Hello readers! Nice to see you again. In this occasion, we give you another example of Narrative text to make you understand genre you learned and the analysis of the Structure and Language Feature of Narrative Text entitled The Fairy and the Soap Bubble.
As we know that narrative text has social function to amuse, entertain and to deal with a actual or vicarious experience in different ways narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning point of some kind, which in turn finds a resolution.
Discussing the structure, Narrative Text consist of three generic structure, namely orientation, complication and resolution. Orientation sets the scene and introduces the participants
Complication tell us the crisis arises. And then, resolution show us the crisis is resolved, for better or for worse.
Meanwhile, the language features of Narrative text are explained below.
- Use simple past tense
- Use time conjugation or linking word (then, before that, when, after that, finally)
- Use adverb of time (once upon a time, one day, thousand years ago)
- Use action verb (walked, sat, landed)
- Use mental process (think, understand, believe, see, smell, listen, love, like, dislike)
- Use some dialogue
- Use direct and indirect speeches
Here is one of the example of narrative text and it's analysis based on the generic structure and the language features.
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Structure |
Text |
Language Feature |
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Title |
The Fairy and the Soap Bubble |
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|
Orientation |
Once upon a
time there was a
tiny little fairy. She was flying around in search of something to do
when she spied an open window |
Adverb of Time Who |
|
Complication |
She landed
gently on a window and peeped inside and found that it
was a little boy’s playroom. Inside she saw all the
lovely toys, soldiers trains, bricks. She crept inside, she looked at them
all, and suddenly she felt very weary, she was so tired she decided to have
little rest. She looked for place to sleep and she found the bowl of the
boy’s bubble pipe. She slept inside the boy’s bubble pipe.
Then while the tiny fairy was a sleep, the little boy decided
to blow some soap bubbles. When the bubble was big enough he suddenly noticed
that it was different from the ordinary soap bubbles. For there inside the
bubble was a beautiful tiny fairy. The little boy watched it float
away. He was sad because he did not want her to go away. It floated over
the tress and the right a cross the countryside.
The fairy
was frightened at being locked up in the soap bubble. She began
to wonder how she would be released from the bubble. Then suddenly the breeze
dropped the soap bubble downwards to earth. |
Action Verb Where
Past Tense Linking Verb Material Process Specific Participants Mental Process
Mental Process |
|
Resolution |
It landed
gently right by the river bank, almost touching the water. She saw a tiny
little fish. He was watching her too. “ Help me!’ the fairy said.. “
I’m locked in this bubble and I can’t get out” But the little fish did not know
what he could do.
The little
fish thought, “I can’t leave the fairy locked up like that.” Then
he leaped up out of the water and with his nose he popped the bubble. Ping! The
fairy was free at last. |
Noun Phrase (Specific Participant)
Mental Process
Linking Verb |
