NARRATIVE

              General Function:

      To amuse, entertain. And to deal with actual or vicarious experiences in different ways.

General Structure:

 Orientation                :  Sets the scene and introduce the participant.

 Complication            :  A crisis arises.

 Resolution                 : The crisis is resolved.

 Reorientation            : Conclusion

Significant Grammatical Features:

a.    Focus on specific usually individualized participants.

b.    The use of Simple Past Tenses

c.    The use of temporal conjunction

d.    The use of noun phrases

Example:

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

            Ali Baba was such a poor man that he had only one shoe for his two feet. Even the mice in his house are hungry. One day, his wife said, “We have no food in the house. No rice. No potatoes. Go and collect leaves in the forest so that I can make a soup.”

            Ali was a lazy man. He looked for leaves for about ten minutes and then he climbed a tree to sleep. He was afraid of wolves. When he woke up he was surprised to see forty thieves on forty horses. They stopped in front of a big rock.

            “Open Sesame!” shouted the leader. A door in the rock opened. The thieves carried sacks full of gold into the cave. When they had finished the leader shouted, “Close Sesame!” and the door closed.

            As soon as the thieves had disappeared Ali Baba jumped down the tree, said, “Open Sesame!” and went into cave. There were shelves all around the walls. The shelves were full of sacks which are full of gold. Ali took a sack home with him.

Unfortunately one of the thieves saw Ali’s footprints on the sand. He followed them to Ali’s home he took out his knife and made a cross on the door. “Now I shall know which house it is,” he said. Then, he rode off to get the other thieves.

But Ali has seen the thief. He and his wife took a broom and swept away the footprints. Then he made crosses on every door on the street. When the forty thieves arrived they had their knives between their teeth. But they never found Ali or the gold.

Ali and his wife lived happily ever after.

Question:

1.    What is the main idea of the first paragraph?

A.   Ali Baba had to go to the forest to find food.

B.   Ali Baba, his wife and his mice were always hungry.

C.   Ali Baba, his wife lived in a very poor condition.

D.   Everybody in Ali Baba’s house were always hungry.

E.   Ali Baba was such a poor man that he had only one shoe for his two feet.

2.    How was Ali Baba’s character?

A.   He was a coward.

B.   He was lazy but smart man.

C.   He was a poor and lazy man.

D.   He was lazy and greedy man.

E.   He was poor and greedy man

3.    The purpose of the text is …

A.   To teach readers a lesson.

B.   To retell past events.

C.   To entertain readers.

D.   To inform readers.

E.   To present a story.

4.    “Now I shall know which house it is,” he said. (para.5)

The underline word refers to …

A.   The house with crossed door.

B.   The house of Ali’s and his wife’s

C.   The house and he suspected very much.

D.   The house he wanted to visit

E.   The house he wanted to show to his friends.

5.    … Ali and his wife lived happily ever after.

      The above sentence shows us the …of the text.

A.   Orientation

B.   Reorientation

C.   Resolution

D.   Complication

E.   conclusion