10 examples of NARRATIVE texts

It is defined as a narrative text one who is situated in a certain place and timewhether it is real or fictional. It shows all the events that occur in that marked period of time, something that can be done through different types of structures.

In this one Teacher lesson we are going to show examples of narrative texts, so you can visualize what this type of writing is like.

Before showing you examples of narrative texts, it is important that we know well what type of text we are dealing with.

The narrative text covers different types of structures, since it can be narrated linearly, in half res, with flash back or flash forward. In all cases, it is characterized by describing the situations that occur in a specific time and in a specific place.

Next, we show you the types of narrative texts, their main characteristics and some examples. We have chosen Big works literature for it, as they are excellent sources of inspiration.

To identify a narrative text it is important to know its main features. They are the following:

real or fictional

Narrative text can tell an event that actually happened or a fictional story. Newspaper-type texts, for example, recount real events while stories describe imaginary scenes.

With one or more characters

There is no limit of characters in the development of a narrative text, it may even happen that in certain plots minor secondary characters emerge that help to understand the story that you want to tell in your whole.

It has a goal

Narrative text always has a purpose, be it to inform, to entertain or to teach. There is no experimentation in this sense and abstract compositions.

A marked place and time

If something characterizes the narrative text, it is that it is always limited to a specific place and time. Within this you can focus in many ways, in a chronology or in the story of the events that happen in a few minutes.

count an action

It recounts the actions of certain characters and thus composes the story, this is the basis of a narrative text.

The author can be a narrator

The person in charge of writing the narrative text can also be the protagonist who puts himself in the first person to tell the readers each one of the events.

“[The ship] sailed safely and tenaciously; not even the falcon in her turn, flying among all birds, could escort her. In this light way the ship cut the waves; transported a man similar in ingenuity to the gods who in his soul bore the traces of a thousand sorrows suffered in wars and onslaughts of the fierce waves, more than then, all forgotten, he slept sweetly."

"Don't eat garlic or onions, because they don't bring out your villainy by the smell. Go slowly; she speaks with rest; but not in a way that makes it seem like you're listening to yourself; that all affectation is bad. Eat little and eat less; that the health of the whole body is forged in the office of the stomach. Be temperate in drinking, considering that too much wine neither keeps secret nor keeps word. Keep in mind, Sancho, not to chew two cheeks, nor to burp in front of anyone "

“Because libertine or venal lips had murmured similar phrases to him, he only faintly believed in their innocence; it was necessary to reduce, he thought, the exaggerated speeches that hide mediocre affections; as if the fullness of the soul did not sometimes overflow through the most empty metaphors, since no one can ever give the exact measure of its needs, nor of its concepts, nor their pains, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron in which we play melodies to make the bears dance, when we want to move the stars.”