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2. Description:
Contains special characteristics possessed by the object, place, or
person being described. For example, the properties,
physical appearance, and other things that are written specifically.

Language Feature of Descriptive Text

There are lot of language Feature that can be use in writing descriptive
text. And there are some language seauture that can be use in writing a
descriptive text

1. Using figurative language such as simile and metaphor.

Have you use a figurative language?
Sometimes we use figurative language in everyday life
to express a meaning that we are feeling or seeing.

Figurative language is the use of a word or expression with a
meaning in which there is a difference from the literal interpretation. In this
case, sometimes figurative language uses figurative language to make it
more effective, persuasive, and influential.
Describing something, usually using a metaphor to provide an
illustration to the reader. For example: the girl is white as chalk, my love
for you is as massive because the ocean, my love for you is as wide as the
ocean, her skin is as white as snow. Her skin is as white because of the snow.

2. Using the simple present tense.
The sentence pattern used is
simple present because it tells the Look at the picture below!
fact of the object described.
Marked by the use of to be: is/are,
and the use of the 1st verb (verb
1).

For example, my family and I live
in a five-room flat, the first five
terrace of Borobudur Temple are
square and surrounded by walls
adorned with Buddhist sculpture
in bas-relief.

Image 2. Formula of Simple Present
Tense
Image Source: google.images

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