Writing to express Goal of Writing

Model Narrative Paragraph: Snow White Once upon a time there lived a little, named Snow White. She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were died. One day she heard her aunt and uncle talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they wanted to go to America and they didn‟t have enough money to take Snow White with them. Snow White didn‟t want her uncle and aunt to do this. So she decided to run away. The next morning she run away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast, she run away into the wood. In the wood she felt very tired and hungry. Then she saw this cottage. She knocked but no one answered so she went inside and felt asleep. Meanwhile seven dwarfs were coming home from work. They went inside. There, they found Snow White woke up. She saw the dwarfs. The dwarfs said; “What is your name?”. Snow White said; “My name is Snow White”. One of the dwarfs said; “If you wish, you may live here with us”. Snow White told the whole story about her. Then Snow white ad the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after. 38

b. Description

Description is writing about the way persons, animals, or things appear. 39 Purposes of description are to entertain, to express feelings, to relate experience, to inform, and to persuade. 40 The following elements of description: 1 Concrete details. A concrete detail is a specific description that supports, reflects, or expands a writer‟s attitude or purpose. 2 Images. An image is concrete, literal real, actual description of a person, physical object, or sensory experience that can be known through one of the five sense sight, sound, taste, touch, and smell. 3 Similes. A simile is a comparison using like or as, between two objects. 4 Metaphors. A metaphor is an implied indirect comparison between two things without the use of like or as. 5 Connotative language. Connotative words or phrases imply or suggest meanings different from theit dictionary definition; they may carry a positive or a negative meaning. 38 http:www.disukai.com201207kumpulan-contoh-narrative-text-pendek-bahasa- inggris.html 39 Hefferman, op. cit., p. 83. 40 Barbara Fine Clouse, The Student Writer, Sixth Edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 2004, p. 143.