4 Types of Literary Text

• Narrative
• Technical
• Expository
• Persuasive
 Narrative Text
• Narrative text is often fiction
• It tells a story.
• It contains a setting.
• It contains a plot.
• It contains characters.
• It contains a conflict and a resolution.
• It contains a theme.
 Examples of Narrative Text
 Novel is a long prose  Diaries a book in
narrative that usually which you record your
describes fictional thoughts or feelings or
characters and events in what has happened each
the form of a sequential day.
story.
 Examples of Narrative Text
 Fables a short story,  Folktales a tale or legend
typically with animals as originating and traditional among a
characters, conveying a people or folk, especially one
moral. forming part of the oral tradition of
the common people.
 Examples of Narrative Text
 MYTH is a traditional story that  Legend is a traditional story
explains the beliefs of a people about the about the past. The main
natural and human world. The main characters are usually kings or
characters in myths are usually gods or heroes. Like myths, legends were
supernatural heroes. The stories are set in thought to be true.
the distant past. The people who told these
stories believed that they were true.
 Examples of Narrative Text
Historical fiction Science fiction is a type
transports readers to another time of literature that deals with
and place, either real or imagined. inventive technologies, futurism,
space travel and exploration, and
other science-based components
 Examples of Narrative Text
 Mystery stories focus on a puzzling crime, situation, or circumstance that
needs to be solved. The term comes from the Latin mysterium, meaning “a
secret thing.” stories can be either fictional or nonfictional, and can focus on
both supernatural and non-supernatural topics. Many mystery stories involve
what is called a “whodunit” scenario, meaning the mystery revolves around the
uncovering a culprit or criminal.
 Examples of Narrative Text
 Play is a work of drama, usually consisting mostly of dialogue between
characters and intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.
 Examples of Narrative Text
Poetry a literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of
experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged
for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.
 Technical Text
• Technical text is non-fiction.
• It gives the reader information to perform a task
• It contains steps.
• It often contains bullets, and numbered items.
• Sentences are short.
• There is no humor.
• There is specific terminology.
 Examples of Technical Text
Brochure is an informative  Classified Ads a small
paper document for advertising, advertisement that you put in a
which can be folded into a newspaper or a magazine, usually
template, pamphlet, or leaflet. because you want to sell or buy
something or to find or offer a job.
 Examples of Technical Text
 Floor Plan a scale diagram of
 Direction an explicit
instruction, assistance in pointing the arrangement of rooms in one
out the proper route . story of a building.
 Examples of Technical Text
 Menu’s in a restaurant
 Recipe’s a set of
instructions for preparing a or café, or at a formal meal,
particular dish, including a list the menu is a list of the food
of the ingredients required. and drinks that are available.
 Expository Text
• Expository text is non-fiction.
• It seeks to explain or inform.
• The information can be verified as true.
• Structures:descriptions,comparison/contrast, cause/effect,
problem/solution.
• Focused on a specific topic.
• There are often headings and subheadings.
• It contains facts and information.
 Examples of Technical Text
Biography an account of a Autobiography- is the story of
person's life written, composed, or a person’s life , written or told by that
produced by another. (The American person.
Heritage Dictionary, c2009) –a historical
account of someone's life, written by
someone else,
 Examples of Technical Text
Report Cards
Charts and Graphs
a report on a student that is
Visual representations help
periodically submitted by a
school to the student's parents us to understand data
or guardian quickly.
 Examples of Technical Text
Magazines Newspaper
A magazine is a publication with a a paper that is printed and
paper cover which is issued distributed usually daily or weekly
regularly, usually every week or and that contains news, articles of
every month, and which contains opinion, features, and advertising
articles, stories, photographs, and
advertisements.
 Persuasive Text
• With persuasive text the author tries to convince the reader to
adopt a particular opinion or perform a certain action.
• The writer takes a stand on an issue.
• There are facts to back up their claims.
• There is an attempt to solve a problem.
• The writer often addresses the opposing side.
• There is a call to action(what can be done to address the issue).
 Examples of Persuasive Text
Advertisements or Debates
Commercials A debate is an organized argument or
An advertisement, otherwise contest of ideas in which the
known as an advert or ad, is participants discuss a topic from two
generally considered a public opposing sides.
communication that promotes a
product, service, brand or event.
 Examples of Persuasive Text
Editorials Political Campaign
an article in a newspaper or other A political campaign is an organize
periodical or on a website effort to influence the decision
presenting the opinion of the making process with in a group.
publisher, writer, or editor.
 Examples of Persuasive Text
Movie or film critique Speech
The study , interpretation and
the communication or
evaluation of a film and its place
in cinema history. expression of thoughts in
spoken words.
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