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▪ The Characteristics / Language Feature

of Narrative Text:

1. Past tense (killed, drunk, etc)
2. Adverb of time (Once upun a ti

me, one day, etc)

3. Time conjunction (when, then,
suddenly, etc)

4. Specific character. The charact

er of the story is specific, not g

eneral. (Cinderella, Snow Whit
e, Alibaba, etc)

5. Action verbs. A verb that show

s an action. (killed, dug, walked
, etc)

6. Direct speech. It is to make the

story lively. (Snow White said,”

My name is Snow White). The
direct speech uses present ten

se.