Ada kalanya kita begitu larut dalam sebuah tontonan memukau,
program atau siaran, berita terbaru, acara televisi favorite dan sesekali
buku-buku yang isinya sangat menarik. Namun bersatu dengan rasa kagum dan
tertarik itu mau tidak mau pastilah kita butuh pemahaman terhadap beberapa
istilah yang dapat membantu kita memetik dari sebuah karya yang istimewa,
menyentuh dan bahkan bernilai dan mengukir sejarah. Sebagaimana tokoh-tokoh
terkenal sering dimunculkan dengan latar belakangnya hingga jadi sosok mempesona
dalam kemasan seperti garapan pada illusion
yang membuat penonton tak berkedip. Berikut ‘kopas’ beberapa istilah halaman random saja yang semoga berguna.
Myth : The stories and characters of people, usually as related
to their historic past or early origins. Novelist and poets such as James Joyce
and William Butler Yeats have given prominence in modern literature
Narrative substance : The incident in nature, the act of
person, the imaginative fantasy, the half-buried memory, or sudden perception
out of which a fully developed narrative
can be created by a skillful author.
Narrator : The “voice” that the author has chosen to “tell” the
reader the narrative he has created out of the narrative substance. As the
storyteller, the narrator is permitted by the author to say only by the author
wishes him to reveal at any given point in the narrative. The narrator may be
the main character or a minor one relating either his own or someone else’s
experiences. He may also be almost indiscernible. (See Point of view)
Objective : The critical term given to writing that conceals or
effaces the identity and views of the author. In contrast to subjective, it pertains to the
impersonal statement that appears to be a detached report or narrative, which
in no way seems to reveal the interest or reaction of the author doing the
relating or stating.
Paradox : A statement seeming
to offer an inherent contradiction, but which when though through,
reveals no such irreconcilable opposites. For example: The more he studied, the
more investigated, the less he knew.
Parallelism: The rhetorical principle that holds that similar
ideas should be expressed in similar word patterns or syntactic forms for the
sake of smooth ness and economy.
Personification : The figure of speech wherein human qualities
or attributes are given to abstract or inanimate things. Imaginative writers
who are deeply moved by what they wish to say may resort to personification to
express their identification or empathy with inanimate things. For example: Fog
shrouded every street muffled every wheel and voice, and held in its clammy
clutch all the warm life of the city. John Ruskin called personification that
grows of sentimentally. The pathetic fallacy : rain, clouds, for example, could
be said to be weeping if one happened to feel mournful himself.
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