Short Story Terms

What is Narrative Text?

• An imaginative story to persuade the readers

• An imaginative story to entertain the readers

• A real story about someone's experience

• An imaginative story to imagine a story

What is included in the type of narrative text?

• Poem

• Novel

• Legend

• Biography

What is the social function of the narrative text?

• to tell stories or past events and entertain the readers.

• to tell stories or future events and share to the readers.

• to tell stories or past events and inform the readers.

• to tell stories or present events and inform the readers.

Choose which is NOT part of the generic structure in the narrative text!

• Complication

• Orientation

• Event

• Resolution

From these Narrative Stories, which one is NOT a legend?

• Rapunzel

• Batu Menangis

• Malin Kundang

• Tangkuban Perahu

Guess this riddle!

1. What goes up and never comes down?

What is complication of the text?

• Where the story is began.

• Where the problems in the story is solved.

• Where the story is ended.

• Where the problems in the story developed.

What is the orientation of narrative text?

• The end paragraph of the story where the conflict is solved.

• The middle paragraph of the story where certain events lead to climax.

• The opening paragraph where the characters and setting of the story are introduced.

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  The social function of the text that explain the theme.

What is resolution of the text?

• Where the problems in the story developed.

• Where the story is began.

• Where the problems in the story is solved.

• Where the story is ended.

The followings are tenses most usually used in short story, EXCEPT ...

• Simple Past Tense

• Simple Present Tense

• Past Continuous Tense

• Past Perfect Tense