Descriptive Text

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.  

Generic Structure

1. Identification (contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or object will be described.) 

2. Description (contains a description of something such as animal, things, place or person by decribing its features, forms, colors, or anything related to what the writer describe.)

Language Feature of Descriptive Text

1. Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one). for example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim 

2. The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun, for example: a beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in jepara, etc. 

3. The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple present because it tells the fact of the object described. 

4. Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run, sleep, walk, cut, etc)

Example

Pink Beach 

Pink Beach is one of the beaches in Komodo island, East Nusa Tenggara. The beach is called Pink Beach because the sand beach is pink. The pink color of its beach is a mixture of white sand beach colors mixed with crushed coral, shells, calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates that are very small, and also Foraminifera, microscopic amoeba that has a red body shell. At Pink Beach, there are so many marine organisms. No fewer than 1,000 species of fish, 260 species of coral, and 70 species of sponge can be found here. Having so much marine life, this place is a proper spot for snorkeling and diving for sea sports lovers.