Ada yang suka cerita? Sebuah cerita identik dengan narrative text. Dalam 16 contoh bahasa Inggris berikut semuanya narrative berjenis cerita (story).
Beberapa diantaranya telah dilengkapi dengan generic structure.
Kumpulan contoh narrative text pendek (collection of 16 short narrative
texts) ini merujuk pada bebrapa jenis text narrative. As we all know that a narrative text can be a legend, myth, fable, folk, fairytale, etc.
Mostly when we talk about a narrative text, we talk about a story. The story is considered as a narrative text because it is organized
used the narrative's three main elements of generic structure. They are
ORIENTATION, COMPLICATION, and RESOLUTION. If you want to know what
this generic structure is, read what is narrative text in my previous post. Sebelum melihat ke 16 contoh narrative dibawah, mari kita lihat cerita rakyat berikut!
Story of Aji Saka and Dewata Cengkar
Many, many years ago, the kingdom of Medangkamulan was ruled by a king named Dewata-chengkar. This king had a strange and frightening habit. He liked to eat human beings.
One day, a young traveler arrived in the kingdom.He was called Ajisaka. Ajisaka took shelter in the house of a widow who quickly came to look upon the young man as her own son. When he heard of the king's strange appetite, Ajisaka sympathized with the villagers' plight and immediately volunteered to become the king's next meal.
Ajisaka went directly to the king's palace.“I am willing to be your next meal. Your Highnees. However, I have a request.“ said Aji Saka to the king. “Whatever you please, young man, I will grant your request,“ the king replied. “Before you eat me, grant me some land. Just enough length of my own headcloth.“ continued Aji Saka. “Come, Young Man. Let's measure your headcloth so that I can have my meal and you can have your land“ agreed the king.
Ajisaka began to unwrap the cloth tied around his head. The king got down from his throne and hold one end of the headcloth. He stepped backward. What he didn't know was that this headcloth was much longer. The king kept going backward, step by step, as the cloth kept unraveling. He stepped backward through the palace square, backward across the village, holding the end of Ajisaka's headcloth. The king kept stepping backward until reached the sea cliftts of the sea.
A great crowd of people had gathered. They held their breath as their king took his final step backward over the cliff's edge and plunged into the waves crashing againts the rocks at the foot of the sea wall.
Analisa Generic Structure
Kenapa teks cerita Aji saka diatas bisa digolongkan sebagai contoh narrative text? Tidak lain karena cerita diatas memiliki susunan generic sebagai berikut:
Language Feature
Narrative text kebanyakan ditulis dengan mode past tense karena memang berkenaan dengan sebuah peristiwa yang telah terjadi (seandainya buakan cerita rekaan). Disamping itu, layaknya banyak cerita, teks narrative juga memanfaatkan contruksi direct sentences (kalimat langsung) dalam dialog antar tokoh cerita. language feature lainnya bisa dicari sendiri dalam cerita diatas
Story of Aji Saka and Dewata Cengkar
Many, many years ago, the kingdom of Medangkamulan was ruled by a king named Dewata-chengkar. This king had a strange and frightening habit. He liked to eat human beings.
One day, a young traveler arrived in the kingdom.He was called Ajisaka. Ajisaka took shelter in the house of a widow who quickly came to look upon the young man as her own son. When he heard of the king's strange appetite, Ajisaka sympathized with the villagers' plight and immediately volunteered to become the king's next meal.
Ajisaka went directly to the king's palace.“I am willing to be your next meal. Your Highnees. However, I have a request.“ said Aji Saka to the king. “Whatever you please, young man, I will grant your request,“ the king replied. “Before you eat me, grant me some land. Just enough length of my own headcloth.“ continued Aji Saka. “Come, Young Man. Let's measure your headcloth so that I can have my meal and you can have your land“ agreed the king.
Ajisaka began to unwrap the cloth tied around his head. The king got down from his throne and hold one end of the headcloth. He stepped backward. What he didn't know was that this headcloth was much longer. The king kept going backward, step by step, as the cloth kept unraveling. He stepped backward through the palace square, backward across the village, holding the end of Ajisaka's headcloth. The king kept stepping backward until reached the sea cliftts of the sea.
A great crowd of people had gathered. They held their breath as their king took his final step backward over the cliff's edge and plunged into the waves crashing againts the rocks at the foot of the sea wall.
Simplified from: Achmad Doddy,
Developing English Competencies 3, Jakarta : Pusat Perbukuan, Departemen
Pendidikan Nasional, 2009.
Analisa Generic Structure
Kenapa teks cerita Aji saka diatas bisa digolongkan sebagai contoh narrative text? Tidak lain karena cerita diatas memiliki susunan generic sebagai berikut:
| Generic Structure | Contents |
|---|---|
| Orientation | The story introduce the participants. Those are main participants, Aji Saka and the king Dewata Cengkar. They lived in once time |
| Complication | The problem began when the king wanted to eat his people. That king's strange habit made Aji Saka face a major complication, how to solve the problem. Aji Saka tried to stop the king frighting habit. |
| Resolution | The story had a happy ending as Aji Saka Successfully beat the king. The king fall into the sea. |
Language Feature
Narrative text kebanyakan ditulis dengan mode past tense karena memang berkenaan dengan sebuah peristiwa yang telah terjadi (seandainya buakan cerita rekaan). Disamping itu, layaknya banyak cerita, teks narrative juga memanfaatkan contruksi direct sentences (kalimat langsung) dalam dialog antar tokoh cerita. language feature lainnya bisa dicari sendiri dalam cerita diatas
http://www.englishdirection.com/2012/10/16-contoh-terbaik-narrative-text-pendek.html
