Narrative text is a form of text that tells an imaginative story from the past. It aims to both entertain and teach moral lessons. Key features include the use of adverbs of time, conjunctions, simple past and past continuous tenses. There are several types of narrative texts, including legends, folktales, myths, and fables. The generic structure of a narrative text includes an orientation that introduces characters and setting, a complication that presents problems, and a resolution that solves those problems for better or worse. An example is provided of the Legend of Rawa Pening, a story from Indonesia about a poor boy who is saved from a flooding village by using a mortar he received from a generous woman as a

1. NARRATIVE TEXT
By Septia Ipadol

2. NARRATIVE TEXT
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A text that tells about an imaginative story in the
past.
What is narrative text?
To entertain and to teach people moral lessons
with a story.
The social function of narrative text
Adverb of Time, Conjunctions, Simple Past
Tense & Past Continuous Tense.
The language features

3. TYPES OF NARRATIVE TEXT
1 LEGEND
2 FOLKTALE
3 MYTH
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FABLE
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FAIRY TALE
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ETC.

4. THE GENERIC STRUCTURE
1 TITLE
4 RESOLUTION
2 ORIENTATION
3 COMPLICATION

5. Exsampel of Narrative Text
“The Legend of Rawa Pening”
Once upon a time, there was a little poor boy came into a little village.
He was very hungry and weak. He knocked at every door and asked for some food,
but nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help the little boy.
Finally, a generous woman helped him. She gave him shelter and a meal.
When the boy wanted to leave, this old woman gave him a “lesung”, a big wooden
mortar for pounding rice. She reminded him, “Please remember, if there is a flood
you must save yourself. Use this “lesung” as a boat”. The boy was happy and
thanked the old woman. He continued his journey. While he was passing through
the village, he saw many people gathering on the field. The boy came closer and
saw a stick stuck in the ground. People challenged each other to pull out that stick.
Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. “Can I try?” asked the little boy. The crowd
laughed mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck so he stepped forward and pulled
out the stick. He could do it very easily. Everybody was dumbfounded.
Suddenly, from the hole left by stick, water spouted out. It did not stop
until it flooded the village. And no one was saved from the water except the little
boy and the generous old woman who gave him shelter and meal. As she told him,
he used the “lesung” as a boat and picked up the old woman. The whole village
became a huge lake. It is now known as Rawa Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java,
Indonesia.
Introduces the characters
and informs about time &
place
Tells the problems of the
story and how the
character solves them
The problems in the story
solved for better or worse
ORIENTATION
COMPLICATION
RESOLUTION

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academy.id/blog/narrative-text-adalah
• https://www.ruangguru.com/blog/struktur-
dari-narrative-text
• https://www.studiobelajar.com/narrative-
text/