Text Types

• The act of telling a story or presenting events or incidents as they happen is not real (fiction). - Narrative Text
• It follows a chronological order (story books and novels). - Narrative Text
• To entertain the reader.- Narrative Text
• This describes a person, place, or thing.- Descriptive Text
• This uses sensory details in creating a mental picture or a particular mood about a topic.- Descriptive Text
• It is stating exactly the nature, scope, or meaning of something, which requires a very close understanding of the object or person being described; a definition intends to explain the meaning of the object. - Definition Text
• Its purpose is to persuade the reader to come to the same opinion as the writer.- Persuasive Text
• It is achieved by giving examples that will form a mental picture of your point.- Exemplification and Clarification Text
• It is often used to critically examine two or more items from the same category.- Comparison and Contrast
• It is used in analyzing the relationships between the reasons and results of an action, decision, or phenomenon.- Cause and Effect
• It is a text which retells events or experiences in the past that is based on fact (nonfiction).- Recount Text
• To inform and entertain the reader.- Recount Text
• For example, history books and diaries.- Recount Text