DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Have you ever tell something in details? And have you ever tell your favorite thing to your friend?? If the answer is yes, truly you describe that using a kind of text named “descriptive text”

Here we go!!!!

®      Descriptive text is a text which say what a person or a thing is like.

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

®      In spoken form, we sometimes use some fillera, such as: you know, er…, um…, etc.


The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

1. Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described.
2. Description; give the information of particular thing, person, place being discussed

®      Grammatical features of descriptive text :

·       Who? What?

·       Using Linking verb and Simple Present Tense

·       Epithet: adjective or adjective phrase

·       Attributive (the)

·       Use of attributive and identifying process

·       Focus on specific participants

·       Frequent use of epithets and classifier in nominal groups

Here.. I give you one example of descriptive text J

My Toy Clown

On one corner of my dresser sits a smiling toy clown on a tiny unicycle--a gift I received last Christmas from a close friend. (identification)

The clown's short yellow hair, made of yarn, covers its ears but is parted above the eyes. The blue eyes are outlined in black with thin, dark lashes flowing from the brows. It has cherry-red cheeks, nose, and lips, and its broad grin disappears into the wide, white ruffle around its neck. The clown wears a fluffy, two-tone nylon costume. The left side of the outfit is light blue, and the right side is red. The two colors merge in a dark line that runs down the center of the small outfit. Surrounding its ankles and disguising its long black shoes are big pink bows. The white spokes on the wheels of the unicycle gather in the center and expand to the black tire so that the wheel somewhat resembles the inner half of a grapefruit. The clown and unicycle together stand about a foot high. As a cherished gift from my good friend Tran, this colorful figure greets me with a smile every time I enter my room. (description)

Taken from : http://magazineforum.blogspot.com/2010/09/kumpulan-contoh-descriptive-text-bahasa.html