Reading 5

Assalamualaikum to readers. This week has been a very hectic yet fun week for all Decom semester 4 Jan- June 2009. With cultural event and assignment to be submitted at that time, I think all manage to finish and submit their assignment, and went for the cultural event. Alhamdulillah. It was really a fun week for me and the rest of my colleague.

From the reading 5.3 title " Types of exposition: 'persuade that' and 'persuading to', it explain how the text can be justify info something that is used to provide reason to support thesis. In the glossary, the presenters explain how the word such as exposition, thesis, analytical exposition, hortatory exposition, objective subjective and metaphor are used is in this chapter. The word ‘persuading that’ and ‘persuading to’ have different meaning. Although sounds almost the same, the two words give different meaning in each time it’s been used. ‘Persuading that’ refers to giving reflection on readers in an article. It is not direct persuading. While, ‘persuading to’ is to push reader about the thesis, argument and objective. Not much that can be explained in the article as they have elaborated the content in the glossary. Overall, this article focus is to persuade reader in two different ways that is to persuade that and to persuade to.

For the reading 5.4 ‘Metaphor’ explain about how the usage of metaphor in our daily life. For this topic, we really have some difficulties in explaining it to our entire colleague. Although metaphor is being used and well known in poem such as Shakespeare, it is really hard to explain the real meaning of this entire topic as each person have different perspective towards this. As explain by my colleague, the used of metaphor nowadays are extinct. Not all of society practice using metaphor as it evolves using high lexis and imagination. But, the used of metaphor comes naturally in a daily conversation. While, in my part of presentation, I have to explain about metaphor in discourse and container metaphor. As I explain in the presentation, Metaphor in discourse is to illustrate an object in a rather different way (Interpretation of language). Meaning here that rather than explaining a complex conversation, metaphor is used to convey the meaning. On the other hand, container metaphor is an ontological metaphor in which some represent as having inside and outside, and capable of holding something else. Ontological metaphor is which an abstractive such as an activity, emotion or idea is represented as something concrete such as an object or a person.