Matching Pairs Text TypesOnline version Warm-up activity. Hi everyone! Here's my activity for this week. You have to link the type of text and its definition to the right picture; you probably know some of the books there. Hope you like it. by Luis Ramírez 1 Expository. This text is intended to identify and characterise experiences, facts, situations, and actions in either abstract or real elements. 2 Narrative. The purpose of narrative texts is to tell a story. 3 Poetry. It can be written to serve a wide variety of purposes. For example, poetry can be written to entertain, to inform, to amuse, to share knowledge, pass on culture, to advance culture etc. 4 Recounts. Recounts focus on retelling events and are generally intended to inform and/or entertain. 5 Drama. As with narrative texts, the purpose of drama is largely to entertain through storytelling. 6 Persuasion Texts. Their purpose is to convince the reader of the merits of adopting a particular viewpoint or taking a specific course of action.