B. What’s the Text?

Directions: Write N if the descriptions below refer to narrative texts and E if

they refer to expository texts. Use a separate sheet of paper for your answer.

1. It is used provide a reader with explanations, the steps in a process, or reasons

to back a thesis.

2. This text is written with the assumption that the reader does not have any prior

knowledge about the topic that is being discussed.

3. There is no story to be told in this kind of writing, and you will not use any

descriptive language unless it is necessary to make a step or reason clearer.

4. Books and journals are examples of this type of texts.

5. This kind of text is written to be used as a tool to show the reader why something

is or how it works.

6. A text that tells a story from a particular point of view and can be presented

using words, images and/or sounds.

7. Its purpose is to narrate events, entertain and engage the reader inan imaginative

experience.

8. This text has a more broad-reaching definition: it includes not just the sequence

of events and their cause-and-effect relationships, but also all of the decisions and

techniques that impact how a story is told.

9. It is how a given sequence of events is recounted.

10. Poetry, plays and novels can be presented through this text structure.​