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    This document provides an overview of descriptive text, including its definition, social function, generic structure, language features, and types. Descriptive text aims to describe a particular person, place, or thing specifically. It generally has an identification section stating the topic, followed by a description providing details about the object's parts, qualities, or characteristics. Language features commonly used include specific participants, adjectives, simple present tense, action verbs, and figurative language. Common types of descriptive texts are those describing places, processes, events, personalities, and objects.

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    This document provides an overview of descriptive text, including its definition, social function, generic structure, language features, and types. Descriptive text aims to describe a particular person, place, or thing specifically. It generally has an identification section stating the topic, followed by a description providing details about the object's parts, qualities, or characteristics. Language features commonly used include specific participants, adjectives, simple present tense, action verbs, and figurative language. Common types of descriptive texts are those describing places, processes, events, personalities, and objects.

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    This document provides an overview of descriptive text, including its definition, social function, generic structure, language features, and types. Descriptive text aims to describe a particular person, place, or thing specifically. It generally has an identification section stating the topic, followed by a description providing details about the object's parts, qualities, or characteristics. Language features commonly used include specific participants, adjectives, simple present tense, action verbs, and figurative language. Common types of descriptive texts are those describing places, processes, events, personalities, and objects.

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    HELLO!

    Suci Mustika Dewi


    State Islamic Institute of Ponorogo
    Faculty of Tarbiyah and Educational Program

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    Descriptive Text
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    DEFINITION
    Did you know what is descriptive text?
    Descriptive text is a type of text
    which gives description about
    an object (living or non—living
    things) such as person, place,
    animal, or things specifically.

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    SOCIAL FUNCTION
    The aim of writing descriptive text
    Social Function
    To describe, represnt or reveal a particular person, place, things, or
    animal either abstract or concrete in a specific form.

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    GENERIC STRUCTURE
    The guidlines of writing descriptive text in
    a good form
    GENERIC STRUCTURE
    ▫ Identification
    The statement that consist of one topic to be described in
    the whole text
    ▫ Description
    Gives details information/description about the object
    which is identified in identification in the form of parts,
    qualities, or/and characteristics

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    LANGUAGE FEATURES
    Grammatical use in a group of sentence to
    help the readers interpret the whole story
    in descriptive text
    LANGUAGE FEATURES

    In descriptive text, it focuses


    on specific participant, uses of
    attributes, declarative sentence,
    simple present tense, present
    passive voice, adjective, state
    verb, adverb, figurative.

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    LANGUAGE FEATURES

     Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one).
    For example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Orlando.
     Adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun.
    For example: a beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in jepara,
    etc.
     Simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple present because it
    tells the fact of the object described.
    For example: Borobudur is one of historical buildings in Indonesia.
     Action verb: verbs that show an activity.
    For example, run, sleep, walk, cut etc.
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    LANGUAGE FEATURES Simple Past Tense
    Formula:
    S + V1 + O + Adv
    Example : Borobudur +is+ one of
    historical buildings +in Indonesia
    S (I/You/We/They) + V1 + O + Adv
    Example : You + place + your hand
    + into the stupa through one of its
    hole
    S + (He/She/It) + V1 + O + Adv
    Example : It + is + hole + can touch
    the Buddha statue

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    LANGUAGE FEATURES Present Passive Voice
    Formula:
    Active : S + V1 + O + Adv
    Example : There’s a dome located
    Passive : O + is/am/are + V3 + by
    + S + Adv
    Example : The temple+ is+
    surrounded +by + 72 Buddha statue+
    each seated inside a perforated stupa.

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    LANGUAGE FEATURES

     Declarative sentence : a sentence that makes a statement, provides a fact,


    offers an explanation, or conveys information
    For example: Niels Bohr was born in Copenhagen on October 7, 1885
     State verb: in the form of descriptive narration, the use of state verb is remain
    useful. Because it help the writer to interpret the whole situation of the story.
    For example: think, believe, have, belong, love, hate, and etc
     Figurative : kind of sentence used to describe the subject such metaphor, simile.
    For example : John’s skin is white as chalk….
     Adverb: in the form of descriptive text, adverb is used to as part of sentence or
    paragraph.
    For example: loudly, fluently, carelessly, fast, and etc

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    TYPES OF DESCRIPTIVE
    TEXT
    List of descriptive text used in common
    TYPES OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
    Describing Place Describing Process
    The text is about presenting a Describing a process is not only
    concrete thing (place) in a to explain how something is
    specific way such describing accomplished, but also to
    about a house, market, explain on why it is done and
    swimming pool, bus station, what is needed to complete the
    library, school or etc. process.
    e.g. Borobudur Temple e.g. How to Be Happy

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    TYPES OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
    Describing an event Describing Describing object
    Describe an event in personality To describe an object
    the real situation and Describe people accurately is done
    physical appearance through providing the
    condition perfectly,
    (hair, eyes, skin), physical objects’
    start from why it characteristics such as
    emotional (warm,
    happen until it’s done. arrogant, etc), attributes color, form, shape, and
    (greedy, honest, so on.
    e.g. Injection of Virus
    humble, etc), and e.g. Plasma Membrane
    in Vegetable intellectual.

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    ANALYZE
    DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
    ANALYZE
    DESCRIPTIVE
    TEXT

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    SOURCE :

    http://britishcourse.com/descriptive-text-definition-
    generic-structures-purposes-language-features.php

    https://www.wallstreetenglish.co.id/english-tips/desc
    riptive-text
    /

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    THANKS!
    Any questions?
    Please write down in the Google classroom comments

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