The document discusses narrative text, emphasizing its purpose to entertain and teach moral lessons through imaginative storytelling. Various types of narrative texts such as legends, folktales, myths, fables, and fairy tales are highlighted, along with their generic structures: orientation, complication, and resolution. An example is provided through the story of 'the legend of rawa pening,' illustrating how narrative elements come together.

1. Narrative Text
Ms. Rukadah
Intermediate Class

2. Which ones are your favorite stories?
The Ugly
Duckling
Cinderella
The Fisherman Little Red Riding
Hood
Snow White &
The Seven
Dwarfs

3. NARRATIVE TEXT
1
2
3
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

4. TYPES OF NARRATIVE
TEXT
1 LEGEND
2 FOLKTALE
3 MYTH
4
.
FABLE
5
.
FAIRY TALE
6
ETC.

5. Narrative Text forms
● Fairy tale (dongeng): cinderella, snow
white
● Folktale (cerita rakyat): Ande-ande
Lumut
● Myth (mitos): Nyai Roro Kidul
● Fable (fabel): The Ugly Duckling, Little
Red Hen
● Legend: Roro Jonggrang, Sangkuriang,
Malin Kundang

6. GENERIC STRUCTURES
It will introduce the characters
in the story.
First part
The problem is increasing. It
can call climax when the crisis
rising up.
Second part
It is to solve the problem. It is
usually called anti-climax.
Third part
It can be names, place etc. It
is usually occur in the first
paragraph
ORIENTATION
The characters of the story
experience more and more
problems until the climax.
COMPLICATION
It means that the problem
can be solved, eventhough
good or bad ending.
RESOLUTION

7. Example

8. THE GENERIC STRUCTURE
“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
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

9. EXERCISE
● After watching Lazy girl tales.
● Write the:
○ Orientation: Name, place, time. Usually at the
beginning.
○ Complication: The cause of the problems until
the climax
○ Resolution: End of the story. Whether the end is
better or worse.