Descibing people
DEFINITION:According to Cambridge dictionaries:
"DESCRIPTIVE"
Describing something, especially in a
detailed, interesting way
Descriptive text 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. Descriptive Text is a kind of text with a purpose to give information. The context of this kind of text is the description of particular thing, animal, person, or others, for instance: our pets or a person we know well. It differs from Report which describes things, animals, persons, or others in general.
Social function: To describe a particular person, place, or thing.
Generic structure of analysis
a) Identification :Identifying the phenomenon to be described.
b) Description: describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and characteristics.
Language Feature Analysis
a) Certain nouns: teacher, house,my rabbit, etc.
b) Simple present tense.
c) Detailed noun phrase for adding information about the subject: She is a sweet young lady, etc.
d) Descriptive adjectives, e.g. two strong legs, two white fangs, etc.
e) Relating verbs for giving information about the subject: My mum is really cool, It has very thick fur, etc.
f) Thinking verbs and feeling verbs for expressing the writer’s personal opinion about the subject: I think it is a clever animal, etc.
g) action verbs, e.g.Our new puppy bites our shoes, etc.
h) Adverbials, for example, fast, at the tree house, etc.
i) Figurative language, such as simile, metafore, e.g.John is white as chalk, sat tight, etc.
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