Narative text &

Recount text
9D/06 Evangeline Christy
9D/07 Faye Lynn Ciu
9D/08 Felicia Natalie
9D/09 Felix Huang
9D/10 Gabriella Vanya
 Narative text
Narrative text is a kind of text to retell the story with past tense / telling a story
that already passed and Narrative text is a story with complication or problematic
events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems. An important
part of narrative text is the narrative mode, the set of methods used to
communicate the narrative through a process narration.The Purpose of Narrative
Text is to amuse or to entertain the reader with a story.

Structures of Narrative Text:

Orientation, Complication, Resolution, Re-orientation/Coda
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Sets the scene, where and wh
en the story happened,
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what is involved in the story
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C o m p l ic at i o n 04

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he p ro bl ems w hi ch leads to the
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crisis (c lim a x )
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The problem (the crisis) is reso
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at i on / co d a
Re-orient
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to t he st o ry a nd it is optional.
remark or teaching
This is a closing le sso n , a dv ic e
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moral
It consists of a
from the writer
 Recount text
Recount text is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to
inform or to entertain the readers. There is no complications among the participants and that
differentiates from narrative text

Generic Structure of Recount Text: Orientation, events, re-orientation

Orientation: Gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text,
such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.
Events: A series of events ordered in a chronological sequence.
Re-orientation: A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end
Similarity of Narative & Recount text

- Uses simple past tense

- Uses action verb in the
form of past tenses
- Uses conjunction
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There are a lot of difference in these 2 text but the main
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structure. The structure of a recount contains the
orientation, series of events and reorientation whereas
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the structure of a narrative contains the orientation,
complication, resolution, and coda.
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Recount and narrative are two types of writings that
describe a past happening or an event. If the stages or a
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structure of a narrative text and a recount text are
graphed, a narrative text has a pointed surface.
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