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Descriptive Text Kelas XI

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Descriptive Text

Grade XI
Definition
Description is about sensory experience—how something looks, sounds, tastes.
Mostly it is about visual experience, but description also deals with other kinds of
perception.

But in particular, the 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.

So, it can be said that this descriptive text is a text that explains about whether a
person or an object is like, whether its form, its properties, its amount and others.
The purpose of the descriptive text is clear, that is to describe, represent or
reveal a person or an object, either abstract or concrete.
Generic Structure

01 Identifications 02 Description
contains about the contains a description of
introduction of a person, something such as animal,
place, animal or object will things, place or person by
be described. decribing its features,
forms, colors, or anything
related to what the writer
describe.
Purpose
1. To describe person, thing or place in specific.

2. To describe a particular person, thing or place.


Language Features
Spesific Participant Simple Present Tense Adjective
has a certain object, is The sentence pattern The use of the adjective
not common and unique used is simple present (an adjective) to clarify
(only one). because it tells the fact the noun,
of the object described.
for example: Bandengan For example: a beautiful
beach, my house, Action Verb beach, a handsome man,
Borobudur temple, uncle the famous place in
verbs that show an
Jim jepara, etc.
activity (for example, run,
sleep, walk, cut)
Example

Pink Beach
Pink Beach or Pantai Merah Muda 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.
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