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Descriptive Text

Descriptive text describes people, places, or things in a specific way. It identifies the subject and then describes their features, forms, colors, or other attributes related to the senses. Descriptive text uses specific participants, adjectives, simple present tense, and action verbs. For example, a descriptive text about Borobudur Temple identifies it as one of Indonesia's largest Buddhist temples located in Magelang, Central Java. It then describes the temple's six square floors and three circular floors arranged in stair-like layers decorated with over 2,600 relief panels and 500 Buddha statues, including a central dome surrounded by 72 seated Buddha statues.

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Descriptive Text

Descriptive text describes people, places, or things in a specific way. It identifies the subject and then describes their features, forms, colors, or other attributes related to the senses. Descriptive text uses specific participants, adjectives, simple present tense, and action verbs. For example, a descriptive text about Borobudur Temple identifies it as one of Indonesia's largest Buddhist temples located in Magelang, Central Java. It then describes the temple's six square floors and three circular floors arranged in stair-like layers decorated with over 2,600 relief panels and 500 Buddha statues, including a central dome surrounded by 72 seated Buddha statues.

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Descriptive Text

1. Definition of Descriptive Text


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. In a broad sense,
description, the descriptive text is meaningful text that describes the experience
related to the senses, such as what shape, sound, and taste.

2. Generic Structure of Descriptive Text


When writing descriptive text, there are some generic structures (actually not
mandatory) for our writing to be true. The arrangement is:
 Identification: (contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or object
will be described.)
 Description: contains a description of something such as animal, things, place or
person by describing its features, forms, colors, or anything related to what the writer
describe.

3. Purpose of Descriptive text


 To describe person, thing or place in specific
 To describe a particular person, thing or place.

4. Language Feature of Descriptive Text


 Specific participant : has a certain object, is not common and unique (only one).
For example: Bandengan beach, my house, Borobudur temple, uncle Jim
 The use of the adjective (an adjective) to clarify the noun,
for example: a beautiful beach, a handsome man, the famous place in jepara, etc.
 The use of simple present tense: The sentence pattern used is simple present because
it tells the fact of the object described.
 Action verb: verbs that show an activity (for example, run, sleep, walk, cut etc….
5. Example of Descriptive Text

BOROBUDUR TEMPLE

Identification Borobudur is one of historical buildings in Indonesia. It is considered to be the


world’s largest Buddhist temple for its size (15129 m2) and height (34.5m). It
is located in Magelang, Central Java. Not only it became a well known
tourism destination to a lot of travelers around the world, Borobudur Temple
is also included in UNESCO list of world heritage site.

Description Borobudur temple consists of six square floors and three circular floors which
arranged accordingly and make it to be stair-like layers that you have to climb
one by one to reach the top of the temple. In the middle of the floor, you will
find small stairwell with couples of stairs connecting each floor that you can
use as a passage to go to the top. On each level of the floor, there are a lot of
relief panels and Buddha statues spread around it. Based on the data, there are
2.672 panels and 504 statues in total. There is a dome located on the top center
of the temple and is surrounded by 72 Buddha statues, each seated inside a
perforated stupa. It is said that, if you place your hand into the stupa through
one of its hole and you can touch the Buddha statue, you will be able to make
one of your dream come true.

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