3. A caption is a short piece of writing that complements an
image. Captions are usually used to emphasize the
content of articles, reports, essays and others.
According to the dictionary, caption means "explanation
for a picture or illustration", which is an explanation for a
picture or illustration.
DEFINITION
4. 1. Do not use article words such as a, an, or the.
2. As much as possible, use Present Tenses so that the image can be described.
3. Give the reader information that they can't get from just looking at the picture alone
4. The existence of the caption is to complement the photo not replace the photo
5. Caption writing does not need to begin with a name
6. There is no need to write obvious words such as "Above" and "pictured here"
7. Mention names in captions only if they are really important.
8. Start writing a good caption in English with some variations of the following words:
prepositional phrases
infinitive -phrases
participial phrases
adjective phrases
questions
exclamations
How to Write
Captions Properly
5. Types of Caption in
English
The development of media content both offline and online encourages creativity to visualize the best content. Captions are
used to provide more information about an image or to beautify an image. Currently, there are several types of image
complementary writing that can be referred to as captions, quoted from brainly, namely:
1. Identification bar: This type of caption only mentions who is in the image
2. Cutline: This type of caption mentions who is in the picture and what they are doing.
3. Summary: Contains a complete explanation of who is in the picture, what they are doing, when it happened, where it
happened, and why it was done.
4. Expanded: A more complete form of summary, this type of caption also contains how it happened and quotes.
5. Group identification: Same as the identification bar caption type, except that this type is used when the image contains
more than one person.
6. Quote: Contains a quote of someone's words related to the image.
6. As explained above, the
identification bar type of
caption is a type of English
caption that only states who
is in the picture, for example
below. This picture of a star
posing in front of the Taj
Mahal is taken from news
A. Example Caption
Identification Bar
7. B. Caption Cutline
• This type of cutline caption is what
we most often find in images and
writings in newspapers and media
both offline and online.
• The cutline caption states who is
in the picture and what they are
doing, such as this example.
English caption in
the picture below
8. Meanwhile, in the summary caption, the
information we get in the accompanying picture
is more detailed. There is information What, Who,
Where, When. Usually the task of making a 5w
1h English caption example is this type of caption
or expanded caption. In the media images we
can find as in the following example:
C.Caption Summary
9. D. Caption Expanded
Next is the caption with the most
complete information. This type of
expanded caption is a development
of the previous caption, especially
the summary caption. An example
that we can give is the following:
10. E. Caption Group Identification
The caption group identification
seems to be the same as the caption
identification bar example. It's just
that the subject is a group of people,
for example like this
