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The document discusses descriptive text, which describes what a person or thing is like through their properties and characteristics. Descriptive text aims to describe and reveal a particular subject through sensory details. It generally includes identifying the subject and describing their features and forms.

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Descriptive Text Simon

The document discusses descriptive text, which describes what a person or thing is like through their properties and characteristics. Descriptive text aims to describe and reveal a particular subject through sensory details. It generally includes identifying the subject and describing their features and forms.

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Descriptive Text

 Descriptive Text is a text which says what a person or


a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a
particular person, place, or thing.
 In a broad sense, description, as explained by Kane
(2000: 352), is defined like in the following sentence:
 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.
Thus, if we conclude it from Kane’s explanation
above, the descriptive text is meaningful text that
describes the experience related to the senses,
such as what shape, sound, taste is. Most
descriptive text is about visual experience, but in
fact the experience other than the sense of sight,
we can also use it to make descriptive text.
But in particular, the descriptive text
is, “…… is a text which says what a
person or a thing is like. Its purpose
is to describe and reveal a particular
person, place, or thing.”
So, it can be said that the descriptive text is a
text that explains about whether a person or an
object is like, whether its form, its properties, its
amount and others. The purpose of the
descriptive text is clear, that is to describe,
represent or reveal a person or an object, either
abstract or concrete.
Generic Structure of Descriptive TextWhen writing descriptive text,
there are some generic structures (actually not mandatory) for our
writing to be true. The arrangement is:

1. Identification: (contains about the introduction of a person, place,


animal or object will be described.)
2. 2. 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 describe.
Purpose of Descriptive Text
– To describe person, thing or place in specific.
– To describe a particular person, thing or place.
The Characteristics / 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.
• 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….

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