NARRATIVE

NARRATIVE TEXT

Apa itu Narrative ?

Narrative Text adalah teks yang berisi tentang sebuah cerita atau dongeng (bisa berupa cerita rakyat (folktale), cerita binatang (fable), Legenda (legend), cerita pendek, dll). Di dalamnya terdapat konflik/puncak masalah yang diikuti dengan penyelesaian. Fungsi utama teks ini adalah untuk menghibur pembaca.

Generic Structure:

Orientation - Complication - Evaluation (optional) – Resolution

Orientation:
berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa atau apa, kapan dan dimana)

Complication:
Berisi puncak masalah/konflik dalam cerita. Sebuah cerita boleh memiliki complication lebih dari satu

Evaluation:
ini merupakan optional (boleh ada boleh tidak), biasanya dipakai untuk membuat jalan cerita lebih menarik.

Resolution:
Pemecahan masalah. Bisa berakhir dengan kegembiraan (happy ending) bisa pula berakhir dengan kesedihan (sad ending).

NARRATIVE TEXT

TEXT-1

Once a upon time there lived as neighbours, a bear and a rabbit. The rabbit was a good short, and the bear, being very clumsy, could not use the arrow to good advantage. The bear would call over the rabbit and asked the rabbitto take his bow and arrows and came with the bear to the other side of the hill. The rabbit, fearing to arouse the bear’s anger by refusing, consented and went with the bear and shot enough buffalo to satisfy the hungry family. Indeed, he shot and killed so many that there was lots of meat after the bear and his family had loaded themselves, and packed all they could carry home. The bear was very gluttonous and did not want the rabbit to get any of the meat, so the poor rabbit could not even taste the blood from butchering, as the bear would throw earth on the blood and dry it up. Poor rabbit would have to go hom hungry after his hard day’s work.

The bear was the father of five children. The youngest child was very kind to the rabbit. The mother bear, knowing that her youngest child was hearty eater, always gave him an extra large piece of meat, but the youngest child didn’t eat. He would take it outside with him and pretend to play ball with it, kicking it toward the rabbit’s house, and when he got close to the door he would give the meat with such a great kick, that it would fly into the rabbit’s house and this way the poor rabbit would get his meal unknown to the papa bear. (Sumber: UNAS 2009)

Questions:

1. The poor rabbit didn’t taste any of the meat because …

A. they are already given to the butcher

B. they are eaten by the youngest bear

C. the bear carried all the meat home

D. they are already dried up

E. the bear ate all the meat

2. Which statement is NOT TRUE according to the text?

A. The papa bear was not very kind to the rabbit

B. The rabbit got nothing from his shooting

C. The mother bear always gives her youngest extra meat

D. The papa bear didn’t like giving the rabbit some meat

E. The papa bera knew that his youngest child gave the rabbit some meat.

3. The story teach us that …

A. proverty makes people suffer

B. we must keep our promise

C. being greedy makes other people happy

D. people should love each other

E. we must keep our relationship with others.

TEXT-2

Once upon time there was a poor widow who had an only son named Jack. They were so poor that they didn’t have anything except a cow. When the cow had grown too old, his mother sent Jack to the market to sell it. On the way to the market, Jack met a butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. The butcher told the boy that the beans were of graet vakue and persuaded the silly lad to sell the cow for the beans.

Jack brought them happily. When he told his mother about this, his mother became so angry that she threw the beans out of the window.

When Jack woke up in the morning, he felt the sun shining into a part of his room, but all the rest was quite dark and shady.

So he jumped to the window. What did he sse? The beanstalk grew up quite close past, Jack’s window. He opened the window and jumped to the beanstalk which ran up just like a big ladder.

He climbed … and climbed till at last he reached the sky. While looking around, he saw a very huge castle. He was very amazed.

Then Jack walked along the path leading to the castle. There was a big tall woman on the doorstep. Jack greeted her and asked for the giantess mercy to give him breakfast, because he felt very hungry. Although the giantess gummbled at first, finally she gave Jack a hunk of bread and cheese and a jug of milk.

Jack hadn’t finished whhen the whole house began to tremble with tile noise of someone’s coming. “Oh, it’s my husband”, cried the giantess. “What on the earth shall I do?”. Hastily the giantess opened a very big cupboard and hid Jack there. (Sumber: UNAS 2006)

Questions:

1. Where did Jack sell his cow?

A. At the castle

B. At the market

C. At the giant’s castle

D. At the butcher’s house

E. On the way to the market.

2. What is the story about?

A. Jack and a butcher

B. Jack and the giantess

C. Jack and bean stalk

D. A poor widow and his son

E. The giantess and her husband.

3. “Oh, it’s my husband”, cried the giantess. (Paragraph 7)

“What on the earth shall I do?” From the sentence we know that the giantess is … her husband.

A. afraid of

B. angry with

C. fed up with

D. annoyed with

E. displeased with.

4. Jack’s mother looked very furious when Jack told that …

A. the beans were precious

B. the butcher bought his cow

C. he had sold his cow to a butcher

D. he traded his cow for the beans

E. he met a btcher on the way to the market.

5. What do we learn from the text?

A. Sincerely makes Jack get something precious.

B. Jack’s mother was a furious mother.

C. Poverty makes people hopeless.

D. The giantess took pity on Jack.

E. Jack was an innocent boy.

TEXT-3

“ Koko, where are you?’ Hamid called softly to his cat. “He may have wandered to the harbour,” said Hamid’s friend, Muchtar.

Soon, the boys were at the harbour’s gate, marked Gate 6, of Priok Harbour. Two policemen were guarding the gate. The boys moved quietly so that the policemen would not see them. The boys knew the policemen would chase them away if they saw them.

The boys knew Koko was somewhere near the gate because they had heard him meowing. The sound seemed to have come from a taxi that was parked near by. Hamid and Muchtar saw two men standing beside the taxi. The men were talking in low tones. Then, one of them opened the car-boot, and Hamid saw Koko crouching among some bags.

Not long after that, the men left. Hamid quickly ran to the taxi. Finding the boot unlocked, Hamid lifted the lid. What a shock ! There were bags explosive! At the moment, Hamid heard the men coming back. He swept Koko into his arms and ran back to where Muchtar was keeping watch.

“Those men are smugglers trying to bring explosive into the harbour,’ Hamid whispered to Muchtar.

“What shall we do?’ asked Muchtar fearfully.

“We must alert the policemen at the gate,’ Hamid said. Hamid told the policemen what he had seen. The policemen did not really believe him, but they went with the boys to the taxi. The policemen were just in time to see the men taking the bags of explosive out of the boot.

The policemen quickly stopped the men and handcuffer them. (Sumber: UNAS 2006)

Questions:

1. Where did the two boys see the smugglers?

A. Somewhere near the harbour

B. At the guarded gate

C. At Priok harbour

D. Near a taxi

E. At gate 6.

2. The purpose of the text is to …

A. tell past events

B. entartain readers

C. describe the smugglers

D. report an event to the police

E. inform readers about events of the day.

3. Hamid … when he saw bags of explosives inside the boot.

A. ran back to Muchtar’s place

B. swept Koko into his arms

C. found the boot unlocked

D. left the taxi quickly

E. was very shocked.

4. “The policemen quickly stopped the men and handcuffer them.” (The last paragraph). This part of the text is called …

A. resolution

B. orientation

C. description

D. reorientation

E. complication.

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