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Reflection

What can you infer from the tasks you have done?
What is actually a narrative text?

What are the social functions of narrative text?

What are the language features of narrative text?

Pay attention to the table below.

NARRATIVE TEXT

Purpose / Narrative text has purpose to amuse or to entertain the readers or the listeners

Social with actual or imaginary events. Narrative text is also a media to educate, to tell,
Function or to convey author’s experience.

Kind of narratives: legends, folktales, fable, myth, fairy tales

Generic Orientation: The introduction of the story

Structure Complication: Where the problems in the story developed.

Resolution: Where the problems in the story is solved.
Language 1. Using simple past tense

Feature 2. Using adverb of time

3. Using time conjunction
4. Using direct and indirect speech

1. What can you infer from the narrative texts you have read?

2. Could you find the similarities and the differences between the folktales and the

short stories from Unit 1 and Unit 2?
3. How are the texts written based on the culture inside it?

4. What are the characteristics of folktales and short stories?

5. In your opinion, how do the narrative texts in this workbook prototype shape
your citizenship (kewarganegaraan) ?

6. The folktales presented was written a long time ago, so, how do you adjust the

values in them to your daily life?
7. Read them again to find the answers from the questions above.

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