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Materi narrative text berbicara tentang cerita-cerita fiktif atau dongeng dalam bahasa Inggris.
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Narrative text adalah jenis cerita karangan fiksi yang sengaja dibuat dengan tujuan menghibur pembaca.
Biasanya kita menjumpai narrative text dalam bentuk dongeng, cerita rakyat, dan beberapa bentuk cerita fiksi lainnya. Sedangkan tujuan umum narrative text adalah untuk menghibur pembaca melalui cerita.
Sajian cerita dalam narrative text terjadi secara berurutan yang mengarah pada satu klimaks dan berakhir dengan penyelesaian.
Ciri-ciri Narrative Text
Selanjutnya, kita perlu mengenal ciri-ciri narrative text. Ciri-ciri narrative text inilah yang membedakan narrative text dengan jenis-jenis teks bahasa Inggris lainnya.
Adapun ciri-ciri narrative text di antaranya sebagai berikut.
1. Menggunakan Action Verb dalam bentuk Past Tense.
Contoh kata kerja aksi berbentuk Past ini di antaranya: said, wondered, walked, wrote, cooked, cleaned, dan sebagainya.
Baca selengkapnya tentang past tense dalam Materi Simple Past Tense Dilengkapi Rumus, Penjelasan, dan Contoh Soalnya
2. Menggunakan kata benda (Noun) tertentu
Teks naratif menggunakan kata benda tertentu sebagai kata ganti orang, hewan, atau benda tertentu yang terdapat dalam cerita.
Contoh: the princess, the girl, the queen, the king, the gladiator, the illusionist, dan sebagainya.
3. Memakai Adjectives yang membentuk Noun Phrase.
Contoh: The red riding hood, the poisoned apple, dan sebagainya.
Anda dapat membaca pembahasan lengkap tentang Noun Phrase dalam Beginilah Cara Mudah Memahami Pengertian dan Rumus Noun Phrase
4. Menggunakan time connectives dan konjungsi
Untuk mengurutkan serangkaian kejadian-kejadian, maka digunakan time connectives dan konjungsi / kata hubung (conjunctions). Misalnya: before, after, then, next, soon, dan seterusnya.
5. Memakai Adverbs dan Adverbial Phrase
Sedangkan untuk menunjukkan lokasi kejadian / peristiwa maka menggunakan Adverbs dan Adverbial Phrase. Contoh: on the sea, in the mountain, there, happily ever after, dan sebagainya.
Generic Structure Narrative Text
Secara umum, sebuah narrative text memiliki generic struktur / struktur umum yang mengikat. Adapun generic structure narrative text terbagi menjadi 3 tahap, yaitu :
1. Orientation
Pada bagian orientation pada sebuah narrative text berisi pengenalan tokoh-tokoh yang terlibat dalam cerita. Selain itu juga membahas latar belakang tempat dan waktu cerita mencakup aspek siapa, apa, kapan, dan dimana.
2. Complication
Complication merupakan tahapan di mana mulai muncul permasalahan-permasalahan yang harus diselesaikan oleh tokoh utama pada cerita narrative.
3. Resolution
Resolution merupakan tahap akhir cerita narrative text. Pada tahap inilah masalah yang muncul pada tahap complication diselesaikan oleh tokoh utama cerita.
Pada bagian resolution juga biasanya dicantumkan moral value atau nasehat. Kita juga mengenalnya dengan istilah Coda.
Karena terkait dengan cerita fiktif atau dongeng, maka secara tata bahasa / grammar, kalimat-kalimat yang tersusun menggunakan bentuk Past (lampau).
Semua bentuk tenses lampau, baik Past Perfect, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Continuous, maupun Past Future Continuous dapat kita pakai.
Meskipun demikian, aturan-aturan ini tidak harus menjadi acuan karena tenses mengacu pada situasi dan kondisi kalimat.
Contoh Narrative Text Populer
Berikut admin sajikan contoh narrative text bahasa Inggris yang populer dalam masyarakat Indonesia.
The Legend of Malin Kundang
(Orientation)
A long time ago, in a small village near the beach in West Sumatra, a woman and her son lived. They were Malin Kundang and her mother. Her mother was a single parent because Malin Kundang’s father had passed away when he was a baby. Malin Kundang had to live hard with his mother
(Events)
Malin Kundang was a healthy, dilligent, and strong boy. He usually went to sea to catch fish. After getting fish he would bring it to his mother, or sold the caught fish in the town. One day, when Malin Kundang was sailing, he saw a merchant’s ship which was being raided by a small band of pirates. He helped the merchant. With his brave and power, Malin Kundang defeated the pirates.
The merchant was so happy and thanked to him. In return the merchant asked Malin Kundang to sail with him. To get a better life, Malin Kundang agreed. He left his mother alone. Many years later, Malin Kundang became wealthy. He had a huge ship and was helped by many ship crews loading trading goods. Perfectly he had a beautiful wife too. When he was sailing his trading journey, his ship landed on a beach near a small village. The villagers recognized him. The news ran fast in the town; “Malin Kundang has become rich and now he is here”. An old woman ran to the beach to meet the new rich merchant. She was Malin Kundang’s mother.
(Events)
She wanted to hug him, released her sadness of being lonely after so long time. Unfortunately, when the mother came, Malin Kundang who was in front of his well dressed wife and his ship crews denied meeting that old lonely woman. For three times her mother begged Malin Kundang and for three times he yelled at her. At last Malin Kundang said to her “Enough, old woman! I have never had a mother like you, a dirty and ugly woman!” After that he ordered his crews to set sail. He would leave the old mother again but in that time she was full of both sadness and angriness. Finally, enraged, she cursed Malin Kundang that he would turn into a stone if he didn’t apologize. Malin Kundang just laughed and really set sail
(Resolution)
In the quiet sea, suddenly a thunderstorm came. His huge ship was wrecked and it was too late for Malin Kundang to apologize. He was thrown by the wave out of his ship. He fell on a small island. It was really too late for him to avoid his curse. Suddenly, he turned into a stone.
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Contoh Soal tentang Narrative Text
Read the following text below and choose the answer between A, B, C, D, or E!
The Lion and The Mouse
Once when a lion was asleep, a little mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon awoke the lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and open his big jaws to swallow him.
“Pardon, O king,” cried the little mouse, “Forgive me this time, I shall never forget it; perhaps I may be able to do you a good turn some of these days.”
The lion was so tickled at the idea of the mouse being able to help him. Then, he lifted up his paw and let him go.
Sometime after, the lion was caught in a trap. Some hunters, who wanted to carry him alive to the King, tied him to a tree while they went in search of a wagon to carry him in. Just then, the little mouse happened to pass by and see the sad plight in which the lion was. The little mouse went up to him and soon gnawed away the ropes that bounded the king of the beasts. Soon after the little mouse had finished gnawing away the ropes, he asked the lion to run away.
Questions number : 1
1. What is the purpose of the text?
A. to entertain the readers.
B. to persuade the readers that something should or shoud not be the case.
C. to inform the readers about the events of the day which are considered newsworthy.
D. to explain something.
E. to present at least two points of view about an issue.
Questions number : 2
2. What is the moral value of the text?
A. Don’t look at someone because of his clothes.
B. It is best for prepare for the days of necessity.
C. Common people may prove great ones.
D. United we stand, divided we fall.
Questions number : 3
3. Paragraph three mainly tells us that …
A. the little mouse asked for forgiveness.
B. the hunters carried the lion alive to the king.
C. the lion was tied to a tree by the hunters.
D. the little mouse could prove that he could help the lion.
E. from the first, the lion believed in what the little house said.
Questions number : 4
4. What did the little mouse do to prove his words?
A. he would never forget the lion
B. he tried hard to help the lion free
C. he ran up and down upon the lion
D. he asked for apology to the king of the beast
E. he tied the lion to the tree so that the hunters could carry him
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