Descriptive Text

 

What is a DescriptiveText?

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. So, it can be said that the descriptive text is a text that explains about whether a person or an object is like, whether its form, its properties, its amount and others. The purpose of the descriptive text is clear, that is to describe, represent or reveal a person or an object, either abstract or concrete. 

Purpose of Procedure Text?

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

Generic Structure of Procedure Text?

• Identification 

  In this part identification contains about the general introduction of a person, place, animal or object will be described

  
  

  The function of identification is to introduce something we describe, in order, the reader and listener are not miss-understanding

• Description

  It 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 describes.

  
  

Language Features of Procedure 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.

Example of Procedure Text

THE TAJ MAHAL

The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum recognised as 'the jewel of Muslim art in India'. It is regarded as one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture – an amalgamation of Persian, Turkish and Indian styles.

The most impressive in the Taj Mahal complex next to the tomb, is the main gate, which stands majestically in the centre of the southern wall of the forecourt. The gate is flanked on the north front by double arcade galleries. The garden in front of the galleries is subdivided into four quarters by two main walkways and each quarters in turn subdivided by

the narrower cross-axial walkways, on the Timurid-Persian scheme of thewalled in garden. The enclosure walls on the east and west have a pavilion at the centre.

The Taj Mahal is a perfect symmetrical planned building, with an emphasis of bilateral symmetry along a central axis on which the main features are placed. The building material used is brick-in-lime mortar veneered with red sandstone and marble and inlay work of precious/semi precious stones. The mosque and the guest house in the Taj Mahal complex are built of red sandstone in contrast to the marble tomb in the centre. Both the buildings have a large platform over the terrace at their front. Both the mosque and the guest house are the identical structures. They have an oblong massive prayer hall consist of three vaulted bays arranged in a row with central dominant portal. The frame of the portal arches and the spandrels are veneered in white marble. The spandrels are filled with flowery arabesques of stone intarsia and the arches bordered with rope molding.

The Taj Mahal is located on the right bank of the Yamuna River in a vast Mughal garden that encompasses nearly 17 hectares, in the Agra District in Uttar Pradesh. It was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal with construction starting in 1632 AD and completed in 1648 AD, with the mosque, the guest house and the main gateway on the south, the outer courtyard and its cloisters were added subsequently and completed in 1653 AD. The existence of several historical and Qur’anic inscriptions in Arabic script have facilitated setting the chronology of Taj Mahal.

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