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  1. Can you describe these picture? Well, it is a kitten. With black eyes and white-black fur color. What is descriptive text?

    Definition
    Descriptive Text is available for a screen reader device to audibly describe a graph or map so a visually impaired user can understand the graphical information . Or to describe the characteristic of particular Person, thing , or place .


    Text structure:
    • Identification: Identifies thing, person, place, phenomenon  to be described.
    • Description: Gives the information of particular thing, person, or place being discussed or describes parts, qualities or characteristic.


    Language figures:
    • Topic is usually about the attributes of a think.
    • The use of think person pronoun forms is used.
    • The use of focus specific human and non human participants.
    • The use of reasoning expressed as verbs or noun.
    • The use of material.
    • The use of relation and mental process.


    Characteristic:
    • Use the simple present tense.
    • Using detailed noun phrases to provide information on the subject.
    • Uses relating verbs to provide information on the subject.
    • Use the thinking and feeling verbs to reveal personal views about the subject author.
    • Use action verbs.
    • Use adverbials to provide additional information.
    • Use figurative language such as simile, metaphor.


    Grammatical features:
    • Who? What?
    • Using linking verb and simple present tense,
    • Epithet: adjective or adjective phrase,
    • Attributive (the)
    • Use a attributive and identifying process,
    • Focus an specific participants,
    • Frequent use of epithets and classified in nominal groups


    Example of Descriptive Text:


    What am I?

       I inhabit a small area in south-western Western Australia. My species was quite widespread in Australia before European settlement but now we are endangered.
       I prefer areas of open woodland. I forage for my food in the mornings and afternoons. At night I sleep in hollow logs or under fallen timber.
       My body is about 25 centimeters long. My bushy tail is nearly as long as my body. I am covered in a reddish-brown coat with white stripes. My front legs are shorter then my back legs and I have small claws.
       My ears are short but my snout is long I have a very long, sticky tongue for eating termites I can eat over 10000 termites in one day.
       I am a marsupial mammal. What animal am I?

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