Descriptive Text

                  The Definition and Purpose of Descriptive Text

Descriptive text is a text which say what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.

          The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text
   Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described.
  Description; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.
        The Language Feature of Descriptive Text
   Using attributive and identifying process.
    Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group.
    Using simple present tense

	A descriptive text is a text which lists the characteristics of something.

Features
	The topic is usually about the attributes of a thing. Third person pronoun forms are used.

Examples (English)
	Requirements for employment The appearance of a person The details of a location

The way descriptive text composed is similar to report text. Both try more to show less than tell. However descriptive text tends to specify the described object while report text will describe the object in general. The goal of the descriptive text is transferring the experience of the writers. The experience can be what they see, read, or feel. Descriptive text commonly tries to reveal the image of certain person, place, animal, or thing. Bellow is the  example of descriptive text .  

Example of Descriptive Text

My House

My house is located in Jl Dewa Anom Dusun Langsat Rendang karangasem no.07. There is wall fence in front of my house to limit the area with the other and many trees such as, mango,rambutan and orange . Besides that, I also have many kind of flower and my front yard is filled by grasses. There is a terrace which usually use for us to do some activities, like chatting with my husband in the evening, doing my homework, and playing  with my child.

The first room in my house is a guest room which functions to receive the guest and at this room there is one set of chair and a table. My guest room is not big enough and we usually use family room to receive when the guest is too many. The second room is my room which contains a bed almost as long as the room. There is a book rack besides the bed to put my child’s books and my books. There is also a desk beside the rack book. It not only uses to study, but also functions to put my bag, my child’s toys, my book, and my movies collection. The third room is my child’s room; there is a clothes closet and a bed beside it. The bed merges with a small closet and it located in the front of bed. The fourth room is family room; at this room, there are a small bed for us to sit down and to sleep, a television, a DVD player,and a sound system . I usually spend the time at this room with my family   and it uses to discuss something or to watch a movie. That room is bigger than other room; so I feel comfortable to spend my time longer. The fifth room is a bathroom which contains of a bath up and two water tap. The sixth room is a kitchen; the first thing that you seeing are refrigerator beside the door, and there is a dining table with four chairs. In front of it, there are two gas stoves, a rack and two windows behind the stoves.

My back yard is divided into two sections by small fence; the first section is the area for my family and me; the second is for my pets and my plants. In the first section there are a well and a small warehouse. The second sections contains of many pets, such as ,dog , chickens, and bird.