Descriptive Text Quiz

What is descriptive text?

• A text that aims to describe someone, something, a place or animal in specific way.

• A story with complication or problematic events and it tries to find the resolutions to solve the problems.

• A text that is designed to describe how something is achieved through a sequence of actions or steps.

• A text to evaluate a publication, such as a movie, book or an event or performance.

The Purpose of descriptive text is

• To tell how to make something

• To entertain the readers

• To describe someone, place, or a thing

• To advertise the product

The generic structure of Descriptive text is...

• General Classification - Description

• Identification - Description

• Identification - Steps

• Orientation - Event - Reorientation

Below are the language feature of descriptive text, except . . .

• using adjective

• using simple present

• using imperative sentence

• using specific participant

Why we use "simple present tense" in descriptive text?

• Because it tells the fact of the object described.

• Because it tells something happened in the past.

• Because it tells the estimation of the object described.

• Because it tells the opinion of the object described.

"In addition, Makassar is the home of pisang epe, or pressed bananas. These are bananas which are pressed, grilled, and covered with palm sugar sauce and sometimes eaten with Durian."

Which of the pictures that is appropriate with the description above?

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"Giraffe is the tallest animal. I saw it in Ragunan zoo. It is about six meter tall. It has big brown eyes. It has brown spots on its skin. It also has two short horns on its head. It likes eating leaves of tree."

What is the purpose of the text?

• to tell about elephant

• to tell about tall animal

• to describe Ragunan zoo

• to describe giraffe

I love cats very much. I keep some cats in my house. They are Abooy, Olive, Bubul and Sincan. Abooy is grey. It’s big and strong. Olive is black and small. Bubul is brown, yellow and red. The last is Sincan. Sincan is white. I always take care of my cats everyday.

'‘It’s big and strong’'. The word "It" refers to….

• Olive

• Abooy

• Bubul

• Sincan

The man check the patient. He ....... a doctor.

• is

• was

• are

• will

What kind of tenses which use for descriptive text?

• Past Tense

• Perfect Tense

• Future Tense

• Present Tense