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Purpose: To amuse/entertain the readers and to tell a story 1. Introducing group or general aspect
Generic Structure: 2. Using conditional logical connection
1. Orientation 3. Using Simple Present Tense
2. Complication
3. Resolution EXPLANATION
4. Reorientation Purpose: To explain the processes involved in the formation
Dominant Language Features: or working of natural or socio-cultural phenomena.
1. Using Past Tense Generic Structure:
2. Using action verb 1. General statement
3. Chronologically arranged 2. Explanation
3. Closing
RECOUNT Dominant Language Features:
Purpose: to retell something that happened in the past and 1. Using Simple Present Tense
to tell a series of past event 2. Using action verbs
Generic Structure: 3. Using passive voice
1. Orientation 4. Using noun phrase
2. Event(s) 5. Using adverbial phrase
3. Reorientation 6. Using technical terms
Dominant Language Features: 7. Using general and abstract noun
1. Using Past Tense 8. Using conjunction of time and cause-effect.
2. Using action verb
3. Using adjectives ANALYTICAL EXPOSITION
Narrative and recount in some ways are similar. Both are Purpose: To reveal the readers that something is the
telling something in the past so narrative and recount important case
usually apply PAST TENSE; whether Simple Past Tense, Generic Structure:
Simple Past Continuous Tense, or Past Perfect Tense. The 1. Thesis
ways narrative and recount told are in chronological order 2. Arguments
using time or place. Commonly narrative text is found in 3. Reiteration/Conclusion
story book; myth, fable, folklore, etc while recount text is Dominant Language Features:
found in biography. 1. Using modals
The thing that makes narrative and recount different is the 2. Using action verbs
structure in which they are constructed. Narrative uses 3. Using thinking verbs
conflicts among the participants whether natural conflict, 4. Using adverbs
social conflict or psychological conflict. In some ways 5. Using adjective
narrative text combines all these conflicts. In the contrary, 6. Using technical terms
we do not find these conflicts inside recount text. Recount 7. Using general and abstract noun
applies series of event as the basic structure 8. Using connectives/transition