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   Disaat kita menimkati sebuah karya seperti novel atau film, pasti ada tokoh yang membuat kita merasa emosi dan marah saat mendengar percakapannya, Namun ada juga yang membuat kita merasa kasihan dengan jalan hidupnya. Atau ada yang membuat kita tertawa dan senang karna sifat yang ada di tokoh lain nya. Hal-hal seperti itu merujuk pada istilah 'penokohan'. Sementara, orang yang diberikan sifat tersebut bisa kita sebut 'tokoh'.    Nugriyantoro (1995) mengatakan, Tokoh  adalah pelaku yang mengemban peristiwa dalam cerita fiksi sehingga peristiwa  itu  mampu menjalin suatu cerita.     B erdasarkan tingkat penting dan perannya, tokoh terdiri dari tokoh tambahan dan tokoh utama. Tokoh utama merupakan tokoh yang paling diutamakan dalam sebuah cerita yang dimuat dalam novel atau cerita lainnya yang bersangkutan. Dalam hal tersebut ialah tokoh yang paling sering disorot dan banyak diceritakan dalam sebuah cerita, baik itu dari segi pe...

Dalam masyarakat, karya sastra memiliki beberapa fungsi. Diantaranya: 1. Fungsi rekreatif, yaitu dapat memberikan hiburan yang menyenangkan bagi penikmat atau pembacanya. 2. Fungsi didaktif, yaitu sastra mampu mengarahkan atau mendidik pembacanya karena nilai – nilai yang terkandung di dalamnya. 3. Fungsi estetis, yaitu sastra mampu memberikan keindahan penikmat/pembacanya karena sifat keindahannya. 4. Fungsi moralitas, yaitu sastra mampu memberikan pengetahuan kepada pembaca/penikmatnya sehingga tahu moral yang baik dan buruk, karena sastra yang baik selalu mengandung moral tinggi. 5. Fungsi religius, yaitu sastra pun menghadirkan karya-karya yang mengandung ajaran agama yang dapat diteladani para penikmat/pembaca sastra. Karya satra yang paling sering saya baca adalah novel dan cerpen bergenre fantasy. Dalam menikmati karya tersebut, fungsi yang paling saya rasakan adalah fungsi rekreatif karna karya tersebut memberi saya efek senang dan terhibur. Kemudian efek...

Invention of Writing and Earliest Literature [Beginnings to 100 A.D.] Writing was not invented for the purpose of preserving literature; the earliest written documents contain commercial, administrative, political, and legal information, and were created by the first "advanced" civilizations in an area that Westerners commonly call the Middle East. The oldest writing was pictographic, meaning that the sign for an object was written to resemble the object itself; later, hieroglyphic and cuneiform scripts were invented to record more complicated information. Begun in 2700 B.C. and written down about 2000 B.C., the first great heroic narrative of world literature,  Gilgamesh , nearly vanished from memory when it was not translated from cuneiform languages into the new alphabets that replaced them. Though the absence of written signs for vowels can confuse some readers, the consonantal script developed by the Hebrew...

Emma Watson is a British actor, best known for her role as the iconic Hermione Granger in Harry Potter films. Since the complrtion of eight series of the films, Emma has shown her versality as a performer.  Watson was appointed UN Women Goodwill Ambassador in July 2014. She will dedicate her efforts towards the empowerment of young women and will serve as an advocate for UN Women’s “HeForShe” campaign promoting gender equality.  At the age of 24, Watson has already been involved in the promotion of girls’ education for several years and prefiously visited Bangladesh and Zambia as part of her humanitarian efforts. In Sptember 2014, Emma delivered an impassioned introduction to the HeForShe campaign at the UN Headquarters in New York. Since then, her speech has received heavy circulation on social media and been hailed by the press as “powerful” and “game changing”.  How did she do it? Firstly, Emma made clear from the very beginning that her speech was intended ...

Plagiarism is using someone else’s work, words, production, researches and ideas without the approval or the acknowledgment of the writer or producer, and claiming the credit for themselves. To plagiarize means to steal someone else’s idea or part of work and use it as your own. Brief quotes or use of cited sources do not constitute plagiarism. The original author can bring a lawsuit for appropriation of his/her work against the plagiarist and recover the profits. There are two major kinds of harm plagiarism causes. First, it is something as simple as stealing and lying – you just steal someone else’s work and trick somebody into believing it was you who had written it, which is as immoral as any other kind of theft is. It means that somebody had actually spent time and effort in order to create something, while you did nothing but ripping it off and submitting it. Second, it is a crime you commit against yourself. If you study at an educational institution, there are certain ...