CHARACTERISTICS/FEATURES OF ORAL NARRATIVES.

1. Oral narratives have Moral values.
2. Chants, sayings and songs.
3. Oral narratives have Simple plot and a major topic of discussion e.g. theft, injustice or immorality.
4. A narrative is an account around a character i.e. people or animals e.g. in a story about the hare who refused to dig a well, we have animal characters.
5. Oral narratives normally have a conflict.
6. Oral narratives have repetition and personification.
7. Oral narratives have Sequence i.e. they start with stating a tale and it can’t end until the crisis is resolved.
8. Oral narratives have Opening and closing formula e.g. once upon a time and that is the end of my story respectively.
9. Oral narratives have Gestures during performance/presentation.