DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

DESCRIPTIVE TEXT

1. 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 .

2. 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.
 

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. EXAMPLE OF DESCRIPTIVE TEXT:

MY CAT GREGORY

Gregory is my beautiful gray Persian cat. He walks with pride and grace, performing a dance of disdain as he slowly lifts and lowers each paw with the delicacy of a ballet dancer. His pride, however, does not extend to his appearance, for he spends most of his time indoors watching television and growing fat.

He enjoys TV commercials, especially those for Meow Mix and 9 Lives. His familiarity with cat food commercials has led him to reject generic brands of cat food in favor of only the most expensive brands.

Gregory is as finicky about visitors as he is about what he eats, befriending some and repelling others. He may snuggle up against your ankle, begging to be petted, or he may imitate a skunk and stain your favorite trousers. Gregory does not do this to establish his territory, as many cat experts think, but to humiliate me because he is jealous of my friends.

After my guests have fled, I look at the old fleabag snoozing and smiling to himself in front of the television set, and I have to forgive him for his obnoxious, but endearing, habits.