Narrative Text
Pada kesempatan ini saya akan
berbagi informasi tentang narrative text. Dalam bahasa Inggris, narrative
text merupakan cerita imaginasi yang bertujuan untuk menghibur orang-orang,
khususnya pembaca. Berikut ini akan dijelaskan sedikit mengenai Generic
structure/Rhetorical structure, grammatical feature, dan juga sebuah contoh
dari narrative text itu sendiri.
Generic Structure of
Narrative Text
1. Orientation/Orentasi :
Ini merupakan pembukaan pada text di mana karakter terhadap ceritanya
diperkenalkan.
2. Complication/Komplikasi
: Komplikasi yang dimaksud dalam narrative text adalah
memuat masalah-masalah di dalam cerita. Seperti contohnya, hal-hal yang terjadi
yang dialami oleh penulis sendiri.
3. Resolution : Sebelum
resolusi telah dijelaskan adanya komplikasi, yaitu masalah. Resolusi merupakan
tahapan penyelesaian masalah yang
dialami oleh penulis, maupun pada cerita tersebut.
Grammatical Feature
Dalam narrative text
ini, fungsi grammar
menggunakan beberapa tenses yang dapat digunakan untuk menceritakan
kejadian-kejadian yang telah lewat di masa lalu. Seperti:
1. Past perfect
2.
Past continuous
3.
Past perfect continuous
4.
Future continuous
Contoh narrative text
The Legend of Rawa Pening
Orientation/orentasi
Once upon a time, there was a
little poor boy came into a little village. He was very hungry andweak. He
knocked at every door and asked for some food, but nobody cared about him.
Nobody wanted to help the little boy.
Complication/komplikasi
Finally, a generous woman helped
him. She gave him shelter and a meal. When the boy wanted to leave, this old
woman gave him lesung,
a big wooden mortar for pounding rice. She reminded him, “please remember,
if there is a flood you must save yourself. Use this Lesung as a boat.
The “lesung” was
happy and thanked to the old woman. The little boy continued his journey. While
he was passing through the village, he saw many people gathering on the field.
The boy came closer and saw a stick stuck in the ground. People challenged each
other to pull out the stick. Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. “can I
try?” asked the little boy. The crowd laughed mockingly. The boy wanted to try
his luck so he stepped forward and pulled out the stick. He could do it very easily.
Everybody was dumbfounded.
Resolution/Resolusi
Suddenly, from the whole left by
stick, water spouted out. It did not stop until it flooded the village. And no
one was saved from the water except the little boy and the generous old woman
who gave him shelter and meal. As she told him, he used the lesung as a boat
and picked up the old woman. The whole village became a huge lake. It is known
as Rawa Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia.
Penjelasn dari text di atas
1. Pertama
jika kita melihat pada orentasi text tersebut dimulai dengan once upon a time. Merupakan
sebuah ekpresi dari keterangan waktu yang menunjukan waktu lampau.
2. Kemudian kita melihat juga tatanan
bahasanya grammar menggunakan
tenses yang
telah disebutkan. Seperti past tense. Contohnya:
o
He was very hungry and weak
o
The little boy continued his journey
o
Every body tried.
Semoga bermanfaat.
Wassalammualaikum Wr.Wb
