Narrative Text

Purpose : To amuse or entertain the readers with actual or imaginary experience in different ways. Narratives always deal with some problems which lead to the climax and the turn into a solution to the problem.

Text organization :
Orientation
Complication
Resolution


Language features :
The use of noun phrases
The use of connectives
The use of adverbial phrases of time and place
The use of the simple past tense
The use of action verbs
The use of saying verbs
The use of thinking verbs, feeling verbs, verbs of senses

Fairy tale, fables, myths, tall tales belong to narratives.