REVIEW

 

General Function:

      To critique an artwork, event for a public audience. It includes movies, TV shows, books, plays, operas, recordings, exhibitions, concerts, and ballets.

General Structure:

Orientation – Interpretive – Evaluation

-               Orientation   : Places the work in its general context often by comparing  it with others of its kind

-               Interpretive   : Summarizes the plot or / and provides an account of how to reviewed rendition of the work came into being.

-               Evaluation    : Provides an evaluation of the work and / or its performance or production.

Significant Grammatical Features:

a.            Use of adjectives, complex clauses, and metaphorical language

Example:

Brownies,

A bite of sweet cake, a bite of love story

Another Indonesian romantic drama feature film by a young and talented director, Hanung Bramantyo, will soon be released this year. Fans of Marcella Zalianty, Bucek Depp, and Arie U. Kuncoro will be able to see their idols acting in a movie title brownies. The film is produced by SinemArt, which also produced ‘Mengejar Matahari’.

The theme is simple; it’s about love. Love with bittersweet story becomes the highlight that enrichest the movie plot. The reason is quite obvious: A love theme always attracts more people to come to the cinema.

Mel (Marcella Zalianty), a copywriter in a advertising agency, has a life that’s focused on her job. Although Mel is engaged to Joe (Philips Yusuf), DIDI (Renia) – her close friend -, questions if Joe is really Mel’s kind of guy.

Later in the story, Mel finds out that Joe has been going out with another girl this time. Then, Mel, meets Are (Bucek Depp), a young artist who writes, own

Question:

1.    What is the text tell us about?

A.   Recount

B.   Descriptive

C.   Narrative

D.   Review

E.   Spoof

2.    What is the purpose of the text above?

A.   To summaries, analyze, and respond to art works

B.   To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining

C.   To persuade the readers to watch that film

D.   To explain the process to make a film

E.   To describe about artist

3.    The first paragraph is called?

A.   Orientation

B.   Thesis

C.   Coda

D.   Twist

E.   Recommendation

4.    The name of the stage manager is?

A.   Arie U. Kuncoro

B.   Marcella Zalianty

C.   Hanung Bramantyo

D.   Bucek Depp

E.   SinemArt

5.    The generic structure of the text is?

A.   Thesis – arguments – reiteration

B.   Orientation – interpretive – evaluation

C.   Orientation – events – twist

D.   Orientation – events – reorientation

E.   General classification – description