A Narrative text is a text that tells a story and entertains the audience. The purpose of narrative text, other than providing entertainment, can be to make the audience think about issue, teach them a lesson, or excite their emotions.
Examples narrative texts include:
- Myths
- Fairytales
- Aboriginal Dreaming stories
- Science Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- Romance Novel
- Orientation : introduction of characters, time, setting and place.
- Complication: problem, complic by characters.
- Resolution: describes the solution to the complication and gives an ending to the story.
- Specific participants or characters
- The use of past tense
- The use of past continuous tense
- A lot of action verbs
- Some relational verbs to describe the characters and setting
- Many connective or conjunctions to sequence the story
References
Lin loughed. 2005. Short functional text
Mark Anderson & Kathy Anderson. 2002. Text type in English
Reid, Joy M. 1994. The process of paragraph writing. New Jersey: prentice Hall, inc
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