Have you
ever seen Eifel tower? Or have you visited Kuta beach? Have you met Justin
Bieber? Or have you tasted Bulgogi? You may have not seen Eifel tower from
near, experienced the situation of Kuta, met Justin in person and tasted
Bulgogi, but you may have known them from a friend’s story or reading from
internet. When you read a text that tells you what something looks like, even
in detail, or tells you how the beauty of a place until you can imagine it in
your mind, it seems that you read a descriptive text. Descriptive text
describes the shape, the color, the structure, the situation, the feel or the
taste of something, even their characteristic. Therefore, you can know and
imagine how something is really like, or how the place feels like you are there. The picture below tells you what are in a descriptive text.
Descriptive
text describes the specific object with every detail in it. It means that a
descriptive paragraph only focuses on a single thing. So, when someone writes a
description of a parrot he has, it may be different from other parrots in the
wild or in another place.
A
descriptive text has three elements. The first element is purpose, the second is
organizational structure, and the third is language features. Now, let’s
discuss them one by one.
Purpose
The purpose
of descriptive text is to describe things, people, or place in particular.
Organizational
structure/text structure
Identification
(introduction of the thing/place/person)
Description (parts,
qualities, characteristic of the thing/place/person)
Language
features
- Use simple present tense
- Use adjectives (beautiful, big, small, tall, red, wooden etc.)
- Use linking verbs (is, am, are)
Here is the
example of the descriptive text.
My school library is a favorite place for many students and
teachers. This building is located between school mosque and 9 D. It is in the
middle yard of the school. From the yard we can see a big yellow building
surrounded by palm trees and flowers. That is the library.
There are some posters hanging from library ceiling right before
the entrance door. When we open the black-glassed door and enter into the
library, we will directly see brown wooden chairs and tables arranged in square
shape. They are the place for reading. Students and teachers usually sit there
in break time to read books or newspaper. On the right of the door there is a
silver counter where the librarian sits and is ready to help you. The book
shelves are on the far left and right of the building. They are standing in
some categories, such as story books, text books, social science, math, English,
natural science and etc. The situation is silence and cool because the visitors
are forbidden to make noise and there are some air conditioners. The light
green wall and some pictures make the library visitor comfortable. We love our
library, and we keep it clean and convenience.
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