Ne day, when the girl had become a woman, a man appeared. no one knows where this man came from. perhaps he was sent from the gods above. the girl was so filled with wonder to see this strange man, she lost her senses and fainted. the man yielded two very different arrows, and laid them across the body of the girl in opposite directions, then he disappeared.

The story above is one of a fictitious story or folklore or myth. Like in a fairy tale, there was a girl who saw a handsome man, and then the girl passed out in awe of his good looks. And the man saves the girl with his two arrows placed opposite. As a result, the girl regained consciousness and realized that the man who was helping her had left.

Folklore is a story that comes from the community and developed in society in the past. It has become diverse which includes cultural and historical wealth possessed by each nation.

Folklore is a part of a fairy tale. Folklore is usually delivered verbally and has developed down and down.

The characteristics of folklore that distinguish it from other stories are:

Texts of folklore are divided into 3 major groups according to William R Bascom in James Danandjaya 1991: 50

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Class: High school

Subject: English

keywords: folklore, myths, texts

1.creeping like a snail is a simile used in this poem and it means the child is going to school unwillingly./a child is unwilling to go to school.

2. man becomes very frail and loses his physical strength when he becomes old, so much that his leggings that used to fit him snugly when he was in his youth are now too loose for him to wear, and that his shank has shrunk so much that this worldly stage is too big for a feeble actor like him. although, 'his youthful hose' just refers to his leggings/pants/ to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.

3.the words "sans" means "without." it is a french word that is often used in english even today. so he is saying that in the last age of a man, the man is without eyes, taste, or anything else. he also says that this is the "last stage of all" and that it is the stage that ends a man's "history."

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try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it