DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

THEORY

DEFINITION The text lists the characteristics of something. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, animal, place or thing

A descriptive text wants you to picture what is being described A nobel might want you to imagine the characters and see them in your mind

CHARACTERISTICS GENERIC STRUCTURE SOCIAL FUNCTION - Identification - Description SOCIAL FUNCTION To describe something or someone in specific 

SIGNIFICANT LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL FEATURES Attributive and Identifying Processes Nouns Adjectives Noun phrases Verbs (Simple present tense)

LANGUAGE It is a language that adds purpose, aesthetic value and emotion to a text The writer can describe exactly how a setting looks how a character behaves or what action is taking place. Descriptive language doesn’t need to be flowery or wordy.

Characteristics Adverbs Metaphors and similes Adejctives Simple Present Tense Adverbs Adejctives Metaphors and similes

Simple Present Tense Tense kind of text. The present tense: often used in this kind of text. Tense The past tense: to describe a certain thing which is extinct or not available nowadays. The passive form: can be used in this case. (Like the past tense)

Adverbs The girl hurriedly drank the juice. The girl drank the juice. Helping the reader get a better visual of what the action might involves. The girl drank the juice. Adverbs are descriptive words that describe a verb.

Adjectives To describe how something feels, looks, sounds, tastes and acts. - Bibimbap is a tasty meal.

Metaphors and Similes Simile Metaphor Metaphors and similes are both methods of making comparisons. Simile, these comparisons are made using words like “like” or “as”. To mention someone swims very fast we can say - “She swims like a fish”.

Metaphors and Similes Simile Metaphor A metaphor is when you use two nouns and compare or contrast them to one another. - “The computer in the classroom was an old dinosaur”.

BENEFITS It helps the wirter to convey the meaning behind the text. The benefit for the reader is the ability to more clearly visualize what is being described.

STRUCTURE Identification Description Identifying the phenomenon to be described Usually answer the following question: What’s the topic of the text? What’s the text about? Description Describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.

We need to identify which particular thing we want to discuss in the text. Structuring Identification is necessary in order to avoid having general statement/clasification which belongs to report text. Identification introduces the main particular topic of the text.

EXAMPLES: Identification: I live with my dad. Description: My dad is big. He has spiky black hair and a moustache. My dad has big dark eyes. His hobby is playing football. My dad is a great football player. He runs very fast. I love my dad.

EXAMPLES

Present The sunset fills the entire sky with the deep color of rubies, setting the clouds ablaze.   The waves crashes and dances along the shore, moving up and down in a graceful and gentle rhythm like they were dancing.

The past The old man was stooped and bent, his back making the shape of a C and his head bent so far forward that his beard would nearly have touched his knobby knees had he been just a bit taller. 

The passive form In my town while I was passing down the street the car was repaired by Sam, a customer was being helped by the salesman and the restaurant's fantastic dinners had been being prepared by Chef Jones.

Metaphors and similes Simile: Your eyes are like sunshine. Metaphor: You are my sunshine. Simile: You are like a rock. Metaphor: You are a rock. Simile: You are as happy as a clown. Metaphor: You are a clown. Simile: He is as stubborn as a mule. Metaphor: He is a mule. Simile: Her heart is like gold. Metaphor: Her heart is gold.

PRODUCTION

My cat Tita Tita is my beautiful blond cat. She walks with pride and grace, performing a dance of disdain as she slowly lifts and lowers each paw with the delicacy of a ballet dancer. Her pride, however, does not extend to her appearance, for she spends most of her time indoors watching television and growing fat. She enjoys watching cartoons, especially Tom and Jerry and Timon and Pumbaa. She likes to eat a lot of Ricocat, she loves to play with me and she is very lovely. Tita does not establish her territory, as many cat experts think, but she doesn’t like to sleep where other cats have slept. What I like about her is that she is very friendly with my friends and she likes to be stroked.