recount - narrative

GROUP 4Members:

Fitria Ulfa

Imas Wahyuningsih

What is Recount ?

Definition of Recount

Recount is a text which retells

events or experiences in the

past. Its purpose to inform or

to entertain the audience.

Generic Structure of Recount

1. Orientation: Introducing the participants, place and time.

2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past.

3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating personal comment of the writer to the story.

Language Feature of RecountIntroducing personal participant; I, my

group, etcUsing chronological connection; then,

first, finally, etcUsing action verb; look, go, change, etcUsing simple past tenseCircumstances of time and place

EXAMPLES AND STRUCTURES OF THE

TEXT

When I was in Junior High School, I used to cycle went to school.

One day when I was on my way to school, I saw a girl with a long black hair from the back side. I thought she was my old friend.

I called her loudly, “Miaa..!”. Then she looked at me. I was so ashamed, she wasn’t her. So I speeded up my bike and went away.

Orientation

Event 1

Event 2

TYPES OF RECOUNT

Personal Recount: Retelling an activity that the writer has been personally involved (diary entry, biography)

Factual Recount: Recording the particulars of an incident (police report, news report)

Imaginative Recount: Taking on an imaginary role and giving details of events.

Differences between

Report and Narrative

What does recount differ from narrative?

The easiest way to catch the difference is analyzing the generic structure. Recount text presents the past experiences in order of time or place. Recount does not expose the struggle on how to make them happen.

Narrative introduces crises

and how to solve them. It

reveals the conflict among

the participants. The

conflict is the most

important element in a

narrative text. Narrative

without conflicts is not

narrative any more.

QUESTIONS ?

CONCLUSION

Recount text is used to tell past experience that is aimed to informing and entertaining.Recount has 3 types; personal recount, factual recount, and imaginative recount.Narrative and recount are telling something in the past, so narrative and recount usually apply past tense.The thing that makes narrative and recount different is the structure in which they are constructed. On recount there is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative.

Thank You

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