Narrative

Narrative:

• IT IS USED TO ENTERTAIN, that is to gain and hold the reader’s interest in a story.
• TO TEACH and TO INFORM writer’s reflections on experience
• IT CAN BE IMAGINARY or FACTUAL (fairy tales, mysteries, fables, romances, adventures stories, myths and legends), or it can be complicated event that leads to a crises that finally find a solution.

Generic Structure:

ORIENTATION

• introduces participants/character (who)
• sets the scene (when & where)

COMPLICATION

• Development of a Crises: a crisis arises, something happened unexpectedly

RESOLUTION

• Solution of the crisis: for better or for worse

RE-ORIENTATION

•  closing to the narrative (optional)
• coda: changes of characters, lesson taken from the story

Language Features:

• Certain nouns are as pronoun of person, animal, certain thing in a story. E.g.. Stepsister, house work.
• Adjectives that form noun phrases, for example : long black air, two red apples, etc.
• Time connectives and conjunction to arrange the events, for example: then, before that, soon, etc.
• Adverb and adverbial phrase to point the place of event, for example: here, in the mountain, happily ever after.

• Action verbs are past tense: stayed, climbed, etc.
• Saying verbs that refer to what the human participants said, told, promised; and thinking verbs indicating thought, perception or feeling of the characters in a story, for example: felt, thought, understood
• Dialog often included and the tenses change according to the circumstances

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