TYPES OF TEXT
TYPES OF TEXT A. Story Genre Story genre consists of four texts, they are recount, narrative, spoof, and anecdote. These texts will be discussed one by one in the following part. 1. Recount a. The Definition and Social Function of Recount Text Recount text is a type of spoken or written text that deals with past experiences . It is a text that tells us about what had happened in series of events in sequence. Recount means calling past memory. It tells what happened in the past. It is a true story. Therefore, this text is written based on someone’s true experience. That is why the subject of the story is I or we. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative . The purpose of recount text is to inform and/or to entertain the listeners or readers or to tell an event in the past time chronologically. In other words this text is aimed to tell the readers what happened in the past through a sequence of events.