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The structure of text are opening, body, and closing. The structures simultaneously make meaning organism to gain social function. Every meaning
organism has different rhetorical side as social function. Text does not either stuck at the structure but also picture of “SS” beside the road. It means that in front of
the sign is winding road as stated by Santosa 2003: 60-61. Based on the communicative purpose, Pardiyono 2007:93-98 classifies
the text into eleven types. They are: description, recount, narrative, procedure, explanation, discussion, exposition, news item, report, anecdote, and review.
However, in this study the text was focused on the narrative text.
b. Definition of Narrative Text
Narrative text is a text which says the past activities or event which concerns on the problematic experience and resolution in order to amuse and even
give the moral messages to the reader. The generic structure of narrative text are orientation; stating the topic of an activity or event which will be told, sequence
of events; presenting the story about the past activities or events which has the chronological of conflicts and resolutions; resolution; stating the problem solving,
and coda; concluding in order to give the moral values. Gerot and Wignell 1994: 204 said that the social function of narrative is
to amuse, to entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways; Narratives deal with problematic events which lead to a crisis or turning
point of some kind, which in turn find a resolution. It is strengthened by www.ncowie.wordpress.com in which it is stated that the basic purpose of
narrative is to entertain, to gain and to hold a readers’ interest. However narratives
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can also be written to teach or inform, to change attitudessocial opinions e.g. soap operas and television dramas that are used to raise optical issues. Narratives
sequence peoplecharacters in time and place but differ from recounts in that through the sequencing, the stories set up one or more problems, which must
eventually find a way to be resolved. According to Hartono 2005:7, the language features used in narrative
text are: a. Focus on specific participants.
Narrative text focuses on the story of certain participant or character. b. Use of past tense.
Tenses used in narrative text is past tense, because it tells about a story happened in the past. The formula of past tense is
S + V2 … or S + to be waswere... c. Use of temporal conjunction.
The examples of temporal conjunction are: first, finally, then, when, next, last, before, etc.
d. Use of material or action processes. Material process relates to the physical action done by the participants.
The examples of materials process are: The water flows.
Participant process e. Use of mental process.
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Mental process relates to the verbs which indicate the participants’ feeling, thinking, and perceiving, for example:
Mr. Setiawan is satisfied with his new car. Senser mental phenomenon
To sum up, narrative text is a text retelling past event that included some problems to amuse and gain interest.
3. Review on Narrative Video
