Download - 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.
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