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1. Introduction
1. Brief Description

How does reading a story enable us to comprehend it especially when the

story is a complex literary one? What are the key things that the text provides (on
the one hand) and that we readers do during the reading process (on the other hand),

so that we feel we have grasped the narrative, appreciate its effects and
complexities, and can talk about it with some confidence?

You have certainly heard stories or fairy tales that might be told by your
grandmother or grandfather about the origins of events in a place or are often said

to be folk legends, of course it's fun, isn't it? Of course, you have also been asked

about "Malin Kundang", "Lake Toba", "Cinderela" and many other stories. How
do these stories in your opinion, interesting?

Associated with the folklore. Look at the following sentence excerpts:

A : "Have you ever heard a story about The Green Princess?"
B : “Oh, yeah, I once heard the story from a tour guide when I visited the Maimoon

Palace in Medan, North Sumatra. It was such a wonderful story that made my

imagination go back through time. The guide was very good at telling the story.”

Do you think the answers given are Narrative stories? Precisely! The answer tells

about folklore whose purpose is to entertain listeners or readers, with sentences
using past tense. In this e-book, you will be invited to practice being able to

differentiate and capture meaning in Narrative texts.

2. Relevance
This Teaching Material contains material about narrative text, students will

be invited to be able to analyze narrative texts in the form of folklore from the

types, structures, linguistic elements, and functions of narrative texts. After
studying this e-book students are expected to be able to understand and create their

own version of narrative text by paying attention to linguistic elements.

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