Reading Section

Descriptive Text

by Ms. Suci Ramadani Sikumbang

Descriptive Text

Descriptive text is a text which describes something such as persons, places, or thing. The purpose of this text is to describe something looks like. It has two parts of generic structure; they are identification and description. There must be participants and must use present tense, action verbs, and adjectives.

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Descriptive text adalah sebuah teks yang menjelaskan tentang sesuatu. Misalnya, mendeskripsikan orang, binatang atau suatu benda, baik bentuknya, sifat-sifatnya, jumlahnya dan lain-lain. Descriptive text juga bertujuan untuk menjelaskan, menggambarkan atau mengungkapkan seseorang atau suatu benda.​

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Generic Structure

Identification: a part of paragraph of description text which tells a topic and characters that would be described.

Description: a part of paragraph of description text which tells the content of describing the particular persons, places or things.

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​Identification: Bagian identification berisi pembuka dan gambaran umum tentang suatu topik.

Description: Pada bagian description berisi seluruh ciri-ciri umum sampai khusus atau sifat-sifat yang terdapat dalam benda, orang, atau binatang yang sedang kamu jelaskan.

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My Dog

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(Identification)

My dad bought me a dog on my birthday. It is a male golden retriever dog. I really love him as my pet. 

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(Description)

His name is Jiji. He has brown fur. His fur is really soft and he likes to be rubbed on his belly. He has a long tail and big body. I always take him for walk around because he really like it. Jiji is already as the part of our family.