Stories are an important aspect of culture. Many works of art and most works of literature tell stories. Most of the humanities involve stories. Stories are of ancient origin, existing in ancient Egypt, ancient Greek, Chinese, Indonesian and Indian culture. Stories are also a ubiquitous component of human communication, used as parables and examples used to illustrate points. Storytelling was probably one of the earliest forms of entertainment.
Definition
Narrative Text is a text that displays the story as a result of the author's imagination or a fairy tales that is all around us. One of the characteristic of Narrative text which distinguishes it from the other types of text is conflict experienced by the characters in the story.
Types of Narrative
There are many types of narrative. They can be imaginary, factual or a combination of both. They may include fairy stories, mysteries, science fiction, romances, horror stories, adventure stories, fables, myths and legends, historical narratives, ballads, slice of life, personal experience.
Purpose
The purpose of the Text is to amuse or entertain people with a story. And nowadays, some Schools and Courses provide Narrative stories as a media in Learning English Language for the non-native English speakers.
A Narrative text consists of three parts: Orientation, Complication and Resolution. In some stories, a Narrative may also end with Reorientation. It contains the final result for better or for worse. Click here for more information about the generic structure of Narrative text.
Providing The Narratives
There are two ways in providing Narrative story to people. in spoken form or written form, and in a still or moving images. In spoken form, we usually use some fillers, such as well, you know, er ..., um ..., etc. And in written form we don't use any of those fillers as we use in spoken form. Here comes some examples of the Narrative stories :
- A Legend of Candy Cane
- Cinderella
- Cinderella (2)
- Emperor's New Clothes
- Mouse Deer and Farmer
- Rip Van Winkle
- Snow Maiden
- The Ant and the Grasshopper
- The Old Woman and the Sparrow
- The Purse of Gold
- The Vain Little Mouse
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The above list of stories
will be updated day by day
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