CAPTION

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DELLA SASI KARINI (12)
REDITA MAULIAH (28)
 DEFINITION OF CAPTION

Caption text is brief description, heading, or title that identifier or

introduces a document, graphic, photograph, or table.
 SOCIAL FUNCTION
Helping readers and viewers to understand more information
that might not be in photos or videos.
GENERIC STRUCTURE
1. The Title
2. The Lead
3. Section Heading
LANGUAGE FEATURES
1. prepositional phrases
2. infinitive –phrases
3. participial phrases
4. adjective phrases
5. Questions
6. exclamations
 THE KIND OF CAPTION

Identification Bar Group Identification

It only states the subject It states the subject of
of the pictures or who is the picture, which usually
in picture. more than a person.
 THE KIND OF CAPTION
CUTLINE SUMMARY

it is often be found in the media. It makes information on the

it states who is in the picture picture be more detailed by giving
and what he/she is doing. the information of who, what,
when, where, and how.
 THE KIND OF CAPTION
Expanded Quote

It is a caption that contains a It is a caption that is usually used

completed information and to express a message indirectly.
usually be written longer than Quote it usually taken from a
any kinds of caption. writing or statement of famous
figures.
 EXAMPLE
Identification Bar Group Identification

Gigi Hadid Met Gala 2021  Bob Woodward (left) and Carl Bernstein at
the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C
Cutline
EXAMPLE Summary

Student demonstration against the job creation law

near Monas, Jakarta, Tuesday (20/10). Afternoon
was marked by the burning of tires.
Expanded
EXAMPLE Quote
 EXAMPLE
Caption in a Table Caption in a Graphic
 Rule of Writing a caption?

1. Supply specific information (Answering 5W1H Question).

2. User present tense on the first sentence.
3. Caption are written in a complete sentences.
4. Clearly identify the people and location in the photo.
5. Identify the person from left to right.
 How to a write caption text?

1. Observe the picture or video you will give

the caption.
2. Find out the message that will be sent
from the picture before you write
caption.
3. Write sentence or phrase under the
picture.
THANK YOU