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Types and Language features of Narrative text

Several language features of Narrative text:

– Past tense
It uses past verb in telling the characters and the events.
For example : were, knew, saw, didn’t know, pretended, etc.)
– Adverb of time
For example : Once upon a time, one day, etc.
– Time conjunction
For example : when, then, suddenly, etc.
– Specific character
The character of the story is specific, not general.
For example : Cinderella, Snow White, Alibaba, etc.
– Action verbs.
A verb that shows an action.
For example : killed, dug, walked, etc.
– Direct speech.
It is intended to make the story lively. The speech cited in the story using
present tense. For example : Snow White said, “My name is Snow White”.

Example:
True Friends

Once upon a time, there were two close friends who were walking through the
forest together. They knew that anything dangerous can happen any time in the forest.
So they promised each other that they would always be together in any case of danger.

Suddenly, they saw a large bear getting closer toward them. One of them climbed
a nearby tree at once. But unfortunately the other one did not know how to climb up the
tree. So being led by his common sense, he lay down on the ground breathless and
pretended to be a dead man.

The bear came near the one who was lying on the ground. It smelt in his ears,
and slowly left the place because the bears do not want to touch the dead creatures. After
that, the friend on the tree came down and asked his friend that was on the ground,
“Friend, what did the bear whisper into your ears?” The other friend replied, “Just now
the bear advised me not to believe a false friend.”

Moral of the Story- A true friend in need is a friend indeed.

# The yellow block >> part of Adverb of time
# The green block >> past tense
# The purple block >> time conjunction
# The blue block >> direct speech.

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