DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

By Alya Titania Annisaa’

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?

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

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)

Language Features:

^ The use of adjectives and

compound adjectives.e.g. :

- a five hundred seated football

stadium.- a beautiful ancient Roman opera house

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.