What is Narrative Text?

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Everyone must often tell a story that they just hear, watch, or even their self-story to someone, good friends, relatives, parents, etc. Well, actually what we do when telling a story we experienced is an applicative example of a narrative text. Therefore, everyone must have known or at least heard narrative text in advance. But what is exactly narrative text?

Definition of Narrative Text

Narrative Text is one of 13 types of English text (genre) born from narration, as well as Recount Text, Anecdote Text, and Spoof Text. Then, the definition of narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people.

Perhaps you need to know that narrative text, in the writing and composition lecture, is usually called narration, which is one type of text in a literary language. Usually, the narrative text contains good fiction stories, non-fiction stories, animal stories (fable), folktales, fairy tales, myths, legends, etc. In simple words, everything about the story is included in the narrative text.

Generic Structure of Narrative Text

Orientation: It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story are introduced.

Complication: Where the problems in the story developed.

Resolution: Where the problems in the story are solved.

Coda/reorientation (optional): a lesson from the story

Purpose of Narrative Text

The Purpose of Narrative Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.