ANALYSIS OF PASSAGE

PASSAGE 1

When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is , according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Throughout the centuries people have explained the rainbow in various ways. Some have accepted it as a miracle without physical explanation. To the Hebrews it was a token that there would be no more universal floods. The Greeks used to imagine that it was a sign from the gods to foretell war or heavy rain. The Norsemen considered the rainbow as a bridge over which the gods passed from earth to their home in the sky. Others have tried to explain the phenomenon physically. Aristotle thought that the rainbow was caused by reflection of the sun’s rays by the rain. Since then physicists have found that it is not reflection, but refraction by the raindrops which causes the rainbows. Many complicated ideas about the rainbow have been formed. The difference in the rainbow depends considerably upon the size of the drops, and the width of the colored band increases as the size of the drops increases. The actual primary rainbow observed is said to be the effect of super-imposition of a number of bows. If the red of the second bow falls upon the green of the first, the result is to give a bow with an abnormally wide yellow band, since red and green light when mixed form yellow. This is a very common type of bow, one showing mainly red and yellow, with little or no green or blue.

The Rainbow Passage, a public domain text, can be found on page 127 of the 2nd edition of Grant Fairbanks’ Voice and Articulation Drillbook. New York: Harper & Row.

1.      What is passage’s pattern?

Pattern of  this passage is explanation

2.      Is the statement mostly fact or opinion?

The statement above is mostly Fact

3.      What is author bias?

Author want to explain that raibow happened because sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act as a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colors.

4.      What is author purpose?

Purpose this passage is to explain how rainbow happen based on some expert.

5.      What is authors tone?

Author tone in this passage is professional.

PASSAGE 2

Nobody ever wrote a dull autobiography. If one may  make such a bull, the very dullness would be   interesting. The autobiographer has two qualifications  of supreme importance in all literary work. He is writing about a topic in which he is keenly interested,  and about a topic upon which he is the highest living authority. It may he reckoned, too, as a special felicity  that an autobiography, alone of all books, may be more valuable in proportion to the amount of  misrepresentation which it contains. We do not  wonder when a man gives a false character to his neighbour, but it is always curious to see how a man contrives to present a false testimonial to himself. It is pleasant to he admitted behind the scenes and trace the growth of that singular phantom which is the man's own shadow cast upon the coloured and distorting mists of memory.

 (Taken IELTS Academic Reading)

1.      What is passage’s pattern?

Pattern this passage is argumentative

2.      Is the statement mostly fact or opinion?

The statement above is mostly Opinion

3.      What is author bias?

Author thinks someone who write autobiography will subjective, and when his or her friend retell about someone in bigraphy will give only good statement.

4.      What is author purpose?

To inform that when someone write autobiography can not subjective, just tell from good side, and his friend also will give good information.

5.      What is authors tone?

Author tone in this passage is serious.