Descriptive
text is describe a particular person, place or thing (Rudi Hartono, 2005 : 6).
The purpose of a descriptive text is to tell about the subject by describing
its features without including personal opinion. There are important parts in
descriptive text that must be taught as follows :
a.
Social function
The function of
descriptive text is to give information. Contextual factor or social
context of this text is describing
things. Can be person, animal, or place (a specific thing like our friends, or
person who we know them well). The social function of descriptive text is to
describe a particular person, place, or thing (Rudi Hartono, 2005:206)
b.
Generic structure
The
genric structures of descriptive texts are identivication and description which
identifies the person, place, or thing to be described and description which describe
parts, qualities and characteristics (Hartono, 2005: 7).
A
typical descriptives text has an opening paragraph introducting the subject of
the description; followed by a series of paragraph, each describing one feature
of the subject. There can be also a final concluding section that signals the
and the description.
c.
Linguistic features
The
linguistic features of descriptive texts are focused on specific participants,
use of attributive and identifyng process, frequent use epithets and classifier
in nominal groups (Hartono, 2005: 9). The vocabularies, which are often used in
descriptive texts are words that are related to name of place: location,
purpose, beneficial, presentation, and evidence of today, which are needed (for
building). For animals, the words which are used arew words which describe
clasification, presentation, habitat, behavior, life cycle and beneficial.
Language, which is used the neutral objective language.
Descriptive
texts often used one of the forms be:
present or past, and one of the forms have.
Tenses which are often use are present tense, but sometimes past if there are
things, wich are described had lost (nothing again). Passive forms are often
used too. Describe texts are often completed with photo, diagram, map, etc.
d. The example of descriptive text :
d. The example of descriptive text :
It is the Muse
concert , live from Senayan.
Thousands
of young people are now gathering to see the concert. They are ready to listen
to the music. Now ,their eyes are on the empty stage. A very big and bright
lamp on the stage is on. It’s beautyful.
One by one the group members are walking to the
stage . Matt Bellamy is wearing a black T-sirt and black jeans. He has an oval
face . Christ is behind him. He is wearing a red polo shirt and blue jeans. And
Dominic is walking side with Christ. They they are waving their hands and smiling.
Everybody is shouting and calling their names. This is amazing.