Generic Structure of Narrative Text (Struktur Teks Narasi)
Ada 4 generic structure of narrative text (struktur teks narasi) yang perlu kamu ketahui jika ingin menyusun atau membuat sebuah teks narasi (narrative text), yaitu:
1. Orientation
Merupakan bagian pembuka dari sebuah cerita teks narasi. Bagian ini mengenalkan tokoh dalam cerita (characters) serta latar terjadinya cerita yang meliputi latar tempat, waktu, suasana, dan keadaan sosial (setting).
2. Complication
Bagian ini berisi permasalahan yang terjadi di dalam sebuah cerita. Secara lebih detail, complication terbagi lagi menjadi 3 bagian, yaitu:
Rising action: Masalah mulai muncul
Climax: Puncak permasalahan
Falling action: Tensi permasalahan mulai menurun, dan mulai menemukan titik penyelesaian.
3. Resolution
Bagian ini berisi penyelesaian atau akhir dari sebuah cerita teks narasi. Sebuah cerita bisa ditutup dengan akhir yang menyenangkan (happpy ending), akhir yang menyedihkan (sad ending), atau akhir yang menggantung (cliffhanger).
4. Re-orientation
Bagian terakhir dari struktur teks narasi (narrative text) ini biasanya berisi kesimpulan, pesan moral (moral value), atau perubahan watak tokoh di akhir cerita. Reorientation ini sifatnya opsional karena tidak harus selalu ada pada suatu teks naratif.
3. The Structures of
a Fable
• Complication
A central problem or complication including rising
action to a dramatic climax.
• Orientation
Setting of a scene and introduction of the characters.
• Resolution (moral lesson)
The complication is resolved.
5. A Bat blundered into the nest of a Weasel, who ran up to
catch and eat him. The Bat begged for his life, but the
Weasel would not listen.
"You are a Mouse," he said, "and I am a sworn enemy of
Mice. Every Mouse I catch, I am going to eat!"
"But I am not a Mouse!" cried the Bat. "Look at my wings.
Can Mice fly? Why, I am only a Bird! Please let me go!“
THE BAT AND THE WEASELS Title
Orientation
Complicatio
n
EXAMPLE
6. The Weasel had to admit that the Bat was not a Mouse, so
he let him go. But a few days later, the foolish Bat went
blindly into the nest of another Weasel. This Weasel
happened to be a bitter enemy of Birds, and he soon had
the Bat under his claws, ready to eat him.
"You are a Bird," he said, "and I am going to eat you!"
"What," cried the Bat, "I, a Bird! Why, all Birds have
feathers! I am
nothing but a Mouse. 'Down with all Cats,' is my motto!"
And so the Bat escaped with his life a second time.
Complicatio
n
Resolution
EXAMPLE
7. Example:
• 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.
What is past tense?
Actions that happened at a specific time in the
past.
8. sequence words
• Sequence words are used to help
the readers easily connect events
in a story.
• Sequence words can be at the
beginning, middle, end, or as an
interruption in a sentence.
9.
10. • Indirect speech is also called reported
speech.
• is used when the speaker reports what
someone else said.
reported speech
11. Pronouns (to reflect who is speaking)
• When you are reporting the speech of someone
who talked about himself with the 1st person
pronoun (I), you need to change the pronoun to
‘he.’
Example:
Direct speech: “I can arrive at the river in time,” said
the Tortoise.
Indirect speech: The Tortoise said that he could arrive
at the river in time.
We use indirect speech, we
make some changes in:
Verbs
Because in indirect speech we are reporting, we use a
tense which is further back in the past)
