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.
Generic Sreucture:
· Identification : identifies thing, person, place, phenomenon to be described.
· Description : gives the information of particular thing, person, or place being discussed or describes parts, qualities, or characteristics.
Grammatical Features:
· Who? What?
· Using Linking verb and Simple Present Tense
· Epithet: adjective or adjective phrase
· Attributive (the)
· Use of attributive and identifying process
· Focus on specific participants
· Frequent use of epithets and classifier in nominal groups
Example of Descriptive Text :
