Texts vary in purpose, structure, and language features. Expository texts explain, inform, or describe the world. Narrative texts entertain and instruct through stories. Argumentative texts persuade and change beliefs. Factual texts inform, instruct, and persuade with facts
Literary texts serve aesthetic purposes and use expressive resources. Narrative texts relate actions in specific place and time. Lyrical texts express beauty through words. Dramatic texts are designed for theatrical performance
Texts fall into two main categories: factual and literary. Factual texts inform, instruct, or persuade through facts. Literary texts entertain, enlighten, or elicit emotion through creative language