Task 1 : Jumbled Paragraph

Narrative Text

Once upon a time, a mother duck sat on her eggs. She felt tired of sitting on them. She just wished the eggs would break out.

 

Several days later, she got her wish. The eggs cracked and some cute little ducklings appeared. “Peep, peep” the little ducklings cried. “Quack, quack” their mother greeted in return. However the largest egg had not cracked. The mother duck sat on it for several days.

 

Finally, it cracked and a huge ugly duckling waddled out. The mother duck looked at him in surprise. He was so big and very gray. He didn’t look like the others at all. He was like a turkey.
 

When the mother duck brought the children to the pond for their first swimming lesson. The huge grey duckling splashed and paddled about just as nicely as the other ducklings did. “That is not a turkey chick.

 

He is my very own son and quite handsome” the mother said proudly. However, the other animals didn’t agree. They hissed and made fun of him day by day.

 

Even his own sisters and brothers were very unkind. “You are very ugly” they quacked. The little poor duckling was very unhappy. “I wish I looked like them” he thought to himself.

 

One day, the ugly duckling run away and hid in the bushes. The sad duckling lived alone through the cold and snow winter.

 

Finally the spring flowers began to bloom. While he was swimming in the pond, he saw three large white swans swimming toward him. “Oh, dear. These beautiful birds will laugh and peck me too” he said to himself.

 

But the swans did not attack him. Instead, they swam around him and stroked him with their bills.

 

As the ugly duckling bent his neck to speak to them, he saw his reflection in the water. He could not believe his eyes. “I am not an ugly duckling but a beautiful swam” he exclaimed.
 

He was very happy. From that day on, he swam and played with his new friends and was happier than he had never been.

Narative Text

ENGHLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

Narrative text 

adalah salah satu jenis teks yang menceritakan rangkaian peristiwa dengan sistem kronologis atau saling terhubung. Narrative text umumnya bersifat imajinatif, alias tidak nyata.

 

Tujuan Narrative Text 

Fungsi sosial dari narrative text adalah untuk menghibur audiens atau pembaca.

 

Ada empat struktur teks naratif (generic structure of narrative text), yaitu:

1. Orientation

Dalam bahasa Indonesia, orientation berarti pengenalan. Jadi, pada paragraf awal narrative text biasanya berisi perkenalan tokoh dan latar yang terlibat dalam isi cerita. Dalam hal ini, latar bisa menjadi tempat kejadian serta waktu cerita. 

2. Complication

Bagian ini akan mulai masuk pada paragraf yang menceritakan terkait awal mula masalah suatu peristiwa atau kejadian.

Karena bersifat kronologis, maka masalah yang muncul di awal akan berlanjut menjadi rentetan alur cerita panjang yang mengandung konflik, klimaks, serta anti klimaks.  Oh ya, untuk memudahkanmu, begini susunan dalam complication:

  • Problem, yaitu paragraf atau kalimat yang mulai menjurus pada masalah dari suatu cerita.
  • Conflict, lebih kompleks lagi, setelah ada masalah, maka cerita akan berlanjut pada konflik. Di bagian ini, audiens akan dibuat penasaran dengan apa yang terjadi antara satu tokoh dengan tokoh lainnya.
  • Climax, yaitu puncak konflik yang menjadi sorotan utama dalam narrative text.
  • Anti-climax, dalam bahasa Indonesia, bagian ini biasa disebut juga sebagai penurunan konflik. Jadi, konflik akan berkurang secara pelan.
  • Solution, sesuai dengan namanya yaitu solusi, maka paragraf dalam bagian solution akan menjelaskan tentang penyelesaian dari konflik yang sudah diceritakan sebelumnya.

Dalam hal ini, complication terbagi ke dalam 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.

3. Resolution

Resolution adalah akhir dari cerita atau kesimpulan dari cerita. Paragraf ini bisa menjadi penjelasan lanjutan dari solution.

Dalam bagian ini, penulis juga dapat menggambarkan apakah narrative text yang dibuat akan berakhir dengan sad ending atau happy ending.

4. Re-orientation

Sebetulnya struktur yang satu ini tidak wajib ada di narrative text. Namun, umumnya kalimat dalam paragraf ini akan menceritakan kondisi terakhir sang tokoh dalam cerita, atau bisa juga berisi tentang pelajaran dan pesan moral yang dapat diambil oleh pembaca untuk diimplementasikan dalam kehidupan nyata. 

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