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Generic Structure of Narrative Text

Orientation It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story
are introduced
Complication Where the problems in the story developed
Resolution Where the problems in the story is solved

reorientation lesson from the story

Language Feature of Narrative Text

Language Feature Example
Past tense Run, Wrote, Flew
Adverb of time One upon a time, one day
Conjunction Then, After that
Spesific Character Cinderella, Alladin, Alibaba, Turtel

Examples

ALADIN AND THE MAGIC LAMP

Orientation Once upon a time, there lived a handsome boy in Baghdad. The
name was Aladdin. He was a clever boy, but he did not like to work.

One day Aladin’s mother sent him to the market place to look for a
job. In the market he met a magician. The magician asked him to
work together with him. If Aladdin could do, he would get a lot of
gold coins and jewellery. The magician asked Aladdin to go inside
the cave and find a magical lamp there. So, Aladdin went into the
cave. Inside the cave, Aladdin was surprised by what he saw. Every
corner was full of gold and treasures. A few minutes later, he found
the lamp and quickly returned to the entrance of the cave.

Complication But Aladdin did not trust the magician and the magician became
very angry. When Aladdin was walking to the entrance, the
magician pushed a huge rock over the entrance of the cave and left
Aladdin and the lamp behind. Aladdin tried to move the rock all by
himself, but it was too big and heavy. And suddenly, he remembered

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