The document provides information about narrative texts, including their definition, purpose, generic structure, language features, examples, and moral values. It defines a narrative text as an imaginative story meant to entertain readers. The generic structure includes an orientation, complication, and resolution. It also discusses different types of narrative texts like fables, myths, legends, and short stories. An example story provided is about a race between a hare and tortoise, meant to teach the lesson that slow and steady wins the race.

1. NARRATIVE TEXT

2. Group
Member :
1. Cindy Orlanda Ikhsani
2. Elvira Andrianti
3. Laras Prawesti
4. Nabila Maharani Febrina

3. • Definition Of Narrative
Text
A narrative text is an imaginative
story to entertain people.
• Purpose Of Narrative
Text
to amuse or to entertain the reader

4. Generic Structure
1. Orientation
It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are
introduced. (Who, Where, When, What)
2. Complication
Where the problems in the story developed.
3. Resolution
Where the problems in the story is solved.
(happy ending or bad/sad ending)

5. GenericStructure of Narrative Text “Optional”
Other generic structures of the text:
• Evaluation : a step back to evaluate the plight (the
narrator’s viewpoint)
• Coda : Changes of the characters or lesson/value of the
story
• Re-orientation : the change which happens to the
participants and the lessons we can learn from the story
(moral value).

6. KindOf Narrative Text
 Fable
 Myth
 Legend
 Folktales
 Fairy Tale
 SienceFictionStory.
 Short Stories.
 Parables.
 Novels.
 Horror story.

7. Example of Narrative
Text
The Story of Hare and
Tortoise

8. There was once an arrogant hare who wanted to prove that he was better than
everybody else, so he choose the slowest animal in the county, the tortoise, and invited him
to a five mile race.
The tortoise accepted his challenge and trained hard for the event, while the hare
walked around boasting that he was going to humiliate the tortoise and make him look stupid.
The day of the race dawned. The tortoise set off at a slow and steady pace, while the
hare was dancing around laughing at him; other animals were laughing too, including the
rabbit, the badger, and even the little hedgehog.
The hare became exhausted from all his dancing around, so he decided to have a nap.
When he awoke, he realised that a few hours had passed and the tortoise was nowhere to be
seen. The hare panicked and ran the whole course as fast as he could, which was very fast
indeed.
As he reached the top of the final hill, he could see the finish line in the distance, with
the tortoise walking slowly across it, the victor.

9. Generic Structure Of the Story :
1. Orientation
It clearly states that the participants are the hare and the tortoise who live in once time.
2. Complication
From the second, third, and forth parragraphs, we see that the major complication is set
by the arogant hare. In the firs scene, hare and his supporters tried to humiliate tortoise while in
the same time the tortoise was practicing hard. Because hare thought it was safe, he took a nap,
but that was his big mistake.
3. Resolution
The story of hare and tortoise is closed with the scene of tortoise winning the race. It was
a bed and sad ending for hare but it was the victory of tortoise.

10. Language Features Of
Narrative Text
• Use noun phrases. Ex : a beautiful princess, a cruel
witch, and a huge temple.
• Use Adverbial of time or place. Ex : last year, two days
ago, in the castle, and in a jungle.
• Use Simple Past Tense, Simple Past Continuous Tense,
Simple Past Perfect Tense, Simple Past Perfect Continuous
Tense, Simple Past Future Tense. Ex of simple past tense
: A mouse was having a very bad time.
• Use Temporal conjunction and Temporal circumstances. Ex :
Once upon a time.

11. Moral Value
 There are two main purposes of writing a narrative text
1. Entertaining the readers with an interesting story.
2. Teaching a certain moral lesson to the readers.
 What we can catch for above narrative text in the story of hare and tortoise is that we
feel entertained with the fable story, animals do like we do. The second thing we get
the point is that "fast" is not always winning but "slow" and steady is winning in the
end.

12. Let’s Watch…