Bahasa Inggris Unit 11 = Narative (Folktales)

Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story that past tense. The purpose of the text is to entertain or to amuse the readers or listeners about the story. The generic structure of Narrative text : Complication : Tells the problems of the story and how the main characters solve them.

 A narrative or story is any report of connected events, real or imaginary, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, and/or still or moving images. ... More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode in which the narrator communicates directly to the reader.

 Text types are any pieces of writing that you read or create. This can be anything from novels, newspaper reports and textbooks to recipes, movie reviews and game instructions. A text type scaffold is a simple framework that helps you to construct and create a piece of writing.

 Some Definitions. A narrative or story in its broadest sense is anything told or recounted; more narrowly, and more usually, something told or recounted in the form of a causally-linked set of events; account; tale,: the telling of a happening or connected series of happenings, whether true or fictitious

 The setting is the environment in which a story or event takes place. Setting can include specific information about time and place (e.g. Boston, Massachusetts, in 1809) or can simply be descriptive (eg. a lonely farmhouse on a dark night).

 Narrative structure, a literary element, is generally described as the structural framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader, listener, or viewer. The narrative text structures are the plot and the setting.