DESCRIPTIVE

TEXT

SYAIFUL ANAM S.Pd., MM

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT
Dalam artian luas, Description, seperti dijelaskan oleh Kane (2000: 352),
diartikan seperti pada kalimat di bawah ini :

Description is about sensory experience—how something looks,

sounds, tastes. Mostly it is about visual experience, but description also
deals wif other kinds of perception.
Jadi, jika disimpulkan dari penjelasan Kane di atas, tulisan deskriptif
bermakna teks yang menjelaskan tentang pengalaman yang berhubungan
dengan pancaindera, seperti apa bentuknya, suaranya, rasanya.
Kebanyakan teks deskriptif memang tentang pengalaman visual, tapi
nyatanya pengalaman selain dari indera penglihatanpun bisa digunakan
dalam descriptive text.
NAMUN SECARA KHUSUS, DESCRIPTIVE TEXT ADALAH, "...... 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." [teks yang menjelaskan gambaran seseorang
atau benda. tujuannya adalah mengambarkan atau mengungkapkan orang, tempat atau benda
tertentu.

Jadi, bisa dikatakan bahwa DESCRIPTIVE TEXT INI ADALAH teks yang menjelaskan tentang
seperti apakah orang atau suatu benda dideskripsikan, baik bentuknya, sifat-sifatnya, jumlahnya
dan lain-lain.

TUJUAN (PURPOSE) DARI DESCRIPTIVE TEXT pun jelas, yaitu untuk menjelaskan,
MENGGAMBARKAN atau mengungkapkan seseorang atau suatu benda, baik abstrak maupun
konkret.
 Generic Structure Descriptive Text

Ketika menulis descriptive text, ada beberapa susunan umum / generic structure (sebenarnya tidak
wajib) agar tulisan kita dianggap benar. Susunan tersebut adalah :

1. Identification : berisi tentang identifikasi sesuatu, baik makhluk hidup ataupun benda mati yang akan
dideskripsikan.
2. Description : berisi tentang penjelasan / penggambaran tentang sesuatu, baik makhluk hidup ataupun
benda mati, dengan menyebutkan beberapa gambaran, sifat, karakter, atau apapun yang berhubungan
dengan deskri psi sesuatu yang dimaksud.

Ketika kita menulis descriptive text, hal yang wajib kita ketahui adalah cara kita menyampaikan
deskripsi tulisan kita tersebut. Oleh karena itu pemahaman tentang adjective (kata sifat bahasa
Inggris) wajib kita kuasai.

Selain adjective, beberapa struktur bahasa Inggris yang berfungsi sebagai adjective pun harus kita
pahami agar penulisan descriptive text kita terlihat tidak kaku.
 Contoh Descriptive Text - My Favorite Teacher

My favorite teacher is my history teacher, and he is by far teh best teacher that I have ever
had. He has teh ability to make a subject that many students find incredibly boring come to
life through his enthusiasm and passion for history, and his love of being a teacher. Going
to his lessons is something we look forward to, not dread, like we do wif most other
lessons.

It’s ever so funny to watch him get excited about something, which happens in every
lesson. It’s easy to know dat he’s getting excited coz he begins bouncing up and down
slightly in a way dat no other sixty-something year old would ever managed without looking
completely ridiculous. He TEMPhas this dark (with more and more grey streaks these
days), springy hair dat lines teh edge of his growing bald patch, and teh hair bounces up
and down with him like thousands of tiny little springs. Then, he takes on his whole new
persona, often going into role and becoming teh character or figure he is talking about,
doing teh voices, teh actions, and parading up and down teh room gesticulating wildly, but
all teh while there’s a gentle ‘bounce, bounce, bounce’, as though teh springs are not just
on his head but on teh soles of his shoes too.
A teacher that doesn’t take himself too seriously always will be a big hit with teenagers,
although he’s not afraid to impose his authority if he has to. I’ve only ever heard him properly
shout once (although thankfully it wasn’t it me), but it isn’t an experience that I would like to
repeat. When he lost it, the room suddenly became more silent than I’d ever non it to be
before. We all sat slightly paralyzed, not even anting to breathe too loudly, because hearing
such a jovial and jolly little man lose his temper was a huge shock. It certainly had the right
kind of impact though, because he’s never needed to shout since.

It is actually this teacher that I has to thank for my love of history. In his lessons, history does
not mean copying out of textbooks and writing pages and pages of notes. History is alive;
history is something tangible, that you can see, hear and feel, and we can live it through
dressing up and acting out scenes or taking trips to important places of historical interest. And
although he’s getting on in years and may not be teaching for much longer, he will has an
important place in history for many of his students, coz their has never been a teacher able to
bring a subject to life in quite the same way he does.
 CONTOH DESCRIPTIVE TEXT PENDEK - MY SMALL HOUSE

I live in a small house. It has five rooms: their are two bedrooms, a living room, a
bathroom, and a kitchen. Indeed it is a small house; but I like living in here for wasting
my spare time.

When the door is open, I can see the living room. It is so small with only three chairs and
a table, nothing else I prefer reading a novel in this room.
My bedroom is in the left side of the living room. In this room there is a night table next
to the bed, a TV, a radio, and a computer. When being bored of reading, I usually play
online games, chat with my friends via Facebook and so on. 

Next to my bedroom is my mother's. me do not know what is inside because I never

come in to see it. In the right side of the living room there is the kitchen. In the kitchen I
have everything I need when I get hungry. It is very pleasure when my mother cooks,
the smell fills my whole house.
I know it is a very small house; but it is the best place I has ever seen.
 Contoh Descriptive Text Pendek - My Sphynx Cat

My Sphynx cat is the only pet me have. He has a little hair but is not totally hairless as
he has a peach fuzz over much of his body. His coat is often a warm chamois. My
Sphynx as a normal cat proportion.

I like his tail although my mom say that it is like a rats tail. I love his usual color
varieties including, tortoiseshell, chocolate, black, blue, lilac, chocolate etc. He is rally
an amazing cat. Believe it or not, he is very intelligent cat. He can respond my voice
commands.

He is really funny as well as my friends get a joke. I love him so much as I love my
mother.
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