can be solved can be for better or even worse which will make the story end happily or vice versa.

Sometimes, there are resolutions which are other problems to solve. It is deliberately created by the author to increase and maintain interest and tension for the readers. Usually, this type of resolution is found in the mysteries and horror genres.

d. Re-orientation

The part is the closing of a story which is optional. Re-orientation can contain moral lessons, suggestions or teachings from the author.

Example Narrative Text

Cinderella

Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother and two step sisters. The step mother and her two daughters didn’t like Cinderella. They treated Cincerella very bad. Cinderella usually did the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family, and so on.

One day, a ball was to be held by the royal family of the kingdom to find the Prince’s spouse. Cinderella wanted to go to the ball but her step mother asked her to stay at home and do the house works. Cinderella cried. Then there was a fairy godmother standing beside her.

“Why are you crying, Cinderella?”, the fairy godmother asked.

“Because I want to go to the ball but my step mother insists me to stay at home. Besides, I don’t have any beautiful dress” said Cinderella.

Then the fairy turned Cinderella’s ugly dress became the most beautiful dress and with beautiful slippers. The fairy also turned a pumpkin into a parking coach and the mice become six white horses. Cinderella fiinally could go to the ball but she had to come back before midnight before the spell ended.

At the ball, Cinderella amazed everybody there include the Prince. The Prince asked her to dance. Cinderella had a wonderful time at the ball. But, all of a sudden, she heard the sound of a clock, the first stroke of midnight. Remembered what the fairy had said, Cinderella ran back to go home. But she lost one of her slippers in ballroom. The Prince picked up her slipper and would search for the girl whose foot fitted with the slipper.

A few days later, the Prince proclaimed that he would marry the girl whose feet fitted the 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 solder 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 Prince was overjoyed to see her again. They were married and live happily ever after.

Figure Of Speech

 

Understanding Figure of Speech

Figure of speech is a figurative expression commonly used in both written and spoken literacy. Figures of speech are commonly used to beautify words in poetry, poetry and prose.

However, not only those three, figures of speech are also often used on greeting cards, slogans, mottos and others.

In other words, figure of speech is a figure of speech in English. The function of the figure of speech itself is to replace several sentences to make them more beautiful and interesting.

In figure of speech and figure of speech, sentences that are written sometimes do not contain a literal meaning but are only as expressions.

Figure of Speech type

Alliteration

Alliteration is a figure of speech which has a function to beautify a sentence. Alliteration is characterized by the repetition of the same or similar sound at the beginning of each word in a series.

Example of alliteration:

She sells seashells (she sells sea shells)

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers (Peter Piper picked a few acad peppers)

Black bug bit a big black bear. (black insect bites a big black bear)

Sheep should sleep in a shed. (sheep must sleep in the pen)

Metaphor

Metaphors are figures of speech which usually contain a figure of speech in which words or phrases applied to an object cannot be taken literally.

Metaphor describes something as if it were something else as a parable, but still has the same meaning.

Methapor example:

Time is money

Heart of stone (a heart made of stone)

She's a night owl (she's a night owl)

Life is a rollercoaster (life is like a rollercoaster)

Onomatopoeia

The figure of speech above is a figure of speech that phonetically imitates, resembles, or voices the sound it describes.

You can usually find this onomatopoeia in comic books when the creator tries to describe a sound from an object.

For example, when you see a picture in a comic that shows a shooting scene, you will understand that at that time a shooting scene was taking place when reading the onomatopoeia “DOR!”.

Examples of onomatopoeia:

Click

Buzz

Splat

Whoosh

Personification

Personification is a figure of speech that seems to give life to inanimate objects. You do this by describing these objects as doing something like humans.

This figure of speech gives a picture as if the inanimate object is alive and does activities that are usually done by living things such as dancing, nodding, roaring and so on.

Example of personification:

the grass danced

the wind howled

the thunder grumbled

the fog crept in

Simile

Simile is a figure of speech that is commonly used to compare something. Simile usually describes a person or thing as something similar to someone or something else.

Simile is characterized by using words such as, like, similar to, as, or as…. US.

Example of simile:

Eats like a pig (eat like a pig)

As wise as an owl (as wise as an owl)

As blind as a bat (as blind as a bat)

Hyperbole

Hyperbole is a figure of speech that intentionally uses exaggerated words or sentences. Hyperbole is commonly used in poetry and speech to emphasize, evoke feelings and create strong impressions.

Because hyperbole uses an exaggerated word, its meaning cannot be taken literally.

Hyperbole example:

I could do this forever. (I can do this forever)

that must have cost a billion dollars

everybody knows that. (everyone knows that)

Anaphora

Anaphora is a figure of speech that has the characteristic of repeating a sequence of words at the beginning of an adjacent clause, thus giving an emphasis to the sentence.

Anaphora is commonly used in writing rhymes, poetry or speech to make it sound more rhyming.

Anaphora examples:

I came, I saw, I conquered. - Julius Caesar (I come, I see, I conquer)

Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition! - King John II, William Shakespeare (crazy world! Crazy king! Crazy mix!)

Assonance

Assonance is a figure of speech which has a characteristic in which the repetition of a similar vowel sound occurs in two or more words adjacent to each other in a line of poetry or prose.

Assonance most often refers to the repetition of an internal vowel sound in words that don't end the same.

For example, "he fells asleep under the cherry tree". The phrase has an assonance that emphasizes the repetition of the long vowel "e", even though the vowel in the word doesn't end in perfect rhyme.

Example of assonance:

motion of the ocean

chips and dip (chips and sauce)

dumb luck (luck)

Synecdoche

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which words or phrases that refer to part of something are replaced to replace the whole of that something, or vice versa.

Synecdoche example:

New wheels refers to a new car

the white house (the white house) refers to the government of the United States.

Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which something is called a new name which is related to its meaning or the original concept.

The meaning of this figure of speech is a language style that uses a word to express something else because it has very close kinship.

For example, it is common for people to refer to celebrity life and culture in the United States as "Hollywood", as in "Hollywood is obsessed with this new diet" (Hollywood is obsessed with this new diet).

The meaning of "Hollywood" is of course not because the place itself has an obsession, but rather refers to the celebrities who want to live there.

Examples of metonymy:

the crown (crown) refers to a nobleman

the new york time. Usually the name of a company or organization like this is commonly used to represent the people who work there.

Enchanted Fish

Enchanted Fish  

The Enchanted Fish
"The Enchanted Fish" tells the story of a fisherman who got sea fish while fishing. The fishermen requested that fish was let go because he was a Prince who turns into a fish shape. The fishermen were let go and then tell it on his wife. Then the fisherman's wife told him to ask for a request on the fish that the fishermen were released earlier. The first request is the home of the fisherman and his wife occupied the old shack. The fish grant it. But the fisherman's wife is not satisfied, then told him to return the fish to request a castle. Feeling uneasy, the fisherman went to sea the fish and then ask for the Castle. Again, the fish grant it. But again the fisherman's wife was not satisfied and return her husband sent to ask the fish in order to convert it to become a Queen. The fisherman, with a heavy heart, back in the fish of the sea and asked that his wife be Queen. The fish also grant it again. But the fisherman's wife is still not satisfied and rethink other requests. Until one day, a fisherman's wife saw how beautiful the Sun and moon. Then she told her husband to go to the sea to fish granted his request that set up the Sun and the moon. The fishermen were shocked and angry to be overreaction that request, because there is only one set of the Sun and the Moon that is God. But his wife is angry and encouraged him to go see the fish. When the fisherman tells his wife's wishes, the marine fish says "there's only one hoarding that is God. Go home, you will find your wife is in the old hovel near the coast."The Fisherman went home and found his wife and his old Shack back as they are.

moral value the enchanted fish

The moral message or Moral Value in the enchanted fish is that we should not be greedy, never be a greedy person.

1. Don't behave greedy for something

2. should be grateful for what you have owned