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).

contoh teks recount

A.           What is a recount text?

1.            A recount text is a text that tells the readers about one story, action or activity. Its main goal is to entertain or  inform the readers about a past experience.

2.            A recount text tells something that has already happened, such as past activities or experiences.

3.            Recounts usually have the following elements:

a.       An orientation, which tells the reader who was involved, what happened, where the event took place and when it happened.

b.      A sequence of events (event 1 - event 2/event 3), which is presented in the order of the time the events happened.

c.       A  re-orientation, consists of optional-closure of events/ending which summarizes the event.

B.           Purpose

·        The purpose of a recount text is to tell about a past experience.

C.           Text structure

·        A recount begins with an orientation which tells the readers who was involved, what happened, where the event took place and when the event happened.

·        The orientation is followed by a sequence of event which is presented in a chronological order.

·        There can be a reorientation which summarizes the events.

D.   An example of a recount

      Read the text and pay attention to the structure.

My Birthday          Hello, my name is Lusi. I celebrated my thirteen birthday a month ago. My mom and grandpa made a special birthday party for me.          There should be a storyteller in my party. Mommy had invited him to tell many stories to my guests. Unluckily, only an hour before his coming he got an accident. He was on his way to my party, when suddenly a motorcycle hit him and made him injured.           I was so sad imagining that my party would not be interesting for my friends. I thought they would be bored in the party. Until my grandpa came and became my superhero. He invited all of my friends to sit in front of him and he started to tell his funny stories. Everyone laughed. Everyone was happy.            That was really the best birthday party I have ever had, and I was the happiest person that night since my grandpa made me proud in front of my friends. Taken from English for Junior High School Students Year VIII - PIRANTI

 

E.   The elements of the text above are as followed.

Title	My Birthday
Orientation	Hello, my name is Lusi. I celebrated my thirteen birthday a month ago. My mom and grandpa made a special birthday party for me.
Sequence of events
Event 1	There should be a storyteller in my party. Mommy had invited him to tell many stories to my guests. Unluckily, only an hour before his coming he got an accident. He was on his way to my party, when suddenly a motorcycle hit him and made him injured.
Event 2	I was so sad imagining that my party would not be interesting for my friends. I thought they would be bored in the party. Until my grandpa came and became my superhero. He invited all of my friends to sit in front of him and he started to tell his funny stories. Everyone laughed. Everyone was happy.
Reorientation	That was really the best birthday party I have ever had, and I was the happiest person that night since my grandpa made me proud in front of my friends.