Descriptive Text

Name : Rizka Alfiani

NIM : 1901120004
Class : TBI A
Descriptive Text
• What is Descriptive Text?
• Social Function of Descriptive Text
• Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
• Language Features of Descriptive Text
• Three examples of Descriptive Text
 What is Descriptive Text?

Descriptive Text is a text which

says what a person or a thing is
like. Its purpose is to describing
living or nonliving things or list
the characteristhic of the
person place or things.
 Social Function of Descriptive Text

The social function of Descriptive Text

are to describe a particural person,
place, or thing.
Generic Structure of
Description Text
When writing descriptive text, there are
some generic structures (actually not
mandatory) for our writing to be true. The
arrangement is:

- Identification: it identifies of a person,

place, animal or object to be described.)
- Description: it describe the characteristic
or physical appearance of the person
described
 Language Features of Descriptive Text
– Specific participant : has a
certain object, is not common
and unique (only one). for
example: Prambanan Temple,
my house.
– The use of the adjective (an
adjective) to clarify the noun.
for example: a beautiful
beach, a beautiful girl.
– 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.
 Three Examples of Descriptive Text
Prambanan Temple
My Night Lamp Hanggini Purinda R.
Candi Prambanan or Candi Rara
My Favorite Night Lamp is Jonggrang is a nineth-century Hanggini Purinda is an
Mushroom Lamp. The size Hindu sanctuary situated in Indonesian artist. She is
Central Java, Indonesia. The
of the night lamp is not
sanctuary compound which is
usually called Jeha. Jeha
big. There are three bulbs considered as an UNESCO World has dimple, brown eyes
on it in the shape of a Heritage Site, is the greatest and sweet smile. She is
mushroom with additional Hindu sanctuary site in Indonesia.
tall and thin. She has fair
ornaments in the front of It is portrayed by its stature and
pointed structural planning, and skin.
leave. The mushroom bulbs the towering 47-meter-high (154
has three beautiful same ft) focal building inside an
colors, they are pink. extensive complex of individual
sanctuaries.