MATERI: NARRATIVE TEXT READING
Narrative
Text, adalah
teks yang isinya merupakan cerita
atau kisah tentang sesuatu. Contoh
narrative text: cerita rakyat (folktale), cerita binatang (fable), Legenda
(legend), cerita pendek (short story), dan sejenisnya. Di dalamnya terdapat
konflik/puncakmasalah yang diikuti dengan penyelesaian. Fungsi utama teks ini
adalah untuk berkisahatau menghibur pembaca.
Ciri-ciri
narrative text:
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Generic Structure:
1.
Orientation: berisi pengenalan
tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
2.
Complication: Berisi puncak
konflik/masalah dalam cerita. Sebuah cerita
boleh memiliki complication lebih dari satu.
3.
Resolution: Pemecahan masalah.
Bisa berakhir dengan kegembiraan (happy ending) bisa pula berakhir dengan
kesedihan (sad ending).
Catatan:
Terkadang juga susunannya
(generic structure): Orientation,
Complication,Evaluation, Resolution dan Reorientation. Untuk “Evaluation”
dan“Reorientation” merupakan optional; bisa ada bisa tidak. Evaluation berisi
penilaian/evaluasi terhadap jalannya cerita atau konflik. Sedangkan
Reorientationberisi penyimpulan isi akhir cerita.
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Grammatical
features menggunakan tenses “past”
·
Sering
menggunakan kata penghubung waktu (temporal conjunction),
misalnya: once upon a time, one day, long time ago, …
Contoh Narrative Text:
Ali Baba
Once upon
a time
there were 40 cruel thieves who
put their stolen money and treasures
in acave. They went in the cave by saying ”Open Sesame” to the cave
entrance. A poor person, named AliBaba saw
them while they were doing that,
so he heard the opening word. After
they left, he went toward the
cave and opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and golden
treasures. He took some of it and went back home. After that he became a rich
man and his brother wanted to know how he became rich.
Ali Baba
turned into the richest man in his village. His evil brother was really jealous
of him, andwanted to know how he could get such a lot of money. Therefore, when
Ali Baba went to the cave again to take
some more money, his brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided to go
back the next day to take some money for himself. The next morning he found a
lot of money in the cave, and he wanted to take all of them. Unfortunately,
when he was busy carrying the money to his house, the thieves came. The boss of
the thieves asked him how he knew about the cave. He told everything,but
unluckily they killed him and went to Ali Baba’s house.
After
finding Ali Baba’s house, they made a plan to kill him the following night.
Some of the thieves hid in big jars, and the boss pretended that he was a
merchant who wanted to sell the jars to Ali Baba. Ali Baba who was a kind man
invited the boss of the thief to have lunch together.
After
lunch they took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went out of the house, and
found that there were thieves inside the jars. She finally boiled hot oil and
poured it into the jars to kill all of them. The boss of the thieves was
caught, and put into prison.
Ali Baba
was saved from the danger, and he finally lived happily ever after with his maid who
became his wife shortly after.
Generic Structure teks di atas sebagai berikut:
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STORY
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GENERIC
STRUCTURE
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Once upon a time there were 40 cruel thieves who put their stolen money and treasures
in acave. They went in the cave by saying ”Open Sesame” to the cave
entrance. A poor person, named AliBaba saw
them while they were doing
that, so he heard the opening word. After
they left, he went toward the
cave and opened it. Suddenly he found a very large quantity of money and
golden treasures. He took some of it and went back home. After that he became
a rich man and his brother wanted to know how he became rich.
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ORIENTATION
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Ali Baba turned into the richest man in his village. His
evil brother was really jealous of him, andwanted to know how he could get
such a lot of money. Therefore, when Ali Baba went to the cave again to take some more money,
his brother followed him. He saw everything, and decided to go back the next
day to take some money for himself. The next morning he found a lot of money
in the cave, and he wanted to take all of them. Unfortunately, when he was
busy carrying the money to his house, the thieves came. The boss of the
thieves asked him how he knew about the cave. He told everything,but
unluckily they killed him and went to Ali Baba’s house.
|
COMPLICATION
|
|
After finding Ali Baba’s house, they made a plan to kill him
the following night. Some of the thieves hid in big jars, and the boss
pretended that he was a merchant who wanted to sell the jars to Ali Baba. Ali
Baba who was a kind man invited the boss of the thief to have lunch together.
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ORIENTATION
|
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After lunch they took a rest. Luckily, the house maid went
out of the house, and found that there were thieves inside the jars. She
finally boiled hot oil and poured it into the jars to kill all of them. The
boss of the thieves was caught, and put into prison.
|
COMPLICATION
|
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Ali Baba was saved
from the danger, and he
finally lived happily ever after with
his maid who became his wife shortly after.
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REORIENTATION
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