Recount text

Recount text is a text that is used to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

The generic structure of recount text are:
• Orientation (it gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened, when it happend)
• Event (a series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence)
• Re-orientation (restates the writer's opinion or personal comment of the writer on the incident)

The significant lexicographical features
• Use of simple past tense
• Use of temporal conjunctions (when, after, before, next, later, then)
• Use of personal pronoun (I, we)

Recount text purpose is to tell about past event

Example:

The hounds of the underworld
On night a thief was returning home from a robbery. It was a very quiet night because it was a very late. Nothing could be heard but the sounds of small creatures. He meet nobody along the road. All the people hat a deep sleep.
Suddenly he heard the low bark of the dog coming from the sky. He heard another and another, louder and nearer. He felt very scared a black face and horn behind them coming nearer.