descriptive text

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Today, i want tell you about descriptive text.

  DESCRIPTIVE TEXT - HISTORICAL BUILDING  

To describe in general about a famous historical buildings.

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:

1. Identification: (contains about the introduction of a person, place, animal or object will be described.)

2.  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.

Purpose of Descriptive text

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

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….

  EXAMPLE  OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT - HISTORICAL BUIILDING  

Here is an example of a descriptive text, historical building.

To describe in general about a famous historical buildings.

Prambanan Temple

Prambanan Temple or also known as Lara Jonggrang Temple is the largest Hindu temple complex in Indonesia. It is precisely located in about 17 km northeast of Yogyakarta city, Central Java. It was built in 9th century during the reign of Sanjaya dynasty and dedicated to the three main Hindu Gods or Trimurti; Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva. Its greatness and magnificence attracts many visitors from around the globe every year.

Prambanan Temple was built on a four-square plane. Each plane is separated by four walls with four large gates on the middle as the entrance. The whole temple complex is divided into three major zones; the outer, middle, and inner zone. The outer zone is an open space and the bottommost terrace of the temple. The second area is the middle zone where hundreds of small temples were standing. The last area is the inner zone. It is the holiest and highest terrace of the temple. There are three major temples of Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma that are standing on the inner zone, together with three small temple of their animal vehicle.