A. Definition
A narrative is a text that tells a story and entertains the audience. (narattive adalah teks yang menceritakan sebuah cerita dan menghibur para pembaca)
B. The Purpose of a Narrative
That is to entertain or amuse the readers.
(menghibur pembaca)
C. Generic Structure
1. Orientation
(Open the story about What, Who, Where, When the story begin)
2. Complication
(There are the problems to be solved by the persons in the story)
3. Resolution
( Solutions form the problem)
4. Re-orientation
(The feeling of ending story. It can be happy, sad, confuce ending)
Examples
of narrative texts:
* myths
* fairy tales
* Aboriginal dreaming stories
* science fiction
* historical fiction
* romance novels
to see example narrative text, click this!