Topic 5

Information in the unit that I find interesting is the exposition. The element and style of the text is to support and justify some thesis statement. There are two types of exposition, ‘analytical’ and ‘hortatory’ expositions. Hortatory exposition is related with the text such as politic, letter and memos while the analytical exposition related with the academic writing and speaking. The exposition employ the reasoning and metaphor as it want to persuade people in believing something. The concept that is hard to understand is the metaphor. Metaphor plays a role in helping us constructing what we want to talk about and also it can be help in influences the reader. It delivers communication through the language and not just flowery sentences. Metaphor is usually been used when we encounter something new and not familiar with it. The metaphor that we used represents our value and cultural perspectives. It is hard to determine the intention of the writer when he used metaphor because everyone has their own perspective. Sometime the metaphor can be misinterpret and defer from the intention of the writer. In identifying the metaphor, people need to discover and examine carefully in determine what is the writer wants to deliver. The approach that I took in ‘out of puff’ is determined the writer stance and true intention. The writer purpose and how the writer is influence the reader. The metaphor also been examined and carefully identify. The area that is still become problematic is the crooked and fallacious thinking. This area is hard to understand because in order to influence the reader we need to have manipulative tools, but sometimes it is hard to influences the people because every people have their own attitude and behavior. Sometimes people will not agree with our stance and cannot be influence.