DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

Descriptive Text

Descriptive text is a way to describe experiences according to the five senses.

For example, a writer uses descriptive text to make his writing easier for readers to understand.

Another theory also explains that the purpose of descriptive text is to compare or find similarities between humans and an object, whether it's shape, number, type, or other.

Generic Structure

1. Identification

Examples of descriptive text contain the introduction of an object (place, person, thing, and others). For example, “Rain filled the sky. Make it look like a gray sapphire color: make it gray.”

Take a look at the example above, which one includes identification? Obviously this sentence "Rain fills the sky." When you read that sentence, how do you feel? Do you immediately imagine the atmosphere when it rains? When the air gets colder and darker?

2. Description

That contains the description or depiction of something, including features, colors, shapes, and so on. Then, based on the example above, which one is included in the description? Of course the “Make it look like a gray sapphire color: make it gray.”

With the description, the readers are encouraged to participate in imagining the atmosphere when it rains: how the atmosphere is, the smell, and so on. So, readers will enjoy the story more. The description section is also the most important part in an example descriptive text.