Descriptive Text. Descriptive text is one kinds genre in English to describe about people, animal or thing. Descriptive text is tell about something or place or animal. Descriptive text is written english in which the writer describes an object. In the text, the object can be a concrete or abstract object. It can be a person, an animal, a tree, a house, or camping. It can be about any topic. According to Sanggam Siahaan Descriptive text is containing two component, i. e. Identification and description by which a writer describes a person, an animal, a tree, a house, or a camping as his topic. 26 25 Ibid. According , Ign. Sukasworo,X. Xxxxxxxx, and X. Xxxxxxx clarified in this book,‟‟ Deskripsi( Latin : describe = menulis tentang) merupakan bant uk karangan menggambarkan atau melukiskan suatu onject tertentu guna menciptakan kesan atau pengalaman agar seolah-xxxx pembaca merasakan, melihat, mendengar atau mengalami sendiri yang digambarkan dalam karangan tersebut.‟‟27 Meanwhile , Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx says,‟‟ Teks descriptve adalah karangan menggambarkan seseorang, sesuatu, suatu tempat xxx seekor binatang‟‟.28 ( Descriptive text is composition that describes people, thing, place and animal). Then according to Pardiyono descriptive texy is a type of written text, which has the spesific funtion to give description about an object ( human or non human).29 So, the researcher concludes, that Descriptive text is a kind of text in genre that gives description about thing, living thing or non- living thing. descriptive describes much information about an object, where the information is about the parts, or qualities, or characteristics of the object that is described.
Descriptive Text. Genre is culturally specific text type which result from using language (written and spoken) to keep accomplish something. It takes place through a series of stages and using language in particular ways. A text is usually represents a discourse, although it may be a list of associated sentences and every teaching materials in English subjects always involves text. One of them is descriptive text. Descriptive text is a kind of text that actually tells us about a short description of people‟s characterization, animal, thing and particular place. To began descriptive text must make an identification as a first steps that is introduce the thing that will be described and then continue to the description that will be description also. According to X. X. Xxxxxx stated on Oxford Dictionary that description is a piece of writing or speech that says what is like; the act of writing or saying in words what.1 While Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx stated that deskripsi adalah teks bahasa inggris yang ditulis di mana penulis menggambarkan suatu objek. Dalam teks ini,objek dapat menjadi objek konkret atau abstrak. Ini bisa 1A. X. Xxxxxx, Op. cit., p. 357. menjadi orang, atau binatang, atau pohon, atau rumah, atau berkemah. Hal ini dapat tentang topic apapun.2 It means description is a written English text in which the writer describes an object. In this text, the object can be a concrete or abstract object. It can be a person, or an animal, or a tree, or a house, or camping. It can be about any topic. Supported by Xxx Xxxx says teks deskriptif adalah teks yang menggambarkan karakteristik suatu hal tertentu, suatu tempat atau seseorang.3 It means descriptive text is a text that describes the characteristic of a particular thing, a place or a person. Similarity with Otong Setiawan Djuharie stated teks deskriptif adalah jenis teks cerita yang bertujuan menggambarkan orang, hal, tempat xxx binatang.4 It means Descriptive text is a kind of story text which purpose to describe people, thing, a place and an animal. Next, according to Xxxxx said “Description is writing that appeals to one or more live sense, sights, sound, smell, taste and touch”.5 In this case, description tells about feeling, phenomena, sound (sound of people, animal, thing, etc), smell (fragment and bad smell). While, Xx‟mur said “Karangan deskripsi adalah suatu bentuk karangan yang melukiskan sesuatu dengan keadaan sebenarnya sehingga pembaca dapat mencitrai (melihat, mendengar, merasakan xxx mencium) apa yang dilukiskan it...
