A.
The Definition and Purpose of
Descriptive Text
Descriptive text is a text which say what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.
Descriptive text is a text which say what a person or a thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or thing.
B.
The Generic Structure of Descriptive
Text
Descriptive text has structure as below: Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described. Description; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.
Descriptive text has structure as below: Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described. Description; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.
C.
The Language Feature of Descriptive
Text
Using attributive and identifying process. Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group. Using simple present tense.
Using attributive and identifying process. Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group. Using simple present tense.
D. The language
features of descriptive
a.
Using linking
verb or verb of sense: look, smell, taste, see, seem.
b.
Using three
parameter of sense: visual, auditory and smell.
c.
Using spatial
order or organization
d.
Using multiple
tenses based on the time: past, present, future
e.
Using analogy,
metaphor etc.
My
Cat Gregory
Gregory is my beautiful gray Persian cat. He walks with
pride and grace, performing a dance of disdain as he slowly lifts and lowers
each paw with the delicacy of a ballet dancer. His pride, however, does not extend
to his appearance, for he spends most of his time indoors watching television
and growing fat. He enjoys TV commercials, especially those for Meow Mix and 9
Lives. His familiarity with cat food commercials has led him to reject generic
brands of cat food in favor of only the most expensive brands. Gregory is as
finicky about visitors as he is about what he eats, befriending some and
repelling others. He may snuggle up against your ankle, begging to be petted,
or he may imitate a skunk and stain your favorite trousers. Gregory does not do
this to establish his territory, as many cat experts think, but to humiliate me
because he is jealous of my friends. After my guests have fled, I look at the
old fleabag snoozing and smiling to himself in front of the television set, and
I have to forgive him for his obnoxious, but endearing, habits.