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FACTUAL TEXT TYPES, LITERARY TEXT TYPES, Text Types and Different Styles…

- - - - Are often told as if they were factual.
      - Include gods and/or goddesses, and these figures often have supernatural powers.
      - Include an explanation for how something came to be in the world.
      - Teach morals to their audience.
  - - - Purpose: Dramas serve the function of entertainment for the audience. While reading a story is powerful, watching the story be performed by actors adds a level of realism to the work
      - Main Features
        
        Role
        
        Character and relationship
        
        Voice
        
        Movement
        
        Language and text
        
        Dramatic Tension
      - Structure: The plot structure of a play including the exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution
    - - Purpose: As with all literary genres of writing, poetry can be written to serve a wide variety of purposes. For example, poetry can be written to entertain, to inform, to amuse, to share knowledge, pass on culture, to advance culture, etc. Poetry comes in many forms and sometimes these forms come with their own specific purposes. For example, limericks are crafted to amuse readers, while elegies are usually written to praise or mourn a person.
      - Main Features
        
        Language that appeals to the senses is used.
        
        Imagery is used to paint pictures in the readers’ minds
        
        The sounds and meanings of language are played with through the use of literary devices
        
        The musicality of language is utilised through the use of rhyme, rhythm, and various literary devices.
      - Structure: The different types of poetry make use of a variety of different structures. There are way too many to list here. That said, the structure of poetry usually revolves around the use of rhyme schemes, rhythmical patterns, grammatical patterns, and line and stanza length.
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        Structure: There are many types of narrative text, but broadly speaking, they all begin by establishing the setting and introducing characters. A problem or complication is then introduced, which serves as the driving force behind the ensuing events. After the rising action reaches a dramatic high point or climax, a resolution is achieved, and the story ends.
        
        Purpose: The purpose of narrative texts is to tell a story. That said, there can be many reasons for storytelling in the first place; for example, myths can be told to explain natural phenomena, and legends can be used to pass on cultural beliefs. Storytelling is a means to entertain and inform readers and allows writers to express themselves creatively and imaginatively. There are many types of narrative text, including myths, fables, traditional tales, novels, short stories, etc., to name but a few.
        
        Main Features
        
        Most often written in the past or present tense
        
        Most often uses the third or first person perspective
        
        Language is used creatively to paint a picture in the reader’s mind
        
        Storytelling may be supplemented by the use of images
        
        Characters are often recognisably human in their motivations and actions
  - - - Main Feature
        
        Imagery is used to paint pictures in the readers’ minds
        
        The sounds and meanings of language are played with through the use of literary devices
        
        Language that appeals to the senses is used.
        
        The musicality of language is utilised through the use of rhyme, rhythm, and various literary devices.
      - Structure: The different types of poetry make use of a variety of different structures. There are way too many to list here. That said, the structure of poetry usually revolves around the use of rhyme schemes, rhythmical patterns, grammatical patterns, and line and stanza length.
      - Purpose: As with all literary genres of writing, poetry can be written to serve a wide variety of purposes. For example, poetry can be written to entertain, to inform, to amuse, to share knowledge, pass on culture, to advance culture, etc. Poetry comes in many forms and sometimes these forms come with their own specific purposes. For example, limericks are crafted to amuse readers, while elegies are usually written to praise or mourn a person.