DESCRIPTIVE

PARAGRAPH
A descriptive paragraph describes a thing, a person, or a
place. Detailed information allows the reader to form an
image in his or her imagination. The better the description,
the clearer the image.

Descriptive paragraph adalah paragraf yang

mendeskripsikan person (orang), place (tempat), atau thing
(benda atau hal). Menggunakan deskripsi akan membuat
pembaca membentuk gambaran yang lebih baik di dalam
imajinasinya terhadap apa yang dideskripsikanya.
To write a descriptive paragraph, it usually have them consider
the five senses of touch, smell, sound, taste, and sight. Before
writing the paragraph, make five columns and list words or ideas
for the subject of the paragraph based on these five senses. Like
this columns:

Touch Smell Sound Taste Sight

Descriptive paragraph yang baik mempertimbangkan five senses (5

panca indera): smell, taste, touch, sound dan sight.
 For example, a description of a place
What do you feel when you go there? What do you feel on your
skin? Is it hot or cold? Is it wet or dry? What do you smell? Is
there food? Are the smells good or bad? What do the smells
remind you of? What do you hear? Is it quiet or noisy? Are there
cars moving about? Are people talking? What about the sounds of
nature? Are they present? Even a soft wind makes a sound. Taste
is a difficult sense to describe, and the degree to which you pay
this any attention depends on the subject matter. Sight comes last.
Here you can describe color, size, depth, height, width, etc.
Here's an example of describing a lake:
Touch Smell Sound Taste Sight
water air laughing sand the sun
sand Fish splashing lotion sand
heat food trucks Music children
sun block volleyball lifeguard
toys
Boats
canoes

Lake Harriet is a great place to swim and relax. In the summer, the water is
warm and clean, and the beaches attract people seeking relief from a
midsummer scorcher. In addition to swimming, visitors to the lake can go
canoeing, sailing, windsurfing, or fishing. The blue water is a refreshing,
tempting sight. The sweet scent of sun block wafts through the air from
sunbathers lying on the beach. Children laugh and splash in the water and
nearby volleyball games stir passionate shouts in the heat of competition.
Meanwhile lifeguards sit atop their towers and make sure everyone is safe.
In the distance, sail boats catch the soft breezes that ripple Lake Harriet's
surface, and canoeists glide quietly past. This is what summer is all about!
 My friend Nick

My friend Nick has many likable qualities. He is kindhearted,

very thoughtful, and friendly to everyone. Because he is smart,
he knows how to use humor to get his point across without
hurting anyone’s feelings. Nick is also familiar with how to use
humor to motivate people and how to get people to agree with
him. The most important thing I like about him is that I know he
would never turn his back on me or lie to me or my family. I feel
very lucky to have someone like my friend because I can count
on him in many ways. If your car broke down far away from
home in the middle of the night, Nick is the kind of person who
would get out of bed to pick you up. I have learned how to treat
other people better through watching him, and he has shown me
what it means to be honest and trustworthy.
   My Pet
Gregory is my beautiful gray Persian cat. He walks with pride
and grace, performing a dance of disdain as he slowly lifts and
lowers each paw with the delicacy of a ballet dancer. His pride,
however, does not extend to his appearance, for he spends most
of his time indoors watching television and growing fat. He
enjoys TV commercials, especially those for Meow Mix and 9
Lives. His familiarity with cat food commercials has led him to
reject generic brands of cat food in favor of only the most
expensive brands. Gregory is as finicky about visitors as he is
about what he eats, befriending some and repelling others. He
may snuggle up against your ankle, begging to be petted, or he
may imitate a skunk and stain your favorite trousers. Gregory
does not do this to establish his territory, as many cat experts
think, but to humiliate me because he is jealous of my friends.
After my guests have fled, I look at the old fleabag snoozing
and smiling to himself in front of the television set, and I have
to forgive him for his obnoxious, but endearing, habits.