Narrative Text

Purpose: to entertain/amuse the readers and to deal with actual or various experience in different ways.

Structure text :

·         Orientation

·         Evaluation

·         Complication

·         Resolution

·         Reorientation

Language features:

Ø  Focus on specific participants

Ø  Use of past tense

Ø  Use of temporal conjuctions and temporal circumstances

Ø  Use of materials (or action) process

Ø  Use of relational and mental process

·      Certain nouns, like as stepsisters, housework,etc

·      Adjectives, like as long black hair

·      Time connectives and conjuctions, like as then, before that, etc

·      Adverb and adverbial phrases, like as here, in the mountain, happily ever after, etc

·      Actions verbs in past tense

·      Saying verb, like as said, told, etc

Thinking verb, like as thought, felt, etc