Chapter 8 part 2

Hai everyone how are you today? I hope you're fine and healthy. Today i will explain about narative text, so leggoo

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story using past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story.

Function:

1. To entertain the readers.

2. To teach or inform.

3. To change social opinion

The Generic Structure of Narrative text:

1. Orientation

It set the scene and introduce the participants (it answers the question:

who, when, what, and where)

2. Complication

Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them.

This part includes situations, activities, or events that lead

problem/complicationto the climax. It shows when the crisis arise

3. Resolution

The crisis is revolved, for better or worse. It shows the end of the story,

usually a happy ending

Reorientation

(optional) The ending of the story.

Other Generic Structures of Narrative text:

4. Evaluation

(optional) The stepping back to evaluate the story or the moral

message of the story

5. Coda

(optional) changes of the characters of lesson/value of the story

The Grammatical Features of Narrative Texts:

1. Adjectives to build noun groups to describe the people, animals or things in the story,

such as … a nice, diligent and kind-hearted man, etc.

2. ime connectives and conjunctions to sequence events through time, such as

however, although, later, then.

3. dverbs and adverbial phrases to locate the particular events, such as once upon a

time, long time ago.

4. ction verbs to indicate the actions, such as stood, explained, provided, smashed

5. Saying and thinking verbs to indicate what characters are feeling thinking or saying,

such as told, realized, decided’

6. Past Tense

Soo that's the explanation about narative text. If you are still confused, you can watch the video below. Anw see you next timee👋🏻

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XcN5yixI8Vib5_BS4_oAP7_mWYTt1BFs/view?usp=drivesdk