8. Descriptive Text

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 .

* Generic 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:

a. Topic is usually about the attributes of a think.
b. The use of think person pronoun forms is used.
c. The use of focus specific human and non human participants.
d. The use of reasoning expressed as verbs or noun.
e. The use of material.
f. The use of relation and mental process.

* Characteristic:

a. Use the simple present tense.
b. Using detailed noun phrases to provide information on the subject.
c. Uses relating verbs to provide information on the subject.
d. Use the thinking and feeling verbs to reveal personal views about the subject author.
e. Use action verbs.
f. Use adverbials to provide additional information.
g. 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 :

Pussy, My sweet cat

I have a cat. Her name is Pussy. She is my beautiful gray Persian cat. She has a small body. She also has two ears. It has smooth fur. She has four legs. She 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. Her pride, however, does not extend to her appearance, for she spends most of his time indoors watching television and growing fat.

Pussy is as finicky about visitors as she is about what she eats, befriending some and repelling others. Pussy does not do this to establish his territory, as many cat experts think, but to humiliate me because she is jealous of my friends. After my guests have fled, I look at the old fleabag snoozing and smiling to herself in front of the television set, and I have to forgive her for her obnoxious, but endearing, habits.