This document defines and discusses the key elements of a descriptive text. It provides definitions for descriptive text, outlines its social function as describing people, places or objects, and describes its common generic structure of identification and description sections. It also discusses typical language features like use of present tense, focus on attributes, and order of descriptive adjectives. Examples are given of descriptive texts about things and people to illustrate the concepts.
This document defines and discusses the key elements of a descriptive text. It provides definitions for descriptive text, outlines its social function as describing people, places or objects, and describes its common generic structure of identification and description sections. It also discusses typical language features like use of present tense, focus on attributes, and order of descriptive adjectives. Examples are given of descriptive texts about things and people to illustrate the concepts.
This document defines and discusses the key elements of a descriptive text. It provides definitions for descriptive text, outlines its social function as describing people, places or objects, and describes its common generic structure of identification and description sections. It also discusses typical language features like use of present tense, focus on attributes, and order of descriptive adjectives. Examples are given of descriptive texts about things and people to illustrate the concepts.
DESCRIPTIVE TEXT our house, crying looking for his
mom. Now, it’s been a year since
A. DEFINITION : Ross come to our family. His small Suatu teks yang menjelaskan atau body has grown up into a size of a mendeskripsikan orang orang, binatang football ball. Ross is a good dog, atau suatu benda baik bentuknya, sifat- and we love him so much. sifatnya, jumlahnya dan lain-lain. 2. Descriptive text tentang B. SOCIAL FUNCTION : tempat : Tujuan dari descriptive text adalah untuk menjelaskan, menggambarkan, Singapore is a South-east Asian atau mengungkapkan seseorang atau country located between Malaysia suatu benda. and Indonesia. Despite its small size,Singapore also was known as C. Generic Structure : the Asian Tiger economy, based on 1. Identification (identifikasi) adalah external trade and its workforce. pendahuluan, berupa gambaran Singapore is home to 5.6 umum tentang suatu topik. million people with a diverse 2. Description (deskripsi) adalah berisi culture. Majority ethnic groups in ciri-ciri khusus yang dimiliki benda, Singapore are Chinese, Malay, and tempat, atau orang yang Indian. Singapore Independence dideskripsikan. Misalnya sifat-sifat, Day was on the 9th of August 1965. tampilan fisik, dan hal lain yang Merlion Statue is the official mascot dituliskan dengan spesifik. of Singapore. Singapore is famous for its Garden by the Bay, Marina D. LANGUAGE FEATURE Bay Sands, dan Orchard Road. • Verb yang digunakan yaitu attribute verb, seperti be (am, is, F. Urutan penulisannya jika kalian ingin are), verb 1 (eat, drink, etc) menuliskan banyak kata sifat dalam • Tense yang digunakan yaitu suatu noun. simple present tense Susunan penulisan kata sifat deskriptif • Hanya fokus pada satu objek adalah: tersebut. Size – Age – Shape – Color – Origins – Noun (cat, mountain, etc) Material. Figurative language (kata2 kiasan) EXAMPLES : Fat young American boy (laki-laki E. EXAMPLES : Amerika yang gemuk dan muda) 1. Descriptive text tentang That cute, funny fat puppy will be mendeskripsikan sesuatu adopted today (anak anjing yang imut, BENDA/ORANG/BINATANG : lucu, dan gemuk itu akan diadopsi hari ini) My father bought me a present I’ve wanted for years. It’s a dog. G. ASSIGNMENT : A puppy to be exact. I called him IDENTIFY THE TEXT Ross. Ross is a small puppy. His size is TEXT 1 TEXT 2 as big as the palm of my hand. Ross VERB 1 is so fragile. Sometimes I afraid I NOUN will hurt him if I want to take him ADJECTIVE FIGURATIV up. Dad said he found Ross near E LANGUAGE