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  What  is Narrative Text? When we talk about a narrative text, it can not be separated from a story and a past experience. Most texts dealing to those object, people will call it narrative. When learning any kind of English text, the study will cover 3 important things. they are definition, structure and language characteristics. Definition of Narrative Narrative is a text focusing on specific participants. Its social function is to tell stories or past events and entertain the readers. Generic Structure of Narrative A narrative text will consists of the following structure: 1.Orientation: Introducing the participants and informing the time and the place 2.Complication: Describing the rising crises which the participants have to do with 3.Resolution: Showing the way of participant to solve the crises, better or worse Language Features of Narrative ·Using processes verb ·Using temporal conjunction ·Using Simple Past Tense True Friends Once upon a time, there were two close fri...

 ENCHANTED FISH There once was a fisherman who lived with his wife in a small hut close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go fishing every day. One day, as he sat in his boat with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all of a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water. He quickly started to reel in his line and managed to pull out a huge fish. “Wow! This will feed us for days.” Much to his surprise, the fish started to talk and said, “Pray, let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince. Put me in the water again, and let me go! Have mercy o' kind fisherman.” The astonished fisherman quickly threw him back, exclaiming, “I don't want to hurt a talking fish! Go on! Go where you came from.” When the fisherman went home to his wife, he told her everything that had happened and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again. “Didn't you ask it for anything?” said the wife. “No, I didn't, what should I have asked for?” r...

  What are Figures of Speech? A figure of speech is a word or phrase using figurative language—language that has other meaning than its normal definition. In other words, figures of speeches rely on implied or suggested meaning, rather than a dictionary definition.  We express and develop them through hundreds of different  rhetorical  techniques, from specific types like  metaphors  and  similes , to more general forms like  sarcasm  and slang. III. Types of Figure of Speech There are countless figures of speech in every language, and they fall into hundreds of categories. Here, though, is a short list of some of the most common types of figure of speech: A. Metaphor Many common figures of speech are metaphors. That is, they use words in a manner other than their literal meaning. However, metaphors use figurative language to make  comparisons  between unrelated things or ideas. The “peak of her career,” for example, is a metap...