Contoh Soal Understanding Narrative Text ,Play (Drama)
Contoh Soal Understanding Narrative Text ,Play (Drama) - In this lesson, you will learn how to understand and how to respond to the meaning of a text, in the form of a narrative story—a play or drama script.
Understanding narrative text: Play
Basically, what you will read in this lesson is a play/ drama script. This script is used as a guideline to a storyline that drama players will act out on a stage. The composition of a play script is very similar to that of a narrative text. As a review, a narrative text is a text functioning to tell the readers an amusing story. Its purposes are to entertain and to gain readers’ interests. It can also be used to persuade or to deliver one’s ideas. A narrative text consists of complication or problematic events and the resolution. A narrative text can be both fiction (novels, short stories) and non-fiction (memoirs, news). It uses imaginative and expressive language to keep the readers interested, and to successfully deliver the stories and the feelings.
Language Feature
In constructing a narrative text, besides generic structure, you should pay attention to its language features as follows:
- the use of adjectives to illustrate the characters and the atmosphere;
- the use of time connectors and conjunctions to chronologically sequence events;
- the use of adverbs and adverbial phrases to locate the particular incidents or events;
- the use of past tense action verbs to indicate the actions in a narrative.
S1
The following are parts of generic structure of a narrative text, except ….
S2
Which part tells how the characters of the story solve the problems? Choose the right answer below ....
S3
Read part of the script below to answer question 3-4.
Once upon a time, in a place not far and not very different from ours, there was a girl named Elia. Her parents were really busy with their works. Elia felt very lonely; she wanted to spend more time with her family.
This part is called ....
S4
Read part of the script below to answer question 3-4.
Once upon a time, in a place not far and not very different from ours, there was a girl named Elia. Her parents were really busy with their works. Elia felt very lonely; she wanted to spend more time with her family.
Based on the play script, the main character is ....
S5
Read the story below to answer question 5-6.
Narrator : Suddenly, Elia found herself to have a pair of wings and was in a strange and faraway place, so different with her own ordinary world. There, she met with a group of children who named themselves Children of Skypea.
Elia : “Who are you?” (feeling afraid but curious)
Children :“You don’t know us? We are the children of Skypea!”
Narrator : Suddenly, people are running, screaming and fighting. Elia was caught in the middle of
the war!
the war!
The above part is named ....
S6
Read the story below to answer question 5-6.
Narrator : Suddenly, Elia found herself to have a pair of wings and was in a strange and faraway place, so different with her own ordinary world. There, she met with a group of children who named themselves Children of Skypea.
Elia : “Who are you?” (feeling afraid but curious)
Children :“You don’t know us? We are the children of Skypea!”
Narrator : Suddenly, people are running, screaming and fighting. Elia was caught in the middle of
the war!
the war!
The problem arising in the story is ....
S7
Read the story below to answer question 7-8.
Narrator : Suddenly, people are running, screaming and fighting. Elia
was caught in the middle of the war!
was caught in the middle of the war!
Surprisingly, when the children had been almost defeated, Elia intervened and helped them to win the war. The children were so thankful that they crowned and made Elia as their Queen.
The resolution of the story is ....
S8
Read the story below to answer question 7-8.
Narrator : Suddenly, people are running, screaming and fighting. Elia
was caught in the middle of the war!
was caught in the middle of the war!
Surprisingly, when the children had been almost defeated, Elia intervened and helped them to win the war. The children were so thankful that they crowned and made Elia as their Queen.
The children made of Elia ....
S9
Read the story below to answer question 9-10.
Narrator : Elia agreed. And so they built a kingdom of Skypea, Queen Elia ruled over it
peacefully. She was happy at the beginning that now she was surrounded by so
many friends who loved her. But ….
peacefully. She was happy at the beginning that now she was surrounded by so
many friends who loved her. But ….
But everyone there had their own family. Even though she was the queen, she
felt lonely. She became so sad and wanted to get back to her family. The
children of Skypea saw that and they decided to let Queen Elia go.
felt lonely. She became so sad and wanted to get back to her family. The
children of Skypea saw that and they decided to let Queen Elia go.
Swiftly, Elia woke up while holding his story book… and found her parents
looking at her dearly. Elia cried and hugged them tightly. Her parents were
sorry to leave her alone often like that. They promise to spend more time
together.
looking at her dearly. Elia cried and hugged them tightly. Her parents were
sorry to leave her alone often like that. They promise to spend more time
together.
Choose the statement that describes what happened to Elia ....
S10
Read the story below to answer question 9-10.
Narrator : Elia agreed. And so they built a kingdom of Skypea, Queen Elia ruled over it
peacefully. She was happy at the beginning that now she was surrounded by so
many friends who loved her. But ….
peacefully. She was happy at the beginning that now she was surrounded by so
many friends who loved her. But ….
But everyone there had their own family. Even though she was the queen, she
felt lonely. She became so sad and wanted to get back to her family. The
children of Skypea saw that and they decided to let Queen Elia go.
felt lonely. She became so sad and wanted to get back to her family. The
children of Skypea saw that and they decided to let Queen Elia go.
Swiftly, Elia woke up while holding his story book… and found her parents
looking at her dearly. Elia cried and hugged them tightly. Her parents were
sorry to leave her alone often like that. They promise to spend more time
together.
looking at her dearly. Elia cried and hugged them tightly. Her parents were
sorry to leave her alone often like that. They promise to spend more time
together.
The moral lesson of the play script you read is ....