defined as an author’s careful array of events in narrative to achieve a desired effect.
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Plot in narrative text is important as it is necessary for narrative text to be chronologically written.
2. Structure of Narrative Text
Narrative text focuses the text in chronological series of occurrence.
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Below are the generic structure of narrative text:
a. Orientation Introduction Orientation consists of setting in the story. It includes the introduction of
characters, background story, time of the story etc. it usually answers “Who, When, and Where”. For example, Mr. Wolf went out hunting in the forest one
dark gloomy night.
b. Complication or problem Complication is a series of occurrences that happens in the story. It involves
the main characters problem or hardships in a story.
c. Resolution There needs to be a resolution after the complication. The complication may
have happy ending or bad ending. Sometimes there are a number of complications that have to be resolved. These complications will add and sustain interest and
suspense for the reader.
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Jane Bachman Gordon and Karen Kuehner, Fiction: The Elements of Short Story, Ohio: McGraw-Hill, 1999, p. 1
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Joko Priyana, Interlanguage: English for Senior High School XI, Pusat Perbukuan Departemen Pendidikan Nasional, 2008
3. Sample of Narrative Text
Table 2.1 Narrative Text Sample and Structure
Generic Structure Text
Orientation In the town of Verona there lived two families, the
Capulets and the Montagues. They engaged in a bitter feud. Among the Montagues was Romeo, a hot-blooded
young man with an eye for the ladies Complication
There, he was surprised to find Juliet on the balcony, professing her love for him and wishing that he were
not a “Montague”, a name behind his own. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name
would smell as sweet.” Romeo was ready to deny his name and professed his love. The two agree to meet at
nine o-clock the next morning to be married. Resolution
Unfortunately, the Friar’s letter failed to reach Romeo. Unde
r the cover of darkness, he broke into Juliet’s tomb. Romeo kissed the lips of his Juliet one last time
and drank the poison. Meanwhile, the effects of the sleeping potion wear off. Juliet woke up calling for
Romeo. She found her love next to her but was lying dead, with a cup of poison in his hand.
Reorientation She tried to kiss the poison on his lips, but failed. Then
she died.
4. Types of Narrative Text
There are many types of Narrative text, mostly, students were introduced fable, legend, myth, fairy tales and folk tales story. Fables where the characters
are animals and usually ends with moral value. Legend is one of the narrative story that was told from one person to another person and is usually tells about
how one place was found. Then, myth is a narrative story that most of it is not
