Narrative Text, adalah teks yang isinya merupakan cerita atau kisah tentang sesuatu. Contoh narrative text: cerita rakyat (folktale), cerita binatang (fable), Legenda (legend), cerita pendek (short story),
dan sejenisnya. Di dalamnya terdapat konflik/puncak masalah yang
diikuti dengan penyelesaian. Fungsi utama teks ini adalah untuk
berkisah atau menghibur pembaca.
Ciri-ciri narrative text:
- Orientation: berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
- Complication: Berisi puncak konflik/masalah dalam cerita. Sebuah cerita boleh memiliki complication lebih dari satu.
- Resolution: Pemecahan masalah. Bisa berakhir dengan kegembiraan (happy ending) bisa pula berakhir dengan kesedihan (sad ending).
Catatan:
Terkadang juga susunannya (generic structure): Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation. Untuk “Evaluation” dan “Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa ada bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik. Sedangkan Reorientation berisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.
3. Sering menggunakan kata penghubung waktu (temporal conjunction), misalnya: once upon a time, one day, long time ago, …
Contoh Narrative Text:
Ali Baba
Once upon a time
there were 40 cruel thieves who put their stolen money and treasures in
a cave. They went in the cave by saying ”Open Sesame” to the cave
entrance. A poor person, named Ali Baba saw them while they were doing
that, so he heard the opening word. After they left, he went toward the
cave and opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money
and golden treasures. He took some of it and went back home. After that
he became a rich man and his brother wanted to know how he became rich.
Ali Baba turned
into the richest man in his village. His evil brother was really
jealous of him, and wanted to know how he could get such a lot of
money. Therefore, when Ali Baba went to the cave again to take some
more money, his brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided to
go back the next day to take some money for himself. The next morning
he found a lot of money in the cave, and he wanted to take all of them.
Unfortunately, when he was busy carrying the money to his house, the
thieves came. The boss of the thieves asked him how he knew about the
cave. He told everything, but unluckily they killed him and went to Ali
Baba’s house.
After finding Ali
Baba’s house, they made a plan to kill him the following night. Some of
the thieves hid in big jars, and the boss pretended that he was a
merchant who wanted to sell the jars to Ali Baba. Ali Baba who was a
kind man invited the boss of the thief to have lunch together.
After lunch they
took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went out of the house, and found
that there were thieves inside the jars. She finally boiled hot oil and
poured it into the jars to kill all of them. The boss of the thieves
was caught, and put into prison.
Ali Baba was saved from the danger, and he finally lived happily ever after with his maid who became his wife shortly after.
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