Tes Potensial Akademik

The Language Features of Narrative Text

Narrative text juga memiliki unsur kebahasaan atau language feature yang terdiri atas 7 unsur sebagai berikut.

1. Menggunakan past tense, contohnya dengan menggunakan verb 3 seperti killed, drunk, won, sent dan lainnya.
2. Menggunakan keterangan waktu atau adverb of time, contohnya when, suddenly, before, until, soon.
3. Menggunakan konjungsi waktu atau time conjunction, contohnya after, as soon as, then.
4. Menggunakan karakter spesifik atau specific character, contohnya Aladin, Rapunzel, Cinderella.
5. Kata kerja aksi atau action verbs, contohnya walked, wrote, bought, talked.
6. Menggunakan direct speech atau kalimat langsung yang menggunakan present tense, contohnya  Aladin say, “she is the one”
7. Menggunakan saying and thinking verb atau kata kerja yang menunjukan ujaran, contohnya told, said, thought.

The Generic Structure of Narrative Text

Narrative text memiliki tiga unsur utama yang harus ada dalam sebuah cerita narrative text, berikut penjelasannya.

• Orientation, merupakan paragraf awal yang berisi mengenai perkenalan tokoh yang terlibat dalam suatu kejadian dalam cerita. Selain itu orientation berisi tempat kejadian serta waktu cerita.
• Complication, terdiri atas paragraf yang menjelaskan mengenai awal mula peristiwa atau kejadian. Awal mula peristiwa tersebut menjadi rentetan alur cerita yang kemudian berlanjut pada konflik, klimaks serta anti klimaks.
• Resolution, merupakan bagian akhir cerita. Sesuai namanya, pada struktur ketiga dari narrative text ini berisi penyelesaian.

Complication terdiri atas tiga konflik, yaitu

• Natural conflict, konflik alam atau antar semesta.
• Social conflict, konflik antar tokoh atau pelaku.
• Psychological conflict, konflik pada batin atau diri sendiri.

Selain ketiga unsur text tersebut, penulis dapat menambahkan evaluation serta reorientation. Evaluation merupakan evaluasi pada jalan cerita, sedangkan reorientation merupakan kesimpulan di akhir cerita.

The Example of Narrative Text

"The Ugly Duckling"

 

 

A little duckling was terribly unhappy because he thought he was the ugliest amongst all his brothers and sisters. They’d not play with him and titillated the poor ugly duckling. One day, he saw his reflection within the water and cried, “Nobody likes me. I’m so ugly.” He decided to go away from home and went far-off into the woods.

Deep within the forest, he saw a cottage in which there lived an old lady, her hen, and her cat. The duckling stayed with them for a few times however he was sad there and shortly left. Once the winter set in, the poor duckling nearly froze to death. A peasant took him home to his woman and kids. The poor duckling was afraid of the kids and escaped. The ugly duckling spent the winter in a very marshy lake.

Finally, spring arrived. One day, the duckling saw a gorgeous swan swimming within the lake and fell in love with her. Then again he remembered how everybody made fun of him and he bent his head down in shame. Once he saw his own reflection in the water he was astonied. He wasn’t an unsightly duckling any longer, but a handsome young swan! Now, he knew why he had looked so completely different from his brothers and sisters. “They were ducklings but I used to be a baby swan!” he said to himself. He married the gorgeous swan and lived happily ever once.

1.

A little duckling was terribly unhappy because he thought he was the ugliest amongst all his brothers and sisters. They’d not play with him and titillated the poor ugly duckling. One day, he saw his reflection within the water and cried, “Nobody likes me. I’m so ugly.” He decided to go away from home and went far-off into the woods.

Deep within the forest, he saw a cottage in which there lived an old lady, her hen, and her cat. The duckling stayed with them for a few times however he was sad there and shortly left. Once the winter set in, the poor duckling nearly froze to death. A peasant took him home to his woman and kids. The poor duckling was afraid of the kids and escaped. The ugly duckling spent the winter in a very marshy lake.

Finally, spring arrived. One day, the duckling saw a gorgeous swan swimming within the lake and fell in love with her. Then again he remembered how everybody made fun of him and he bent his head down in shame. Once he saw his own reflection in the water he was astonied. He wasn’t an unsightly duckling any longer, but a handsome young swan! Now, he knew why he had looked so completely different from his brothers and sisters. “They were ducklings but I used to be a baby swan!” he said to himself. He married the gorgeous swan and lived happily ever once.

read the text carefully and answer the suitable one!!

1. Why did the baby duck decide to leave home?

A. A. He saw a swan
B. B. He is trying to catch a kit.
C. C. He saw his reflection and thought nobody liked him because he was ugly.
D. D. He Goes to the Hills

2.

"The Ugly Duckling"

A little duckling was terribly unhappy because he thought he was the ugliest amongst all his brothers and sisters. They’d not play with him and titillated the poor ugly duckling. One day, he saw his reflection within the water and cried, “Nobody likes me. I’m so ugly.” He decided to go away from home and went far-off into the woods.

Deep within the forest, he saw a cottage in which there lived an old lady, her hen, and her cat. The duckling stayed with them for a few times however he was sad there and shortly left. Once the winter set in, the poor duckling nearly froze to death. A peasant took him home to his woman and kids. The poor duckling was afraid of the kids and escaped. The ugly duckling spent the winter in a very marshy lake.

Finally, spring arrived. One day, the duckling saw a gorgeous swan swimming within the lake and fell in love with her. Then again he remembered how everybody made fun of him and he bent his head down in shame. Once he saw his own reflection in the water he was astonied. He wasn’t an unsightly duckling any longer, but a handsome young swan! Now, he knew why he had looked so completely different from his brothers and sisters. “They were ducklings but I used to be a baby swan!” he said to himself. He married the gorgeous swan and lived happily ever once.

After leaving home, where does the duckling go?

A. A. He goes to the hills.
B. cottage in a deep forest.
C. He go to another village
D. he goes to another village