assignment 2 : Narrative text

1.    1.  Definition of Narrative text.

Narrative text is a piece of text which tells a story and in doing so, to amuse, entertain or informs the reader or listener.

2.    2.  Example of narrative.

a)      Short story

b)      Novel

c)      Bedtime story

d)      Science fiction

e)      Historical fiction, etc.

3.    3.  Generic Structure

a)      Orientation : tells who is the story, when and where the story is happening.

b)      Complication : sets  off a chain of events that influences what will happen in the story.

c)      Sequence of events : where the characters react to the complication.

d)      Resolution : in which the characters finally solve the complication.

e)      Coda : provides a comment or moral based on the story (optional).

4.   4.    Language  feature

a)      Focus on specific and usually and ividualized participants. ( a shepherd-boy)

b)      Use of material process, behavioral, and verbal process.( Ran for….)

c)      Use of temporal conjunction and temporal circumstance.

Type of  conjunction	Examples
i.            Time       ii.            Result     iii.            Contrast      iv.            Reason        v.            Purpose      vi.            Manner	After, before, since, while, when,as So, so that Although, though, even though, while As, because, in case, for So that, in order that As, as if, as though

d)      The text emphasizes on the presence of the time order.

( long ago, once upon a time)

e)      The text usually uses simple past tense. ( left, ran)

f)       Use of verbal process. ( screamed)

5.     5. Example :

The Boy Who Cried “Wolf”

Orientation	There was once a shepherd-boy who kept his flock at a little distance from the village.    Once he thought he would play a trick on the villagers and have some fun at their expense. So he ran toward the village crying out, with all his  might.     “Wolf!, Wolf! Come and help! The wolves are at my lambs!”      The kind villagers left their work and ran to the field to help him. But when they got there the boy laughed at them for their pains, there was no wolf there.      Still another day the boy tried the same trick, and the villagers came running to help and got laughed at again. Then one day a wolf did break into the fold and began killing the lambs. In great fright, the boy ran for help.       “Wolf! Wolf!” he screamed. “There is a wolf in the flock! Help!”        The villagers heard him, but they thought it was another mean trick, no one paid the least attention, or went near him.        And the shepherd-boy lost all his sleep.	Focus on specific and usually individualized participants
		Use of temporal circumstance.
complication		Use of past tense
		Use of relational process
		Use of material process.
		Use of verbal process.
resolution   re-orientation		Use of mental process.