Narrative Text

​1. What is Narrative text?

Narrative is writing that tells a story. Narratives also have characters and a setting, as well as a narrator or person from whose point of view the story is told.

​2. What is the function of a narrative text?

The purpose of every story is always one and the same: to make the receiver to imagine the actions narrated as they are told to you, and make you live the experience narrated as your own.

Commonly, It can be used to entertain, inform or persuade a reader to either accept or reject a premise or idea.

​3. What are some examples of narrative text?

Some examples of narrative text are novels, short stories, news stories, memoirs and biographies.

Narrative text encompasses both fiction and non-fiction, and it includes any form of writing that communicates a series of events. It can be used to entertain, inform or persuade a reader to either accept or reject a premise or idea.

​ Example

True Friends

Once upon a time, there were two close friends who were walking through the forest together. They knew that anything dangerous can happen any time in the forest. So they promised each other that they would always be together in any case of danger. Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them climbed a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know how to climb up the tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless and pretended to be a dead man.

The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears, and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the dead creatures. After that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend that was on the ground, “Friend, what did the bear whisper into your ears?” The other friend replied, “Just now the bear advised me not to believe a false friend”.

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Aresti Yulianingsih