Textual Genre: Personal Testimony

The text discusses the personal testimony genre, also known as a narrative or account, focusing on narrating real-life events experienced by an individual with an educational intent to add value to readers.

Elements of Narrative

• Narratives include basic elements such as a sequence of events, people, times (chronological or not), and space.

• Language in personal testimonies predominantly uses first-person verbs and pronouns. Verb tenses vary between Present Indicative for immediate events and Imperfect Past for temporal distance.

Structure of Testimonies

• Testimonies often employ informal language based on the type of narrative, incorporating first-person authorial marks.

• They present life experiences through a narrative structure involving sequences of events, people, time, space, and the author's perspective.

Narrative Characteristics and Writing

This section delves into the characteristics of narratives within personal testimonies and encourages viewers to engage in writing their own narratives.

Narrative Features

• Narratives can be chronological or non-linear, emphasizing significant facts for the narrator based on true events from personal memory.