This document provides information about descriptive text, including its definition, purpose, generic structure, and language features. It defines descriptive text as a text that explains what a person or object is like in terms of its form, properties, amount, and other characteristics. The generic structure of descriptive text includes an introduction to identify the topic, followed by a description section. The purpose is to describe a person, place or thing in a way that forms a picture in the reader's mind. Key language features are the use of specific participants, adjectives, simple present tense, and action verbs.