example of Descriptive Text ( created by : Lily Hayati )

MY PETS

We have there family pets: a dog, a cat, and a tortoise. The dog’s name is Bnjamin. He is big golden Labrador. He is beautiful. He has big brown eyes and long tail. He is very friendly dog, but he is sometimes a little stupid. Dog are expensive to keep but they are fun to play. Our cat is named Martha. She is quite young, but she is not kitten. She is very pretty. She has black and white fur and white and green eyes. She’s smart, too and very clean. The tortoise’s named is Rocky. He has short, fat legs, a long neck, and a very hard shell. He is also very old and slow. He’s ugly and dirty, but I like him.  

MY DORMITORY

My dormitory room, on the second floor of Asrama Daksinapati, is small and crowded. The blue walls and rather yellowish ceiling make the room seem dark, and it looks event smaller than it is. May bed occupies about half of the room. The two windows over the bed are covered with heavy blue drapes. Against the wall on your left is a large bookcase. Which is crammed with paper, books, and other things. Between the bookcase and the wall opposite the bed is a small desk is covered with small posters of my favorite rock singers. On the right and side of the room is a narrow closed with clothes, shoes, badminton racket, and boxes bulging out of its sliding doors can you imagine how dreamful my room is? It is like living in a closed.

KARMILA

Karmila is a beatiful as any Indonesian film star. Her thick, wavy, long black hair gracefully falls down to her shoulders and surrounds her beautify, diamond shaped face (19). A golden suntan usually highlights her smooth, clean complexion. Her slightly arched dark brown eyebrows draw attention to her deep brown eyes. Her eyes are large, but not too large, with thick eyes lashes. Her nose is straight and neither too long nor too short. A small black mole on the left side of her mouth adds to her beauty and her mouth is small and looks delicate and feminine. Her lips are rather thin, but not too thin; her light pink lipstick adds another touch of feminine beauty. When she smiles, which is often, her well-formed and even white teeth brighten up her whole face. There is nothing but extraordinary beauty in the place of karmila.   

Prambanan Temple

The Prambanan Temple, which is well-known as the temple of Lara Jonggrang, is one of the cultural inheritances from the ancestors of Indonesian people having worldwide international value. The Prambanan Temple is to be biggest Hindu temple in the world. This temple has been known well all over the world since many years ago. Lots of local as well as foreign visitors have come for a close look at the temple.

Prambanan Temple, which is located in the village of Karang Asem, the ward of Bokoharjo, the Prambanan district of Sleman Regency of Yogyakarta Province, was built by Rakai Pikatan , the secend king of Mataram dynasty in 850 AC. Recently, all of the land around the temple that covers not less than 20 hectares has been freed from the inhabitants. Today, in this vast land has been built on open theater, an indoor theater, offices, an archeological museum, a parking area, a cafeteria, a souvenirs shop, asphalt road, and all other means supporting tourism.

The ornamental motifs chiseled in the Lara Jonggrang temple are very luxurious and various: Prambanan motifs, flora motifs, and fauna motifs. The carving of the Prambanan motifs are located between the lower frame and the upper frame of the balustrades at the outside part of the foot of the temple. This motifs is one of the special characteristics found in Lara Jonggrang temple and none of the kind is found in other temples in Indonesia.

The very fine carving with extra-ordinary imagination has totals 135 panels surrounding each of the balustrades in eah temple. They can be classified as follows:

1.      Civa temple                          : 32 panels

2.      Brahma temple                     : 23 panels

3.       Wisnu temple                      : 23 panels

4.      Nandi temple                        : 19 panels

5.      Temple A (eagle)                  : 19 panels

6.      Temple B (goose)                 : 19 panels

The flora motifs or the motifs from the world of plants are numerous on the foot as well as the body of the temple. Those motifs are especially the leaves of the tree, which are depicted in naturalistic idealized form.

The fauna motifs or the animal world motifs are only found on the foot of the Civa, Wisnu, Brahma, Wahana, and Apit temples. In this depiction, the fauna motifs are naturalistic. The kinds of animals depicted are goose, dog, hen, squirrel, crocodile, hawk, fish, elephant, tiger, reptile, cockatoo, horse, snail, crow, crab, dove, parrot, deer, cow, rat, lion, and snake.