ANALYSIS OF THE FINITE VERB PHRASES IN THE SHORT STORIES THE GIFT OF THE MAGI AND COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFÉ BY O. HENRY

This research focused on finding the types of finite verb and main verbs. The researcher used the short stories The Gift of The Magi and Cosmopolite in a Café by O.Henry to limit the finding data. The method of this research is qualitative research. The result of this research showed that there are 361 finite verb phrases and divided into two types of finite verbs, 1. Main verbs stand alone which occur mostly with 65.93%, 2. Auxiliaries stand with the main verb with 34.07% which may be modal (29.27%), passive (18.70%), perfective (24.39%), progressive (6.50%), combination of two auxiliaries (12.20%), and the negative do- periphrasis auxiliary (8.94%). Based on 361 datas of finite verb phrases, the researcher found the most dominant type of main verb is action verb with 62.05% and stative verb with 37.95%

A Study of the Use of Irony Highlighted by Fictional Elements in the Short Story “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry

This paper attempts at to analyze the use of ironic expressions used in O Henry's short story “The Gift of the Magi”. The data sources of this research are O Henry's “The Gift of the Magi”. The data of this research were some phrases and sentences written in the short story. The data were then analyzed using a descriptive qualitative method. It gives a sufficient description of the factual data of the phenomena based on relevant theories. In addition, it reveals how the use of irony is highlighted by fictional elements. The research findings show that there are thirteen ironic expressions categorized into three groups, situational irony, verbal irony and dramatic irony. Among three categories, situational irony ranks first

USING SURVEY-QUESTION-READ-RECITE-REVIEW (SQ3R) METHOD FOR READING SHORT STORY IN TEACHING LITERATURE

In the teaching of literature, short stories are often used as instructional materials due to teaching time limit in class. Short story analysis involves the understanding of the story. The objectives of this research are to analyze and describe the use of SQ3R method in teaching literature, especially in short story by O’ Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi”. This research used the classroom action research, conducted within two cycles. The participants of the research are 34 students of Islamic College Jakarta in the academic year of 2020/2021. Techniques of collecting data were test and non-test. The results of this research showed that the application of Survey-Question-Read-Recite-Review (SQ3R) method for reading a short story in literature class can improve the student’s reading comprehension

Thematic Progression Theory and Discourse Translation: A Case Study of The Gift of the Magi

In recent years, the Systemic Functional Grammar has long been viewed as providing a powerful framework for discourse analysis, in which thematic structure, information structure and cohesion are three key tools to realize the textual meta-function. Meanwhile, the emergence of thematic theory and thematic progression theory (TP theory) has attracted great attention in linguistics. TP theory has been thought of as a potentially analytic mean for decomposing discourses in translation. This paper spares no efforts to present the practical values of thematic progression in discourse translation by analyzing a short story, The Gift of the Magi, by O·Henry and its Chinese version translated by Wang Yongnian, a famous and prestigious translator, based on the thematic theory and TP theory respectively proposed by Halliday and Danes, and thus giving some hints to E-C short stories’ translation.

Integrating literature and icts as didactic resources in the XXth century for an efl classroom: a didactic proposal

No hayDepartamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y LiteraturaMáster en Profesor de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria y Bachillerato, Formación Profesional y Enseñanzas de Idioma

DEIXIS ANALYSIS IN "THE GIFT OF THE MAGI" FOR TEACHING WRITING NARRATIVE

The aims of this research are to identify the types of deixis, to analyze the reference meaning, and to find out the application in teaching writing narrative. This research was conducted by using a descriptive qualitative method. In addition, analyze three types of deixis in short story using Yule's theory. The data which used short story “The Gift of the Magiâ€, meanwhile the data were obtained from documentation. The result of this results: 1) There were 216 deixis, those are 185 (86%) person deixis, 10 (4%) spatial deixis, and 21 (10%) temporal deixis. 2) Most of reference meaning refers to Della and Mr. James because main character in this short story is Della and Mr. James, 3) Deixis can be applied in teaching writing narrative in KD 3.5 & 4. 5 about identifying the linguistic and social aspects of narrative texts & capturing meaning contextual related to a social function, structure text, and linguistic elements of the narrative. Keywords:  Deixis, Reference, Short Story, Writing, Narrativ

Selected Elements of Animated Nature Associated with the Birth of Jesus in the Bulgarian Oral Culture and Apocryphal Narratives

Translated by Katarzyna GucioThe article attempts to extract textual and extratextual planes on which representatives of fauna made their mark in the folklore of the South Slavs, mainly Bulgarians; in their oral literature, rituals, and beliefs, juxtaposed with selected Apocrypha, primarily from the Protoevangelium of James, confronted with the Scripture. The analysed texts (legends, folk tales, ritual songs performed during Christmas) relate to the birth of Christ in Bethlehem and placing him in a manger – the events of Night of Bethlehem and the flight of the Holy Family to Egypt. The excerpted texts of fairy tales and legends marginalise the theme of the Divine Birth, focusing on the figure of the Mother of God and her actions: meeting with St. Tryphon, rejecting the child, receiving lessons on motherhood from the frog, escaping with the Child to Egypt. The birth of Jesus is used as an excuse to tell a story of an etiological character (theme cursing animal or plant), often based on ritual custom and referring to it, such as clipping vines. Just as in the case of fairy tales and legends, folk song uses the birth of Jesus to explain the genesis of some of the characteristics and phenomena of nature. Presentation of animals in ritual songs occasionally refers to the economic sphere (the shepherds slept, and their flock wandered away), while wild animals are the object of punishment or reward. The Apocrypha known among the South Slavs mention animals in situations encountered also in the Bulgarian oral literature – the cosmic silence when fauna and flora freezes in anticipation of the birth of the Young God. The quoted texts of the Bulgarian oral culture referring to the theme of the Nativity of the Lord, the Gospel inspiration or even interaction with the apocryphal text fades into the background. The content of the stories and folk songs seems to be primordial in relation to the processed content of the Gospel; biblical characters and situations are introduced to oral stories already in circulation, creating texts that are testament of the so-called folk Christianity