Narrative Text

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In this post, I want to explain about narrative text.

A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken words, through still or moving images, or through any combination of these. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare (to tell), which is derived from the adjective gnarus (knowing or skilled). Narration (i.e., the process of presenting a narrative) is a rhetorical mode of discourse, broadly defined (and paralleling argumentation, description, and exposition), is one of four rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, it is the fiction-writing mode[dubious – discuss] in which a narrator communicates directly to an audience. 

Narrative can be organized into a number of thematic or formal categories: nonfiction (such as creative nonfiction, biography, journalism, transcript poetry, and historiography); fictionalization of historical events (such as anecdote, myth, legend, and historical fiction) and fiction proper (such as literature in the form of prose and sometimes poetry, short stories, novels, narrative poems and songs, and imaginary narratives as portrayed in other textual forms, games, or live or recorded performances).

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

Generic Structures of Narrative Text:

• Orientation

Sets the scene: where and when the story happened and introduces the participants of the story: who and what is involved in the story.

• Complication

Tells the beginning of the problems which leads to the crisis (climax) of the main participants.

• Resolution

The problem (the crisis) is resolved, either in a happy ending or in a sad (tragic) ending.

• Re-orientation/Coda

This is a closing remark to the story and it is optional. It consists of a moral lesson, advice or teaching from the writer.

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