NARRATIVE TEXT

 

NARRATIVE TEXT

Narrative text is a type of text in English to tell a story that has a chronological sequence of events that are interconnected. The purpose of this text is to entertain the reader about a story or story.

Types of Narrative Text

Narrative text can be imaginary or factual. Here is an example of a genre from Narrative text:

Fairy tale

Mystery

Science fiction

Romance

Horror

Fable

Myth and legend

History

Slice of life

Personal experience

Characteristics of Narrative Text

1.Using action verbs in the form of past tenses.

2.Using a specific noun as a pronoun.

3.Using the Adjective to form Noun Phrase.

4.Use the Conjunction to sort events.

Narrative Text Structure

The structure of the narrative text focuses on a series of stages that are proposed to build a text on its own. In general, there are four stages in Narrative text, namely:

Orientation

Orientation or so-called introduction, contains about who, when, where a story is set.

Complication

Complication tells the beginning of the problem that causes the peak of the problem or what is commonly called the climax. This section usually involves the main character of the story.

Resolution

This section is the end of the story or in the form of a solution to the problem that occurred. Problems can be solved can be for better or even worse which will make the story end happily or vice versa.

Sometimes, there are resolutions which are other problems to solve. It is deliberately created by the author to increase and maintain interest and tension for the readers. Usually, this type of resolution is found in the mysteries and horror genres.

Re-orientation

The part is the closing of a story which is optional. Re-orientation can contain moral lessons, suggestions or teachings from the author.

EXAMPLE :

The Golden Swan

Long time ago, there lived a King. He was lazy and liked all the comforts of life. He never carried out his duties as a King. “Our King does not take care of our needs. He also ignores the affairs of his kingdom." The people complained.

One day, the King went into the forest to hunt. After having wandered for quite sometime, he became thirsty. To his relief, he spotted a lake. As he was drinking water, he suddenly saw a golden swan come out of the lake and perch on a stone. “Oh! A golden swan. I must capture it," thought the King.

But as soon as he held his bow up, the swan disappeared. And the King heard a voice, “I am the Golden Swan. If you want to capture me, you must come to heaven."

Surprised, the King said, “Please show me the way to heaven." “Do good deeds, serve your people and the messenger from heaven would come to fetch you to heaven," replied the voice.

The selfish King, eager to capture the Swan, tried doing some good deeds in his Kingdom. “Now, I suppose a messenger will come to take me to heaven," he thought. But, no messenger came.

The King then disguised himself and went out into the street. There he tried helping an old man. But the old man became angry and said, “You need not try to help. I am in this miserable state because of out selfish King. He has done nothing for his people."

Suddenly, the King heard the golden swan’s voice, “Do good deeds and you will come to heaven." It dawned on the King that by doing selfish acts, he will not go to heaven.

He realized that his people needed him and carrying out his duties was the only way to heaven. After that day he became a responsible King.

CONCLUSION :

Narrative text is a type of text in English to tell a story that has a chronological sequence of events that are interconnected

SUMBER :

http://www.english-for-students.com/The-Golden-Swan.html

https://www.studiobelajar.com/narrative-text/

 

ENCHANTED FISH

There once was a fisherman who lived with his wife in a small hut close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go fishing every day. One day, as he sat in his boat with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all of a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water. He quickly started to reel in his line and managed to pull out a huge fish. 

“Wow! This will feed us for days.” Much to his surprise, the fish started to talk and said,

 

“Pray, let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince. Put me in the water again, and let me go! Have mercy o' kind fisherman.” The astonished fisherman quickly threw him back, exclaiming, 

“I don't want to hurt a talking fish! Go on! Go where you came from.”

When the fisherman went home to his wife, he told her everything that had happened and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again. “Didn't you ask it for anything?” said the wife. 

“No, I didn't, what should I have asked for?” replied the fisherman.

“I am surprised you don't realize what you should have asked for. We live very wretchedly here, in this nasty dirty hut. We are poor and I am so miserable. You should have asked for a nice cozy cottage. Now go back and ask the fish that we want a snug little cottage”, said his wife

The fisherman wasn't sure about this but he still went to the seashore, sat in his boat, went to the middle of the sea and said:

“O enchanted beautiful fish!

Hear my plea!

My wife wants not what I want,

and she won't give up till she has her own will,

so come forth and help me!”

The fish immediately came swimming to him, and said, 

“Well, what is her will? How can I help your wife?” “Ah!” said the fisherman, 

“she says that when I had caught you, I ought to have asked you for something before I let you go. She does not like living in our little hut, and wants a snug little cottage.” 

“Go home, then,” said the fish, “She is already in the cottage!” 

So the fisherman went home, and saw his wife standing at the door of a nice trim little cottage. 

“Come in, come on in! Look at the beautiful cottage we have.” 

Everything went fine for a while, and then one day fisherman's wife said, “Husband, there is not enough room for us in this cottage, go back to the fish and tell him to make me an emperor.” 

“Wife,” said the fisherman,

 

“I don't want to go to him again. Perhaps he will be angry. We ought to be happy with what the fish has given us and not be greedy.”

 “Nonsense!” said the wife; “The fish will do it very willingly, I know. Go along and try!” 

With a heavy heart the fisherman went to the middle of the sea and said:

“O enchanted beautiful fish!
Hear my plea!
My wife wants not what I want,
and she won't give up till she has her own will,
so come forth and help me!”

“What would she have now?” said the fish. “Ah!” said the fisherman, 

“she wants to be an emperor.” “Go home,” said the fish; 

“She is an emperor already.”

So he went home and he saw his wife sitting on a very lofty throne made of solid gold, with a great crown on her head full two yards high. And on each side of her stood her guards and attendants in a row. The fisherman went up to her and said, 

“Wife, are you an emperor?” “Yes”, said she, 

“I am an emperor.” “Ah!” said the man, as he gazed upon her, “What a fine thing it is to be an emperor!” “Husband,” said she, “it is good to be an emperor.” They were happy for a while

Then a time came when she was not able to sleep all night for she was thinking what she should ask next. At last, as she was about to fall asleep, morning broke, and the sun rose. 

“Ha!'” thought she, as she woke up and looked at it through the window, “after all I cannot prevent the sun from rising.” At this thought she was very angry, and wakened her husband, and said, 

“Husband, go to the fish and tell him I must be Lord of the sun and the moon.” The fisherman was half asleep, but the thought frightened him so much that he fell out of the bed. 

“Alas, wife!” said he, “cannot you be happy with being such a  powerful emperor?” “No,” said she, 

“I am very uneasy as long as the sun and the moon rise without my permission. Go to the fish at once!” “I don't think this is a good idea,” said the fisherman but his wife wouldn't listen to him. 

“ Why don't you just go and ask the fish to make me the Lord of everything,” she said.

Then the man went shivering with fear. As he was going down to the shore a dreadful storm arose. The trees and the very rocks shook and the sky became black with stormy clouds. There were great black waves, swelling up like mountains with crowns of white foam upon their heads. Unfortunately the fisherman did not have any choice, so he got onto his boat and rowed to the middle of the sea and cried out as loud as he could:

“O enchanted beautiful fish!

Hear my plea!

My wife wants not what I want,

and she won't give up till she has her own will,

so come forth and help me!”

“What does she want now?” said the fish. 

“I am truly ashamed of my wife's greed but I can't do anything. 

She wants to be Lord of the sun and the moon. “Go home,” said the fish, 

“to your small hut.” And it is said that they live there to this very day.

Moral value the enchanted fish

Do not behave greedy for something and should be grateful for what you have owned.

Conclusion :

Moral value of the Enchanted Fish story is we should not be greedy for something and should be grateful for what we have owned

Sumber :

http://samuderabahasainggris.blogspot.com/2016/05/narrative-teks-enchanted-fish-dan.html

FIGURE OF SPEECH IN SONG

 

Figure Of Speech In Song

Figurative Language/Poetic Devices are used in poetry to help the reader "see"what the poet is writing about. Through the use of specific words and sounds, poetry is made.

Figurative language and poetic devices are used in lyrical music, too!!

1.) IMAGERY

 => The formation of mental images due to figurative and descriptive language

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe 

"your stare was holdin',

Ripped jeans, skin was showin',

Hot night, wind was blowin'"

2.) RHYME (Internal or End rhyme)

=> Rhyming words within or at the ends of lines.

Justin Bieber - BABY

You know you love me, i know you care

Just shout whenever, and i'll be there

You are my love, you are my heart

And we will never ever ever be apart

Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball

We clawed, we chained our hearts in vain

We jumped never asking why

We kissed, i fell under your spell

A love no one could deny

3.) ONOMATOPOEIA

=> The use of words that imitate sounds.

Nicki Minaj - Super Bass

CAN'T YOU HEAR THAT 

BOOM, BADOOM, BOOM

BOOM, BADOOM, BOOM,

BASS?

4.) PERSONIFICATION

=> Is a type of figurative language in which a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics.

Imagine Dragons - It's Time 

" Cause after all, this city

never sleeps at night..."

THE CITY DOESN'T ACTUALLY "SLEEP"

5.) SYMBOL

=> A symbol is anything that stands for or represents something else

Justin Timberlake - MIRRORS

In this song, "mirrors" is symbolizing a reflection between two people that are very close and are in love

6.) HYPERBOLE

=> A hyperbole is an obvious or intentional exaggeration.

One Republic - Counting Stars

" Said no more counting dollars, we'll be counting stars "

Counting stars is an exaggeration

7.) IDIOM 

=> An idiom is a phrase in which the literal meaning of the words does not add up to the actual meaning

Adele - Someone Like You

" Out of the blue "

8.) ALLITERATION

=> Alliteration is the repitition of the initial consonant sound in a line

Uncle Cracker - SMILE

You're better that the best

i'm lucky just to linger in your life

9.) SIMILE

=> A simile is a figure of speech that uses LIKE or AS to make a direct comparison between two unlike things.

MAROON 5 - Moves Like Jagger

I've got the moves LIKE Jagger

10.) METAPHOR

=> Describes something as though it were something else. It use the words IS or ARE

Selena Gomez - Naturally

You are the thunder... I am the lightning

MY FAVORITE SONG

ZERO O'CLOCK

Artist: BTS

Album: Map of the Soul: 7

Released: 2020

Genre: Pop

MAP OF THE SOUL series contains the honest and heartfelt story of BTS and their journey of discovering their true selves. 

The first chapter of this story, “MAP OF THE SOUL : PERSONA”, sang about the world and the joy of love, and the discovery of the self as it is displayed to the world; “MAP OF THE SOUL : 7” now turns inward to the shadow within in a candid acknowledgement that it, too, is part of the self.

“MAP OF THE SOUL : 7” looks back on the past seven years of BTS since their debut as seven members of one team. 

The journey was not always smooth sailing, and there were special travails that they had to endure in their rise as global superstars. 

Now, understanding that the scars left by those hardships is a part of their real selves, BTS accepts both “the self I want to show” and the “self I want to scorn” to at last tell their own story of finding their “real and complete selves”.

This song is written in Korean Hangul lyrics by inserting some English words in it.

But I found a singer from YouTube who covered this song with English lyrics without changing the true meaning of the Korean lyrics.

I will show some figure of speech in this song and also the issue of the song.

You know those days when you're sad for no reason at all? Your body's heavy and everybody, is busy and working hard to get ahead. I can't bring myself to take another step. Like I'm left behind by everyone else. The world keeps turning but I'm lost. Everywhere I go, something will stop me in my tracks. My heart's getting wounded and I end up talking less. I've ran so hard but why's this happening to me? Why only me? I lie in bed, as soon as I'm home. And then I think, whether it's my own fault? It's a hazy night, I look at the time, It's almost 12. Wishing there was no more pain. Still I doubt things will change. But at least today will soon come to an end. When the hands meet, and the clock strikes 12, the world will hold it's breath just for a moment, zero o'clock. Oh, and you're gonna be happy. And you're gonna be happy. Just like the speck of snow that's settling. Let's breathe as if it's the beginning. Oh, and you're gonna be happy. And you're gonna be happy. Turn this all around, you can begin once more, zero o'clock. Slippin' my beat, little by little. The look on my face says it ain't simple. I forget my lines that were familiar. Seems like my heart is getting tired. "Someday they'll all be things of the past." That's what I say but the hope doesn't last. Is it my fault? Is it my wrong? There's no answer. Just my voice echoing. I lie in bed, as soon as I'm home. And then I think, whether it's my own fault? It's a hazy night, I look at the time, It's almost 12. Wishing there was no more pain. Still I doubt things will change. But at least today will soon come to an end. When the hands meet, and the clock strikes 12, the world will hold it's breath just for a moment, zero o'clock. Oh, and you're gonna be happy. And you're gonna be happy. Just like the speck of snow that's settling. Let's breathe as if it's the beginning. Oh, and you're gonna be happy. And you're gonna be happy. Turn this all around, you can begin once more, zero o'clock. Clasping my hands, I pray to the heavens that the next day, I will smile more for me. That it'll be better for me. When this song ends, there's a new one. That'll be playing once again. May I be happier by then? Oh, and you're gonna be happy. And you're gonna be happy. For a moment, I hold my breath. And I give myself a small pat. Oh, and you're gonna be happy. And you're gonna be happy. Turn this all around, you can begin once more, zero o'clock.

This song means a regret after a relationships ends and considers what happened before is his fault. This song also tells about the crises of everyday life that are very inherent in society.

Figurative Language in this song is :

SYMBOL

In this song, "Zero o'clock" is symbolizing a. In that time the day will end and we must prepared for a new day that will be better than before.

PERSONIFICATION 

"The world will hold it' breath jus for  a moment" (baris 5 bait 3)

IDIOM 

"When the hands meet" (baris 5 bait 1)

RHYME

"Just like the speck of snow that's settling, let's breathe as if it's the beginning" (baris 6 bait 3,4)

"Slippin my beat little by little, The look on my face says it ain't simple" (baris 8 bait 1,2)

You can also watch this video👇 :

Conclusion :

Figurative Language/Poetic Devices are used in poetry to help the reader "see"what the poet is writing about. Through the use of specific words and sounds, poetry is made.

Sumber :

https://youtu.be/j5krMN0K7_E

https://ibighit.com/bts/eng/discography/detail/map_of_the_soul-7.php