the similarities and differences between recount text and narrative text:
Similarities :
- Both of the text telling story or experience that happened in the past.
- Both of the text using a past tense
- Both of the text has a same purpose, to tell about the past event and entertain the readers.
Differences :
- Recount text contains about an usual story, in diary arrangement, it hasn’t to mention the problems. Narrative text contains problems, inhibitions, and difficulties which must be solved.
- Recount text consists of orientation, event, reorientation. Narrative text consists of orientation, complication and resolution.
- Language features of recount text : Introducing personal participant, Using chronological connection, The, first, etc, Using linking verbs, Using action verbUsing simple past. Language features of narrative text : Using processes verbs, Using temporal conjunction, Using Simple Past Tense.
Example of Recount text:
Vacation to The Beach
Last week, I and my friends went to the beach after school. We used public transportation. We reached the beach at 4 p.m. The beach was beautiful and clean.
At the beach, it was fun. We played football in the coast line. After that, we built a castle from sand. In the night, we made bonfire together. We roasted fishes and squites then we ate them. In the midnight, it was time to share our scary stories. One by one, we told our story.
At the morning, we went home. It was a moment i never forgot.
Example of Narrative Text :
Queen Of Arabia and Three Sheiks
Once upon a time there was a queen of Arabia named Maura. Maura is the most beautiful lady who had many suitors. Almost of it counts had discarded one by one, until just three sheiks reduced to the list. Those three were young and handsome. They were strong and also rich. The queen was hard to decide who would be the only one being the best.
One day in the night, Maura disguised herself and went to the sheiks’ camps near her castle. Maura had an idea to made a dinner for them, “Would you like something to eat, sheiks?” asked her. The first gave her some left in the table over food. And the second one gave her something strange, some unappetizing camel’s tail. The last one who named Hakim, offered the most tasty meat and tender.
After the lovely occasion, the queen left the camp.
Then in tomorrow, the queen invited those three sheiks to have a dinner at her castle. She ordered as same as the foods which is given to queen yesterday. The first sheiks who gave all over the food get the same menu. And he ate all the menu by himself. The second one who gave the unappetizing camel’s tail get the same and ate by himself. The third one , hakim, Get the same menu as he gave to the queen, but he didn’t want to eat it if all the people around him could not get too.