Definition of Descriptive Text

In the communication the text It occupies a preferential place since it is the basic and most used way of communicating orally or in writing. Meanwhile, the descriptive text is that text that is characterized by the presentation of a description adjusted and detailed of a fact, person, landscape, place, or element, among so many other plausible alternatives to be described.

Enumeration of the characteristics

The salient and frequent feature, then, in this type of texts is the identification and enumeration of the characteristics of what is the object of the communication. The singularities and particularities that surround a fact, person, element, landscape, among others, are the nucleus and center of these texts.

For example, descriptive texts tend to abound in qualifying adjectives that inevitably give the text a very strong bias. subjective, something that for example will not happen in a narrative text that stands out for the narration of facts or events, simply.

When we want to explain what someone or something is like, when we want to give an account of the type of feeling that a person wake up, among others, we use this type of text because it is the best way that exists of communication of particularities.

Technical description and literary description

Although the detailed description and the attribution of qualifying adjectives in abundance will color the text with greater subjectivity, we must say that we can also find with texts that inform with rigor and precision the physical characteristics with which the text will be rather objective, that is, in these, personal vision does not intervene of Author or speaker.

The first trend is called technical description because technical data and details abound and a language rather cold, while the second is called literary description and it will command subjectivity and a flowery language, which will be concerned with pleasing and causing a sensation nice through words.

The main aim and objective of this type of text is that the addressee obtains a finished and very real representation of what is the object of the description.

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