Descriptive Text

Descriptive Text

What is it?

Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a thing is like.

Its purpose is to give information, describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

Description is about sensory experience—how something looks, sounds, tastes.

Mostly it is about visual experience, but description also deals with other kinds of perception.

Structure Text (Generic Structure)

Descriptive text has its own rules in writing, including in the structure or composition of which must be written in order.

If you are prompted to create descriptive text, then make sure the structure is as follows.

Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

When writing descriptive text, there are some generic structures (actually not mandatory) for our writing to be true.

The arrangement is...

Identification:

Contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or object will be described. In this section of the first paragraph - the goal is to identify something to be described or depicted. Easy explanation, Identification serves to introduce the reader to the object or something that we have described before we tell about its properties.

Description

Contains a description of something such as animal, things, place or person by describing its features, forms, colors, or anything related to what the writer describes. This section in the second paragraph and so on - contains the properties inherent in something that you already introduced to the reader in the first paragraph.

Purpose of Descriptive text

• To describe person, thing or place in specific

• To describe a particular person, thing or place.

Language Feature of Descriptive Text

• Specific participant: has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one). for example Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim

• The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for example: a beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in Jepara, etc.

Language Feature of Descriptive Text

• The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple present because it tells the fact of the object described.

• Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run, sleep, walk, cut etc…

Tips to write descriptive text

• Make sure to choose a meaningful person, place, or thing.

• Introduce the person, place, or thing you are describing. 

• Engage your reader’s sense of sight.

• Describe smells and tastes if you can.

• Describe how the moment or item feels

Tips to write descriptive text

• Describe how your subject sounds.

• Make unique observations

• Include some figurative language.

• Wrap it up (finish)

Multiple Choice

What is descriptive text ?

• a kind of text wih a purpose to give direction

• a kind of text with a purpose to give information

• a kind of text with a purpose to give maintanance

Multiple Choice

What is the context of descriptive text ?

• The meaning of something that are very useful of the person

• The habitual things that tells to other

• The description of particular thing, animal, person or others, for instance :our pets or a person

Multiple Choice

What is the function of descriptive text?

• to hire something

• to guiding a trip

• to describe a particular person, place or things

• to giving direction to other

Multiple Choice

What are the generic structure of descriptive text?

• General Clasification and Description

• Orientation, Complication, Resolution and Coda / reorientation (optional)

• Orientation, Events and Re-orientation

• Identification and description

Multiple Choice

Singapore is a South-east Asian country located between Malaysia and Indonesia. Despite its small size, Singapore is known for its transition as a third-world country to the first-world country. Singapore also was known as the Asian Tiger economy, based on external trade and its workforce. Singapore size is not as big as Indonesia, but the city ranks highly in numerous international rankings for its education, entertainment, finance, healthcare, human capital, innovation, logistics, manufacturing, technology, tourism, trade, and transport.

it's describe about......

• Place

• Person

• Animal