Narrative Text - Explanation & Examples

Have you got the task of making narrative text? Or are made with variable English thesis narrative text? Take it easy, here's a brief overview of the narrative text.Narrative text, in writing and composition courses narration is usually called, is one type of text in a language. Typically, narrative text (narrative text) contains the stories - both fiction, non-fiction stories, fairy tales, folk tales, animal stories / fables etc, basically all the stuff about narrative story ya name ... :-)Referring to the above description, example - an example of narrative text has actually been much published in this blog, such as:

    English Legend Most Popular stories
    English Fairy Tales collection options
    Zoo Story / Fable English
    Short stories in English ProphetEasy is not it?Now a little serious, because it would lead to an explanation, okay ...
Definition of Narrative TextMentioned that A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (narrative text is an imaginative story that aims to entertain people).If you look at the English dictionary, narrative literally means (1) a spoken or written account of connected events: a story. (2) the narrated part of a literary work, as distinct from dialogue. (3) the practice or art of narration.(Narrative means: 1. Either a spoken or written story about the events related. 2. Part is told in a literary work, as opposed to dialogue. 3. Practice or art of storytelling)If concluded, it is a narrative text is a text which contains a story either written or unwritten, and there are a series of connected events.Generic Structure of Narrative Text
For my friend who was sitting in the middle-school level, a description of narrative texts do not have to be difficult-difficult ya .. In essence, this text has a narrative structure / composition as below:

    Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are Introduced. (Provides an introduction to the characters, place and time of the story (who or what, when and where)

    Complication: Where the problems in the story developed. (Problems arise / start going and growing)

    Resolution: Where the problems in the story is solved. The problem is complete, well --- "happy ending" or worse "bad ending".Sometimes the arrangement (generic structure) can contain text narrative: Orientation, Complication, Evaluation, Resolution and reorientation. Although the "Evaluation" and "reorientation" is optional; may be added and could not. Evaluation provides assessment / evaluation of the course of the story or conflict. While reorientation contain final conclusions of the contents of the story.If you are adept at making the story narrative, its structure can be changed anyway, the most important parts of the above are still present in the narrative pal.Grammar Used in Narrative Text
Grammar (grammar) that often arise in making narrative text are:Using tenses "Past", both simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous, past or future can be continuous. (This rule is not an absolute rule shall be met anyway. Could not believe, ask your English teacher pal)For more details, see the example below:Example of Narrative Text (1)
Sincere Will Get a Great ReturnOnce upon a time, there was a kingdom named Auretto, all people lived peacefully there. One of them was Charlita, the king's daughter who was assumed as the most beautiful and kindest Princess of Auretto.
One day, Charlita looked blue. Because of that her father got confused. "What's the matter my beautiful daughter? Why are you so sad? "Asked King Fernando. Charlita was just silent. She did not say anything.
Then, King Fernando Decided to make a competition to cheer Charlita again. After that, the palace representative announce: "I will make a competition. The aim is to make my daughter, Princess Charlita to be happy and laugh again. Everyone who can do it, will get a prize. It will be held tomorrow when the sun rises. Sign: King Fernando. "
The following morning, everybody came to the palace, tried to give their best performance. They seemed happy and laugh, but not for Princess Charlita. She was just silent and still looked sad.
King Fernando started to give up. No one amused his daughter. Then, there came a handsome young man. "Excuse me King Fernando. I would like to join your competition. But, would you mind if I took Princess Charlita for a walk? "Said the young man gently. "As long as you make my daughter be happy again, it will totally alright." Said King Fernando. The handsome young man took Princess Charlita for a walk in a beautiful blue lake with a green forest around it. Charlita Princess smiled and looked happy after that. Every body looked happy, too. "I know why are you so my beautiful daughter. Now, I promise I will green environment. I always regret for destroying it. Finally, the environment around the kingdom Became so beautiful and green, full of plants. Then, the handsome young man got a prize from the king. "I will marry you off my daughter." Said him. "That is the prize I promise for you. Thanks for keeping our environment well. Thanks for making my daughter happy again. "Example of Narrative Text (2)The Legend of Swamp Dizziness

Once upon a time, there was a poor little 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 "dimple", a big wooden mortar for pounding rice. She Reminded him, "please remember, if there is a flood you must save yourself. Use this "dimples" as a boat ". The "dimples" was happy and thanked the old woman.The little boy 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 that stick out. 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 sticks, 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 "dimples" as a boat and picked up the old woman. The whole village added a huge lake. It is now known as Lake Swamp Dizziness in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.Explanation Narrative Text (for Advanced level)

To find definitions and explanations of narration (narrative text) pal of students could read a book about writing a book at the library nearby and complete, and here I will quote only the opinion of Thomas S. Kane (2000: 363-364) the following:A narrative is a meaningful sequence of events told in words. It is sequential in that the events are ordered, not merely random. Sequence always involves an arrangement in time (and usually other arrangements as well). A straightforward movement from the first to the last event constitutes the simplest chronology. However, chronology is sometimes complicated by presenting the events in another order: for example, a story may open with the final episode and then flash back to all that preceded it.
A narrative has meaning in that it conveys an evaluation of some kind. The writer reacts to the story he or she Tells, and states or implies that reaction. This is the "meaning," sometimes called the "theme" of a story. Meaning must always be rendered. The writer has to do more than tell us the truth he sees in the story; he must manifest that truth in the characters and the action.
Characters and action are the essential elements of any story. Also important, but not as essential, is the setting, the place where the action Occurs. Characters are usually people-sometimes actual people, as in history books or newspaper stories, sometimes imaginary ones, as in novels. Occasionally characters are animals (as in an Aesop fable), and sometimes a dominant feature of the environment functions almost like a character (the sea, an old house).
The action is what the characters say and do and anything that happens to them, even if it arises from a nonhuman source-a storm, for instance, or a fire. Often the action is presented in the form of a plot. Action is, so to speak, the raw material; plot, the finished product, the fitting together of the bits and pieces of action into a coherent pattern. Usually, though not Invariably, the plot takes the form of a cause-and effect chain: event A produces event B, B leads to C and C to D; and so on until the final episode, X. In a well-constructed plot of this kind we can work back from X to A and see the connections that made the end of the story and perhaps Likely Inevitable.
Stories can be very long and complicated, with many characters, elaborate plots, and subtle interpenetration of character, action, and setting. In writing that is primarily Expository, however, narratives are shorter and Simpler. Most Often they are factual rather than imaginary, when an historian describes as an event. Often in an exposition and illustration may involve; a simple narrative. Being Able to tell a story, then, while not the primary concern of the Expository writer, is a skill roomates he or she will now and again be called upon to use.References:Kane, Thomas. S. 2000.The Oxford Essential Guide to Writing. New York: Barkley Books.