NARRATIVE

Narrative is a report of related events presented to the listeners or readers in words arranged in a logical sequence.

A story is taken as a synonym of narrative. A narrative or story is told by a narrator who may be a direct part of that experience and he or she often shares the experience as a first person narrator. Sometimes he or she may only observe the events as a third-erson narrator and gives his or her verdict.

Narrative is used most often in: fables, myths and legend, detective stories, adventure stories. Thrillers, period dramas.

• Generic  Structure   

1.      Orientation            :           usually, there are in the first paragraph in a story.

2.      Complication         :           describing the rising crises in the story or among particint

relationship in a process of social interaction.

3.      Resolution             :           after  rising crises in the story we must showing the way of

participant to solve the crises, better or worse. Yhe end can

be open ended or close ended.

4.      Coda which summarizes the point of the story and moral message we may get.

• Language Form

1.      using processes verbs: tell, says, narrates.

2.      Using temporal conjunction: chronological order

3.      Using simple past tense: present tense. And future tense, present perfect, present continous, and pst continous.

DESCRIPTIVE

Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place or thing. 

It ould also be said that the descriptive text is a text tht describes what kind of person or thing described, good shape, its properties, and other numbers.

• Generic structure

1.      topic sentence                   : what is the topic for we paragraph

2.      Supporting sentences        : who is the object of the paragraph

3.      Concluding sentence         : the conclution of the text

4.      Logical development

• Language forms

1.      using linking verb or verb of senses such as look, smell, taste, see,seem

2.      Using three parameter of senses : visul, auditory, and smeel

3.      Using spatial order in which preposition precedes the verb and the subjects

4.      Using multiple tenses based on the time: past, present and future

EXPOSITORY

Exspository is a paragraph that explains or analyse information, explanation, fact and illustrasion

• Generic structure

1. topic sentence 
2. Supporting sentence: example,detail,charts
3. Concluding sentence

• Language forms

1. Using process vebs: begin, start,continue, become, remain,develop,end finish,culminate.
2. Using indefinite transitions
3.  Using question word mark,such as how and and.
4. Using charts, graphics,and other visual aids
5. Using present tenses either verbal or nominal.