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DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

A. DEFINITION of Descriptive Text


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

B. SOCIAL FUNCTION/PURPOSE of Descriptive Text


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

C. GENERIC STRUCTURES of Descriptive Text

1. Identification
This section is put in the first paragraph - the goal is to identify and introduce

something to be described. It usually contains object’s nameor kind of object.

2. Description

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. You can

describe the appearance or characteristics of it.

D. LANGUAGE FEATURES/CHARACTERISTICS of Descriptive Text

1. Using the Simple Present Tense.

2. Using adjectives (adjective), as handsome, beautiful, tall, small, big.

3. Using noun/pronoun.

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