Narrative Text

N A R R A T I V E

To entertain and to deal with actual or vicarious experience in different ways. (to entertain the readers or listeners with the story). Menghibur dan memberi amanat bagi para pembaca atau  pendengar dengan menceritakan pengalaman / peristiwa nyata atau khayal yang mengarah ke puncak masalah / krisis yang pada akhirnya menemukan permasalahan. *Biasanya berupa fairy tales, legends, folktales, myths, fables.

*Orientation: pengenalan waktu, tempat dan tokoh. *Complication: permasalahan yang mengarah ke krisis. *Resolution: penyelesaian masalah.

Memiliki tokoh / pelaku tertentu bias nama orang atau kelompok. Ex: Cinderella, Bedouin, Balinese.       Memakai action verb (kata kerja tindakan)       Past tense (verb 2, was / were)       Memakai  temporal conjunction (kata penghubung yang menunjukkan waktu) ex: once upon a time, once, then.       Memakai saying verb (kata kerja pengungkapan) ex: said, told, answered       Memakai thinking verb (kata kerja yang mengungkapkan perasaan) ex: realized, felt, thought.

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Example of Recount Text

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My Holiday in Jepara

On my last holiday, I went to Bandengan and Kartini beach in Jepara with my family for having vacation. They are my father, mother, elder sister, brother in-law and also my two little nephews. This vacation was suggested by my elder sister. She thought that it was the right time to take vacation together because at that time, her sons also had long holiday like me.

At 6 a.m we left for the first destination, Bandengan beach. It was chosen as the first destination because we wanted to enjoy the nuance in the morning and play in the water like swimming. As you know, beach at noon is really hot, so we were afraid that we could not enjoy the moment if we were there at noon. We arrived in Bandengan beach at 8 a.m. My elder nephew and his father directly went to the water to swim together, but my little nephew was afraid to join them because he could not swim. Once his father forced and guided him to swim, but he cried loudly. Thus, my elder sister and I accompanied him to play white sand while my father and mother enjoyed the nuance by walking and looking around the beach. After we felt that the weather was getting hot, we decided to end our activities and prepared to leave there. At 11 o’clock we left from Bandengan beach and went to have a lunch.

After having a lunch, we got to take a pray and then directly went to the next destination, Kartini beach. We arrived there at about 1 p.m. We chose Kartini beach because a giant turtle statue is located there and my parents really wanted to see it. While looking at the statue, they wondered how big it is. Actually, it is a building which was shaped like a giant turtle statue, so it is called as a statue not a building. In this building, there is a big aquarium, but unluckily, it was closed at that time. Therefore, we just took some pictures there. Then, the ladies likely look for some souvenirs while the men were accompanying my two nephews to take a walk there.

At 2.30 p.m. we decided to leave Kartini beach because we felt tired. After two hours on the trip, finally we arrived at home. Although I felt tired after the vacation, I was really happy because I could go for a vacation with my family.

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Recount Text

Purpose of the text (tujuan teks):

To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

Menceritakan kembali / laporan peristiwa di masa lampau.

*sering menceritakan diary, pengalaman pribadi,kisah petualangan / perjalanan seseorang.

Generic Structure (kerangka umum):

*Orientation: pengenalan waktu, tempat dan tokoh.

*Events: rekaman peristiwa yang disampaikan secara berurutan.

*Re-orientation: pengenalan ulang yang menerangkan rentetan peristiwa/komentar pribadi.

Grammatical Features 

(Ciri Kebahasaan):

•       Memiliki pelaku tertentu atau Specific Participant.
•       Memakai Action Verb (kata kerja tindakan) misalnya went, run, walked.
•       Memakai time conjunctions: then, after that, when, before.
•       Adverb of time, adverb of place, adverb of manner; ex: last Wednesday, Surabaya, slowly.
• Disusun sesuai dengan urutan kejadian. 

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How to Make Nutritious Fried Rice

Cooking fried rice is very easy and simple, so why do not we make it by ourselves? Here, I want to share how to make nutritious fried rice. We can make it as we want like adding our favourite vegetable, slices of meatball, or sausage. The ingredients and the methods to make nutritious fried rice are as the following.

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Limerick, Sonnet, and Haiku

LIMERICK

The limerick, whose name comes from the town in Ireland, is a five-line joke of a poem — witty, usually involving place names and puns, and most often bawdy, sometimes unprintable. A limerick is constructed of anapests, the metrical foot consisting of two unaccented or short syllables followed by one stressed or long syllable: da-da-dum. The first two lines are three anapests, the second two are two anapests, and the last line is three, the whole poem rhymed aabba.

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The Analysis of “A Game of Chess” Poem

A GAME OF CHESS (TO JOHN BRODIE)

By Gwen Harwood

Nightfall: the town’s chromatic nocturne wakes (a)

dark brilliance on the river; colours drift (b)

and tremble as enormous shadows lift (b)

Orion to his place. The heart remakes (a)

that peace torn in the blaze of day. Inside (c)

your room are music, warmth and wine, the board (d)

with chessmen set for play. The harpsichord (d)

begins a fugue; delight is multiplied. (c)

A game: the heart’s impossible ideal-- (e)

to choose among a host of paths, and know (f)

that if the kingdom crumbles one can yield (g)

and have the choice again. Abstract and real (e)

joined in their trance of thought, two players show (f)

the calm of gods above a troubled field. (g)

Analysis

·         The Rhyme Scheme:

The rhyme scheme of “A Game of Chess” is abbacddc efgefg (consist of eight lines and six lines).

·         The Kind of Sonnet:

This poem belongs to Petrarchan sonnet because it consists of eight lines on the first stanza and six lines on the second stanza with different rhymes. Then, from the rhymes scheme, we can identify that it is such kind of Petrarchan sonnet’s rhyme, so it is clearly belongs to Petrarchan sonnet. 

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Prefixes

Root	Part of Speech	Prefix	Word	Part of Speech	The Meaning
school face history dawn	noun noun,verb noun noun,verb	pre-	preschool preface prehistory predawn	noun noun,verb noun noun,adj	taman kanak-kanak kata pengantar prasejarah dini hari
Faith city library island state	noun noun noun noun noun	inter-	interfaith intercity interlibrary interisland interstate	adjective adjective adjective adjective adjective	antar kepercayaan antarkota antarperpustakaan antarpulau antarnegara bagian
logue lingual chrome tone rail	noun noun noun noun,verb noun,verb	mono-	monologue monolingual monochrome monotone monorail	noun noun noun noun noun	bicara sendiri satu bahasa satu warna nada yg datar/sama rel tunggal
true happy fair	adjective adjective adj, adv, noun	un-	untrue unhappy unfair	adjective adjective adj, adv, noun	tidak benar/salah tidak senang tidak adil
aggression dairy count finite profit	noun noun,adj verb,noun adjective noun,verb	non-	non-agression non-dairy non-count nonfinite nonprofit	noun adjective adjective adjective adjective	gencatan senjata tanpa susu tidak dapat dihitung tdk menunjukkan tenses tdk mencari keuntungan
group fuel fill form examine	noun, verb noun,verb verb,noun noun,verb verb	re-	regroup refuel refill reform reexamine	verb verb verb,noun verb verb	menyusun kembali menambah bensin pengisian kembali membentuk kembali menguji kembali
like honest agree	prep,v,conj,n,adj,avd adjective verb	dis-	dislike dishonest disagree	verb,noun adjective verb	tidak suka bohong tidak setuju
understand apply behave direct spell	verb verb verb adj,verb,adv verb,noun	mis-	misunderstand misapply misbehave misdirect misspell	verb verb verb verb verb	salah memahami menyalahgunakan berlaku tak pantas jurusan yang salah salah mengeja
zero script normal soil sonic standard surface par	number,verb noun adj,noun noun,verb adjective adj,noun noun,verb noun	sub-	sub-zero subscript subnormal subsoil subsonic substandard subsurface subpar	adjective noun adjective noun adjective adjective adjective adjective	dibawah nol tulisan dibawah garis dibawah normal lapisan bawah tanah dibawah kecepatan suara dibawah standar dibawah permukaan dibawah harapan
form atlantic figure egress slate port	noun,verb noun,adj noun,verb noun noun,verb noun,verb	trans-	transform transatlantic transfigure transgress translate transport	verb adjective verb verb verb noun,verb	mengubah bentuk lintas samudra atlantik merubah rupa melanggar batas mengubah (bahasa) angkutan/mengangkut
literate legal legitimate	adjective adjective adjective	il-	illiterate illegal illegitimate	adj,noun adj,noun adjective	buta huruf tidak sah tidak sah/haram
relevant reverent religious resolute regular	adjective adjective adjective adjective adj,noun	ir-	irrelevant irreverent irreligious irresolute irregular	adjective adjective adjective adjective adj,noun	menyimpang tidak sopan tidak beragama tidak tegas tidak berketentuan
possible patient perfect moral pertinent	adj,noun adj,noun adj,verb,noun adj,noun adjective	im-	impossible impatient imperfect immoral impertinent	adjective adjective adj,noun adjective adjective	tidak mungkin tidak sabar tidak sempurna tidak sopan,tunasusila tidak ada hubungannya
convenient correct human secure opportune sufficient	adjective adj,verb adj,noun adj,verb adjective adjective	in-	inconvenient incorrect inhuman insecure inopportune insufficient	adjective adjective adjective adjective adjective adjective	tidak nyaman tidak benar /salah tidak manusiawi tidak aman, tidak kokoh tidak menguntungkan tidak cukup

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