DESCRIPTIVE TEXT PART 1

Definition, Purpose, and Characteristics of  Descriptive Text

• Descriptive Text is a text that contains the description of an object, which is an animal, place, people, thing, etc. If the text above is an example of a place description.
• The purpose of Descriptive Text is to describe or describe a special object. Communicative purpose of descriptive text is to describe particular participant.
• The characteristics possessed by descriptive text are that the text contains descriptions that focus on only one object. Usually the description is detailed. For example, Descriptive Text about animals. The text can contain various information about physical descriptions, food, habitat and origin, breeding, to unique facts related to these animals. 
• Another characteristic of Descriptive Text is that the grammar tenses used are simple present tense.

Structure and Examples of Descriptive Text

Every text must consist of several parts that compose it. Each text has a different structure depending on the type of text itself. Descriptive Text structure consists of two parts. The first part is Identification, and the second part is Description. Identification (Identification) contains the topic of what object will be discussed. While the description contains a description of an object regarding the details of the object such as the physical state of the object, its origin to other unique facts.

Summary

The Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal is a white marble mausoleum recognized as 'the jewel of Muslim art in India'. It is regarded as one of the finest examples of Mughal architecture – an amalgamation of Persian, Turkish and Indian styles.

The most impressive in the Taj Mahal complex next to the tomb, is the main gate, which stands majestically in the center of the southern wall of the forecourt. The gate is flanked on the north front by double arcade galleries. The garden in front of the galleries is subdivided into four quarters by two main walkways and each quarters in turn subdivided by the narrower cross-axial walkways, on the Timurid-Persian scheme of the walled in garden. The enclosure walls on the east and west have a pavilion at the center.

The Taj Mahal is a perfect symmetrical planned building, with an emphasis of bilateral symmetry along a central axis on which the main features are placed. The building material used is brick-in-lime mortar veneered with red sandstone and marble and inlay work of precious/semi precious stones. The mosque and the guest house in the Taj Mahal complex are built of red sandstone in contrast to the marble tomb in the centre. Both the buildings have a large platform over the terrace at their front. Both the mosque and the guest house are the identical structures. They have an oblong massive prayer hall consist of three vaulted bays arranged in a row with central dominant portal. The frame of the portal arches and the spandrels are veneered in white marble. The spandrels are filled with flowery arabesques of stone intarsia and the arches bordered with rope molding.

The Taj Mahal is located on the right bank of the Yamuna River in a vast Mughal garden that covers nearly 17 hectares, in the Agra District in Uttar Pradesh. It was built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal with construction starting in 1632 AD and completed in 1648 AD, with the mosque, the guest house and the main gateway on the south, the outer courtyard and its cloisters were added then and completed in 1653 AD. The existence of several historical and Qur'anic inscriptions in Arabic script have facilitated setting the chronology of Taj Mahal.

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National Monument

The National Monument or are largely known as Monas is one of the famous landmarks in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. The construction was started in 1961 and was officially opened for public in 1975. This obelisk monument was built to commemorate Indonesian people struggle in obtaining their independence from Dutch colonialism.

The full height of Monas is 132 meters, soaring from the ground to the sky. It consists of three different parts of level. The upmost part is a flame shaped crown which is covered by 45 kg of gold. It weighs about 14.6 tons and has a height of 17 meters. The second part is the top platform. 

It has rectangular shape with the size of 11 by 11 meters. Visitors can reach it by using the elevator; it takes about three minutes long. From this platform, they can see a vast and clear view of the whole city. The last part is the lower platform. 

This rectangular platform has a width of 45 meters for each side. Inside this lower section, there is a chamber of freedom. It keeps many authentic symbol and documents of Indonesian freedom.

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