1. Biography is a detailed description of a person's life.

It involves more than just the basic

facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of
these life events. and may include an analysis of the subject's personality
2. Social Function of Biography: To know a person’s story about his / her life outside of
any accomplishments this person may be known for and to give lots of information easily
and to educate the readers.
3. Generic Structure of Biography: Orientation (Introduction), Events, Re-orientation
(closing)
4. Grammar and Language Features: Use of simple past tense, focus on specific
participant, use of action verb, use temporal sequence and temporal conjunction
5. Historical Recount is a text which retell about the chronological events of memorable or
important history about a place or an object occured in the past.
6. Social Function of historical recount: To describe past historical experiences by
retelling chronological events by involving the important dates, characters as well as
the place of the events
7. Generic Structure of recount:
Orientation : introducing the place or an object, setting of time and place
Events : It contains the series of chronological events
Re-orientation : It is optional. In this part, it contains about the writer’s point of view as
the evaluation about the story
8. Grammar and Language Feature of historical recount:Using specific participant
(person, place, or thing),Pronouns, Actions verbs, Adverb phrased, Past tense, Adjectives,
Evaluative words,Sequence connectors
9. Fable is a a story featuring animals, plants or forces of nature which are
anthropomorphized (given human qualities). A fable always ends with a moral value
which was intended as the lesson.
10. Social function or the purpose of a fable is to amuse/entertain the readers ,to convey
moral messages or lessons to the readers
11. Generic Structure of fable :Orientation, Complication , Resolution
12. Legend is a story or narrative that lies somewhere between myth and historical fact and
which, as a rule, is about a particular figure or person that focuses on a historically or
geographically specific figure, and describes his exploits.
13. The Function of Legend : To entertain or to amuse the readers about the interesting
story (in general)
14. The Generic Structure of legend: ORIENTATION (INTRODUCTION) ,
COMPLICATION, RESOLUTION, RE-ORIENTATION
15. Grammar and language features of legend: The use of Adjective that form the noun
phrase., time connectives and conjunction. use of adverb and adverbial phrases to
indicate the location of the incident or events