Definition of 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.

Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

When writing descriptive text, there are some generic structures (actually not mandatory) for our
writing to be true. The arrangement is:

 Identification: (contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or object will be
described.)
 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.

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….

Cat

Cat or Felis (called in Latin), are carnivorous or meat-eaters. The word “cat” is said to represent an
animal that has been domesticated. However, cats actually can be a tiger, lion, and cheetah which
are a kind of wild animal.

A home cat which is quite familiar, is a mammal that has four legs, a tail, two pointy ears, and bushy
hair. The feet have the sharp claws. You must be careful when holding the leg of a cat, because the
claws are so powerful and can hurt both your hands and body.

Cat’s tail is used as a tool to communicate and to maintain the body balance. Two pointy cat ears
have very good hearing. Cats even have a hearing performance two times than dogs and seven times
better than human. The bushy hair is an attraction because some colors are striking and beautiful.

One thing that you should not forget is the cat’s moustaches. Cats have moustaches whose function
is to detect preys in the dark. It is also used to know their emotions. When it leaning forward, then
the cat is being friendly, but when leaning back, then they are in an aggressive condition. Last, the
function of those is determining the change of wind direction.

Cat as the most popular pet in the world has a weight between 2.5 to 7 kilograms. Only a few cats
that are able to weigh up to 10 kilograms. However, if fed in excess, you can see that the cat has a
weight up to 23 pounds.
They can live up to 15-20 years. However, we now see that a cat only just able to live up to the age
of 3-4 years. Meanwhile, they called as the sleeping animal. Cats can spend up to 16 hours every day
only for sleeping. In addition to sleep, their another habit is licking their body in order to cleanse the
body of impurities.

In Indonesia, we usually find some kind of cats including domestic cats, Persian, Angora, Himalayan,
Maine Coon, and Bengal Cats.