Function - Example of Descriptive Text: Rihanna

This posting is going to give you a short explanation about what descriptive text is. To make it clearer, we also provide an example of descriptive text below.

Descriptive text is a text that has social function to describe a particular thing, people, or place. It means text that is used to describe specific thing, person, or place called descriptive text.

Descriptive text has two parts called generic structure. The generic structure of descriptive text is identification and description. Identification is part to identify the thing, person, or place will be described. The description is part to describe the thing, person, or place e.g. behaviour, quality.

The following is the example of descriptive text. The descriptive text is describing famous singer in the world, Rihanna.

Rihanna

Her full name is Robin Rihanna Fenty. She is a famous singer in the world. She was born on 20 February 1988 in Saint Michael, Barbados.

Rihanna has small family. There are 5 people in her family. They are her father, mother, and 2 siblings. Her father's name is Ronald. Her mother is Monica Fenty. Her siblings are Rorrey and Rajad.

Rihanna likes modelling. She has ever won modelling contest, Miss Combermere. She also loves fashion style. Her hair style changes quite often. Sometimes she performs with curly hair. But, in another chance she appears in straight hair with different colour.

Rihanna is a very success RnB singer. She has won many awards such as Grammy Award and American Music Award. Her songs are known well through the world; Only Girl (In the World), What's My Name?, Unfaithful, Umbrella, Love the Way You Lie, for instance.

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