XI - English

BUILDING BLOCKS       Narrative Text  is a type of text in English to tell a story that has a chronological sequence of events that are interconnected. The purpose of of this text is to entertain the reader about a story.   Characteristics  of Narrative Text : - Using action verbs in the form of past tenses - Using a specific noun as pronoun - Using the adjective to form noun phrase  - Use the conjunction to sort event   Structure  of Narrative Text : 1. Orientation : Orientation or so-called introduction, contains about who, when, and where a story is set.     2. Complication : Complication tells the beginning of the problem or what is commonly called the climax. This section usually involves the main character of the story. 3. Resolution : This section is the end of the story or in the form of a solution to the problem that occurred. Problems can be solved or even worse which will make the story end happily or vice versa. 4. Re-orientation : This part is closing of a story which is o

There once was a fisherman who lived with his wife in a small hut close by the seaside. The fisherman used to go fishing every day. One day, as he sat in his boat with his rod, looking at the sparkling waves and watching his line, all of a sudden his float was dragged away deep into the water. He quickly started to reel in his line and managed to pull out a huge fish. " Wow! This will feed us for days ." Much to his surprise, the fish started to talk and said, " Pray, let me live! I am not a real fish; I am an enchanted prince. Put me in the water again, and let me go! Have mercy o kind fisherman ." The astonished fisherman quickly threw him back, exclaiming, " I don\"t want to hurt a talking fish! Go on! Go where you came from ."  When the fisherman went home to his wife, he told her everything that had happened and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again. " Didn\"t you ask it for anything? " said the wife. " No, I didn\&

  BUILDING BLOCKS Figurative of Speech is a figurative expression commonly used in both written and spoken literacy. Figures of speech are commonly used to beautify words in poetry and prose. Figures of speech are also often used on greeting cards, slogans, motto, and others. In other words, figure of speech is a figure of speech itself is it replace several sentences to make them more beautiful and more interesting. In figure of speech, sentences that are written sometimes do not contain a literal meaning but are only as expressions.   Type of Figurative of Speech : 1. Alliteration is a figure of speech which has function to beautify a sentence. Alliteration is characterized by the repetition of the same or similar sound at the beginning of each word in a series.  Example : - She sells seashells ( dia menjual kerang laut ) - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers ( Peter Piper memetik sedikit acad paprika ) - Black bug bit a a big black bear ( serangga hitam menggigit seekor b