Sonora.ID - Kali ini akan diulas tentang contoh narrative text legend beserta strukturnya dalam teks Bahasa Inggris.

Narrative text merupakan salah satu jenis teks yang bercerita mengenai rangkaian peristiwa secara kronologis serta saling terhubung.

Tujuan adanya narrative text yakni untuk menghibur pembaca.

Umumnya narrative text bukanlah kisah nyata atau hanya hasil imajinasi penulis.

Sebuah narrative text memiliki struktur sebagai berikut:

1. Orientation, terdapat perkenalan tokoh dan latar
2. Complication, bagian ini menjelaskan awal mula peristiwa atau kejadian. Awal mula peristiwa tersebut menjadi rentetan alur cerita yang kemudian berlanjut pada konflik, klimaks, serta anti klimaks.
3. Resolution, merupakan bagian akhir cerita yang umumnya berisi penyelesaian konfliks.

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Contoh Narrative Text Legend

1. The Legend of Crying Stone

Once upon a time in Borneo, there lived a poor widow and her daughter. The girl was really beautiful. However, she was very lazy and spoiled. She loved to dress up every day, but never helped her mother.

One day, they went down to a village for buy something. A market was far away from their house. They walked there.

The girl got dressed very nice and walked in front of her mother. While the mother walked behind, carried a basket, wore dirty clothes. Nobody knew they were mother and daughter.

While entering the nearby village, people looked at them. Young men were so fascinated by girl’s beauty. However, she was in contrast to a woman walking behind her. It made people wonder.

Some young men asked her whether woman was her mother. But the girl arrogantly replied that the old woman was her maid. More people asked her along the way to market. She gave a same answer that her mother was her slave.

Eventually, the mother was really hurt to hear her daughter’s answer. Mother prayed to God to punish her ungodly daughter.

Suddenly, girl stopped then slowly turned to be a stone. The daughter cried and apologized to her mother.

But it was too late. The pretty girl was turned into a stone forever but continued to tear her regret to her mother.

Artinya:

Legenda Batu Menangis

Alkisah di Kalimantan, hiduplah seorang janda miskin dan putrinya. Gadis itu benar-benar cantik. Namun, dia sangat malas dan manja. Dia suka berdandan setiap hari, tetapi tidak pernah membantu ibunya.

Suatu hari, mereka pergi ke sebuah desa untuk membeli sesuatu. Sebuah pasar jauh dari rumah mereka. Mereka berjalan di sana.