Al Faqih Warsono
Teks Narrative adalah teks yang bertujuan untuk menghibur pendengan atau pembacanya. Pada tahap awal pembaca akan dibawa untuk mengenali setting Narrative, yang berupa :
Dengan demikian struktur teksnya :
LONG, LONG ago there was a
little frog. He lived in a little pond. Near the pond was a tall
tree. The little frog was very happy.
The little frog had a long, long tail. He loved his tail. When he looked at it he sang a song. He thought it was the best tail in all the world.
The little frog grew bigger. His tail grew longer. His songs got louder. All the birds came to sit in the tall tree, and hear him. They sang songs too, about his lovely tail.
One day the little frog said to himself, "I am the only frog in this pond. I sing songs; the birds come to hear me. I have a beautiful tail. I am the greatest frog in all the world."
Then he stood up, and he said, "Listen to me, you birds and you fishes. From today, and for always, you can call me King Frog!"
The little frog liked his new name. He thought it was the best name of all.
Contoh Legend
Teks Narrative adalah teks yang bertujuan untuk menghibur pendengan atau pembacanya. Pada tahap awal pembaca akan dibawa untuk mengenali setting Narrative, yang berupa :
- Setting waktu (time). Waktu yang digunakan biasanya tidak dapat diukur secara pasti, tidak jelas. Misalnya : once, once upon a time, long-long time ago (pada jaman dahulu, dahulu kala)
- Setting characters (tokoh). Misalnya: a king (seorang raja), an old woman (seorang wanita tua), Prince Arjuna (pangeran Arjuna), a mousedeer (seekor kancil), a tiger (seekor harimau), dll.
- Setting tempat (place). Misalnya: in a valley (di sebuah lemb ah), in a small town (di sebuah kota kecil), in a cave (di sebuah gua), in Neverland, dll.
Dengan demikian struktur teksnya :
- Orientation (pengenalan tokoh, waktu, dan tempat).
- Complication (pengembangan konflik / masalah, jalan cerita)
- Resolution (penyelesaian konflik berupa happy ending, sad/tragic ending).
- Re-orientation (perubahan yangb terjadi pada tokoh di akhir cerita, atau pelajaran yang dapat dipetik (moral value).
- menggunakan bentuk kata kerja past tense (lampau), misalnya : told (memberitahu), said (berkata), screamed (menjerit), jumped (melompat), took (mengambil), dll.
- biasanya diawali dengan adverb of time seperti : long time ago, once upon a time, dll.
- menggunakan kata hubung seperti then (kemudian), after that (setelah itu), before (sebelum[nya]).
- ketika berbentuk cerita, biasanya menggunakan bentuk ungkapan langsung (direct speech)
- Fabel (cerita binatang)
- cerpen (short story)
- Comic (cerita bergambar)
- legenda (legend)
- cerita rakyat (folktale)
THE FROG AND THE THUNDER
The little frog had a long, long tail. He loved his tail. When he looked at it he sang a song. He thought it was the best tail in all the world.
The little frog grew bigger. His tail grew longer. His songs got louder. All the birds came to sit in the tall tree, and hear him. They sang songs too, about his lovely tail.
One day the little frog said to himself, "I am the only frog in this pond. I sing songs; the birds come to hear me. I have a beautiful tail. I am the greatest frog in all the world."
Then he stood up, and he said, "Listen to me, you birds and you fishes. From today, and for always, you can call me King Frog!"
The little frog liked his new name. He thought it was the best name of all.
Contoh Legend
Sangkuriang
Long time ago in West Java,
lived a beautiful girl named Dayang Sumbi. She was also smart and clever. Her
beauty and intelligence made a prince from the heavenly kingdom of Kahyangan
desire her as his wife. The prince asked permission from his father to marry
Dayang Sumbi. People from Kahyangan could never live side by side with humans,
but his father approved on one condition, when they had a child, the prince
would transform into a dog. The prince accepted the condition.
They get married and lived happily in the woods until Dayang
Sumbi gave birth to a baby boy. The prince then changed into a dog named
Tumang. Their son is named Sangkuriang. He was very smart and handsome like his
father. Everyday, he hunted animals and looked for fruits to eat. One day, when
he was hunting, Sangkuriang accidentally killed Tumang. His arrow missed the
deer he was targeting and hit Tumang instead. He went home and tells her mother
about the dog. “What?” Dayang Sumbi was appalled. Driven by sadness and anger,
she grabbed a weaving tool and hit Sangkuriang’s head with it. Dayang Sumbi was
so sad; she didn’t pay any attention to Sangkuriang and started to cry.
Contoh Comic
