Descriptive Text part 1

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Hello guys! What do you think about Borobudur? You must have said that Borobudur is a beautiful, unique, and magnificent temple. In Borobudur there are beautifully carved reliefs. Borobudur is also one of the seven wonders in the world. Well, from what you've mentioned earlier, do you know if it's included in Descriptive Text? Yep, text tha

t describes a place, thing, person, animal, and condition is also included in Descriptive Text. Well, if I do, the Descriptive Text material is really easy. Let's just learn more about the Definition, Purpose, and Structure of Descriptive Text!

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 recognised 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 centre.

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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Prambanan Temple

Candi Prambanan together with Candi Borobudur are the two most visited temples in Indonesia. Both are listed in UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1991. Prambanan temple is named after the village it is located. Presently, it lies in the land of Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces. Therefore, we can easily find the entrance gate to Prambanan complex next to the provincial road connecting the city of Yogyakarta and Solo.

Rakai Pikatan from Sanjaya Dynasty started to build Prambanan temple in the mid of 9th century. Then the work was continued by his successors. Unlike Candi Borobudur that consists of 1 huge temple, Prambanan temple is a compound that consists of hundreds of temples. It is divided into inner zone and outer zone.

The Prambanan complex is dedicated to the three divines god of Hindu: Siva (the destroyer), Brahma (the creator), and Vishnu (the keeper), each has its own temple. However, the largest one belongs to Siva. Each god has a magical vehicle: Siva rides a bull named Nandi, Brahma rides a sacred swan named Hamsa, and Vishnu rides a mythical bird called Garuda. Each of this vehicle has its own shrine right in front of the respective gods. In addition, there are ten small shrines in between them. They are all made up the inner zone.

The outer zone consists of 224 Pervara temples or Guardian temples. They are small in size and identical. Unfortunately, we can only see their foundation. It is almost impossible to restore them, since the stones are scattered everywhere due to the earthquake, looting and thievery.

The walls of Siva and Brahma temples are decorated with relief sculpture of Ramayana epic. This story inspired the famous Ramayana ballet. They perform more than ten times per month. They perform in the open theatre during dry season and in the indoor theatre during rainy season. Of course the best performance is the one in the open theatre during full moon, because the backdrop is the Prambanan complex itself!

Roro Jonggrang’s legend makes Candi Prambanan is also known as Roro Jonggrang temple. This legend connects Candi Prambanan to Ratu Boko. Ratu Boko is a complex near Prambanan temple. Until now archaeologists are still unsure what is the function of Ratu Boko, but it looks like a palace within a fortress.

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