Narrative Text dan Recount Text

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Definisi narrative text dan recount text dalam Bahasa Inggris

What Is Narrative Text ?

     A narrative text is the text used to tell the story of the past either of animals or humans and intended to teach a lesson or give entertainment.

     The contents of narrative text that is imaginary and real stories or events that leads to a problem in the past, that has finally found a solution.

      There are several kinds of narrative form. These kinds are based on the story types.  The types of narratives are:
A. Fable: Simple fable is a story about animal which behave like human
B. Myths: stories that are believed by some people but the stories can not be true. It was told in an ancient culture to explain a practice, belief, or natural occurrence
C. Legend: It simple a story which relates to on  how a place is formed
D.Novels: Long even very long and complex story
E. Horror story: A story with horror contents

F.  ETC

What Is Recount Text ?

     A recount text is a text that is used to tell about a story, actions, or events in the past and intended to tell the events that occurred in the past with the aim to entertain and inform.

     Recount the contents of the text is the experience or real events leading up to the past and only tells a series of activities or events experienced. In the text, there is no conflict problems or solutions such as narrative text.

Details and Parts of The Narrative Text

Narrative structure of the text:

1. Orientation

It tells the readers who,when,where, what and why ( the character(s), the time, the place and the direction of the story are all introduced).

2. Complication

A sequence of events involves the caharacters in actions that test their courage, determination and other qualities.

3. Resolution

The ending of the story in which the problem is solved or resolved. The story may have a happy or unhappy ending.

The characteristic features of narrative text :

o   Wearing Action Verb in the form of Past Tense. For example: Ran, Asked, Walked, and so forth.

o   Use nouns as the pronoun for people, animals and objects in a story. For example: The Princess, The King, and so forth.

o   Using adjectives that make up the noun phrase. For example: short brown hair, two monkeys, and so forth ..

o   Wear Time Connective and Conjunctions to sort an incident. For example: And then, afterwards, before, soon, after, and so on.

o   Using Adverbs and Adverbial Phrase to show the location of the incident or event. For example: here, in the mountain, happily ever after, and so on.

Details and Parts of The Recount Text

Recount structure of the text :

1. Orientation

In this section, the author of the story started with the introduction of background information to answer, when and where the event or events that happened in the past.

2. Event

After describing the background or identity of the perpetrator, setting the time and place, in this section the authors then began to tell the course of the story in sequence or chronological. Such as: "On the first day .... And in the next day .... And in the last day ...." In this section there are also personal comments about the event or events recounted.

3. Reorientation
Generic structure of the text of the last recount is reorientation, which explains a lot of this section with a summary that contains the repetition part orientation. But for me, this part is actually part conclusion (conclusion) or cover that expresses the author's personal opinion about the events that have been told. For example a story about the holiday, then the author will conclude an impression on vacation with "what an exciting holiday! I will go there again someday. "

The characteristics Recount Text :

1. Have a headline that summarizes the text.
2. Due to recount events that happened in the past, then recount text always use the past tense. Last week, I went to Bali island with my family.
3. Because sequentially (chronologically) often use the conjunction linking events in time, such as next, later, when, then, after, before, first.
4.Tell describe the events, so widely used is made of a verb (the verb), and adverbs (which describe in more detail how the verb (a verb) is performed).

Example of Narrative Text

THE STORY OF MOUSE DEER AND ELEPHANT

       One day, there was a mouse deer. He was trapped in a hole that had been made by a group of hunters.
      The mouse deer screamed for help but no one heard him. It was hopeless for him to escape from the trap. He waited and waited and finally  an elephant came. He  was happy and asked for help but the elephant  was not smart enough to help him. The elephant did not know how to do.

       In the end, the mouse deer got a bright idea. He said to the elephant, “Come down here! Come down to this hole so you can help me get out!” Foolishly The elephant agreed and followed the mouse deer’s order. The elephant jumped down to the hole.        

       Of course the mouse deer quickly hopped on the elephant’s body and then hopped out of the hole. He was free and leaving the elephant trapped in the hole in turn.

Example of Narrative Text

Holiday in Pasir Kencana Beach

        Last week my friend and I were bored after three weeks of holidays, so we rode our bikes to Pasir Kencana Beach, which is only five kilometres from where I live. When we arrived at the beach, we were surprised to see there was hardly anyone there.

         After having a quick dip in the ocean, which was really cold, we realized one reason there were not many people there.It was also quite windy. After we bought some hot chips at the takeaway store nearby, we rode our bikes down the beach for a while, on the hard, damp part of the sand. We had the wind behind us and, before we knew it, we were many miles down the beach. 

           Before we made the long trip back, we decided to paddle our feet in the water for a while, and then sit down for a rest. While we were sitting on the beach, just chatting, it suddenly dawned on us that all the way back, we would be riding into the strong wind.     

            When we finally made it back home, we were both totally exhausted! But we learned some good lessons that day.

Questions of Narrative Text :

1.  What makes mouse deer trapped?

2. Who makes a hole so the mouse deer trapped ?

3. Why mouse deer screaming?

4. Why elephants do not know how to help the mouse deer?

5. How does the mouse deer out of the hole?

Questions of Recount Text :

1. Where the "I"" and her friend go?

2. How the distance between “my” house and the beach?

3. Why is not there a lot of people on the beach?

4. Where  the "I" and his friend bought a hot chip?

5. What does the "I" and his friend before a long trip back?