Descriptive Text (Part 1, 2, 3)
Part 1 Definition A descriptive text usually focuses on describing a single location, object, event, person, or place. It endeavors to engage all five of the reader's senses to evoke the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and feel of the text's subject. Generic Structure Identification is an introduction, in the form of a general description of a topic. Description contains special characteristics possessed by the object, place, or person being described. For example, characteristics, physical appearance, and other things that are written specifically. Characteristics Descriptive Text Verbs used are attribute verbs , such as be ( am , is , are ) The tense used is simple present tense Only focus on that one object. The depiction is done by involving the five senses. Give a picture of an object, place or atmosphere. Provide an explanation of the object being described. It has a purpose so as if the reader can come to hear, see, and feel what is described by the writer himself. T...