Narrative

Definition :

Text  that tells about fiction or imagination.

 Purpose :

 to amuse or entertain the readers. Sometimes, it has moral value.

Text structure :

Orientation → Who, where, when

Complication  → Problem

Resolution → Solution

Types :   

Ø  Legend  ( the origin of place)

Ø  Fairy tales (Magic fantasy)

Ø  Myth (Mistical story)

Ø  Fable ( Animal Natural Creatures)

Ø  Folk tales ( generation to generation widely knows in the society nobody knows who the author is)

Ø  Tall tales ( US culture)

Example of

1)      Legend

-Roro jonggrang Temple

-Toba Lake

2)      Fairy tales

-Snow white

-Tinker bell

-Chinderella

3)      Myth

-Daedalus and Icarus

-Dewi Nawangwulan

4)      Fable

-The ant and the grasshopper

-The Fly and the bull

5)      Folk tales

-bawang merah bawang putih

-jaka tarub

-Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

6)      Tall tales

-Paul Bunyan