NARRATIVE

Is a type of discourse that relies on stories, folklore or a drama as a medium of communication.

Stage play, story, folklore etc. are narrative discourse examples.

Exposes a series of events through a plot and story. The narrative although mainly in literary texts, also can be found for example in the news. Its structure contains a beginning, middle and end. Throughout this is a plot that keeps the receiver tuned as not resolved until the end comes.

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Practice

#1

Reading: Images

I
Like a gondola of green scented fruits
Drifting along the dank canals at Venice,
You, O exquisite one,
Have entered my desolate city.

II
The blue smoke leaps
Like swirling clouds of birds vanishing.
So my love leaps forth towards you,
Vanishes and is renewed.

III
A rose-yellow moon in a pale sky
When the sunset is faint vermilion
In the mist among the tree-boughs,
Art thou to me.
(...)

Richard Aldington (England, 1892-1962)

POST-READING:

Explain why it is an Narrative text.

Develop a description of the following images then with his own words create a possible story.