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Understanding Descriptive Text

The document discusses descriptive text. Descriptive text aims to create a clear picture or impression of a person, place, or object using vivid verbs, precise adjectives, and sensory details. There are several things to consider when writing descriptive text, including the communicative purpose of providing a description, the rhetorical structure of identifying the topic and then describing it, and using declarative sentences and conjunctions for coherence.

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Understanding Descriptive Text

The document discusses descriptive text. Descriptive text aims to create a clear picture or impression of a person, place, or object using vivid verbs, precise adjectives, and sensory details. There are several things to consider when writing descriptive text, including the communicative purpose of providing a description, the rhetorical structure of identifying the topic and then describing it, and using declarative sentences and conjunctions for coherence.

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Descriptive Text

a. Definition of descriptive text

Warriner (1982) said that descriptive paragraph is giving a picture in words that appeal

directly to the sense (sight, sounds, smell, touch, taste). He said a descriptive paragraph is

normally full of vivid verbs and precise adjectives. It depend on detail, not action, to hold the

reader interest.

Wilbur (1966) said that descriptive writing is to create a clear picture or impression of

person, place or object.

Barnet and Stubbs’s (1983), “Description represent in words our sensory impressions

caught in a moment of time. Descriptive writing visual imagery dominates.

b. Guide in writing descriptive text

There are several things which should be known before writing descriptive text. They are:

1) Communicative purpose:

Descriptive is a type of written text, which has the specific function to give

description about an object (human or not human)

2) Rhetorical structure

As explained before, the rhetorical structure of descriptive text is identification

and description.

Identification is a statement of topic or subject which want to be describe.

Description is the detail of identification or the object.

3) Grammatical pattern

The declarative sentence usually is used in the descriptive text. The used of

conjunction is also needed to make coherent devices.

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