Descriptive Text

A.          What Is A Descriptive Text?

Descriptive text describes a particular person, place, or thing.

B.     Generic Structure

There are two main parts of descriptive text:

1. Identification: It identifies things, persons or objects that is going to be described. It is the part of the paragraph that introduces the character.
2. Description: It describes the parts, qualities, and characteristics of the object.

C.    An Example of a Descriptive Text.

Read the text carefully.

My classroom        I want to tell you about my classroom        My classroom is next to the school library. It is a big and clean classroom. It has tow white doors and six brown windows. The walls are green and there are some pictures on them. There are twenty tables and forty chairs.

  

D.   The Elements of the text above are as followed.

Title	My Classroom
Identification	I want to tell you about my classroom
Description	My classroom is next to the school library. It is a big and clean classroom. It has tow white doors and six brown windows. The walls are green and there are some pictures on them. There are twenty tables and forty chairs.

Identification

This part identifies a particular thing to be described. In the text above, the writer wrote about his classroom, not classrooms in general. Identification usually answers the following questions:

1. What is the topic of the text?
2. What is the text about?

Description

This part describes the parts and characteristics. In the text, the writer described:

1. The part of his classroom (doors, windows, tables, chairs and walls) and
2. The characteristics of the classroom: size (big), color (brown, blue), quality (clean).