Descriptive text

1. DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
By Alya Titania Annisaa’

2.  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.
[Kane (2000: 352)]
So,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.
What is Descriptive Text?

3. The writing will be such that it will set a mood or describe
something in such detail that if the reader saw it, they would
recognize it. Descriptive writing will bring words to life and
makes the text interesting.
Some examples of descriptive text include:
• The sunset filled the entire sky with the deep color of rubies, setting the
clouds ablaze.
• The waves crashed and danced along the shore, moving up and down
in a graceful and gentle rhythm like they were dancing.
• The painting was a field of flowers, with deep and rich blues and
yellows atop vibrant green stems that seemed to beckon you to reach
right in and pick them.
• His deep and soulful blue eyes were like the color of the ocean on the
clearest day you can ever imagine.
• The soft fur of the dog felt like silk against my skin and her black
coloring glistened as it absorbed the sunlight, reflecting it back as a
perfect, deep, dark mirror

5. The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
1. Identification
It is a part of paragraph which introduces or identifies the
character.
2. Description
It is a part of paragraph which describes the character.
(Masruri, M. 2010)
The generic structure of descriptive text consists of identification
and description.
Identification: Identifies phenomenon to be described.
Description: Describes parts, qualities, characteristics, etc.
(Jenny Hammond in Mursyid, M. PW, 2011)

6. Language Features:
^ The use of
adjectives and
compound adjectives.
e.g. :
- a five hundred
seated football
stadium.
- a beautiful ancient
Roman opera house

7. The Example of Descriptive Text
My mother is a beautiful person. She is not tall but not short,
and she has curly hair and brown. Her eyes color are like honey
and her color skin color light brown, and she has a beautiful
smile. Her weight likes 120 lbs.
She is a very kind person. She is very lovely, friendly, patient, and
she loves to help people. I love my mom, because she is a good
example to me. She loves being in the Church, and she loves sing
and dance too.
She is a very good child, wife and mother. She always takes care
of her family. She likes her house to be clean and organized. She
a very organized person, and all things in the house are in the
right place. She doesn't like messes.
She always has a smile on her face. She is so sweet and lovely. I
like when I am going to sleep or went I wake up or when I am
going to go to some places, she always give me a kiss, and when
the family have a problem she always be with us to helps us and
to give us all her love.