Expository and Narrative Texts Functions and Features

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Expository and Narrative TextsFunctions and
Features
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The expository text (or explanatory text)
structures

• Description, enumerative or listing
• Sequence
• Comparison and contrast
• Cause and effect
• Problem and solution

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STRUCTURES

• Description, enumerative or listing
• includes listing connected information, outlining
  a series of steps, or placing ideas in a
  hierarchy

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Structures

• Sequence
• when a series of events leads up to a conclusion,
  which means that these events are not a mere
  succession, rather they are organized

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Structures

• Comparison and contrast
• when you describe how two or more events,
  places, characters, or other ideas are similar
  and/or different in several ways

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Structures

• Cause and effect
• reasons why an event occurred, or several
  effects from one cause

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Structures

• Problem and solution
• this technique is used to identify the problem,
  give possible solutions with possible results,
  and present the solution that was chosen

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Narrative texts

• Narrative texts aim at entertaining, though they
  can also teach or inform, or even influence
  attitudes and social opinions (e.g. soap operas
  dealing with topical issues). The stories set up
  one or more problems, which must eventually be
  resolved.

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Narrative texts 2

• Features
• Characters with defined personalities/identities.
  
• Dialogues (almost always, but not necessarily).
• Descriptive language to create images in the
  reader's mind and enhance the story.

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Narrative texts 3.

• Structure
• The focus of the text is on a series of actions
• Introduction
• Complication
• Resolution

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Narrative texts 4.

• Language
• Action verbs
• Frequent use of past tense
• Specific nouns
• Active nouns (nominalizations)
• Careful use of adjectives and adverbs use of
  connectives
• Use of rhetorical devices (metaphor,simile,
  personification, onomatopoeia)