Justin Riwoe
XII IPA 1
Language Feature What do you know
about it
Focus on Specific It is a language feature of a
participants text or an artwork that focus
on the main character.
Complex Clauses Complex clauses are used to
give more explanation of a
sentence/make a sentence
become more clearly.
Metaphor A metaphor is a figure of
speech that, for rhetorical
effect, directly refers to one
thing by mentioning another.
Adjective An adjective is a word that
modifies a noun or noun
phrase or describes its
referent.
Example
Born the son of a miner on
the tiny Indonesian island of
Belitong, on the East coast of
Sumatra, six-year-old Ikal
knows the huge sacrifice his
parents are making to send
one of their children to
school in the hope of giving
him a better future.
All of them children of the
poorest families on the
island – fishermen, miners
labourers and farmers, who
can’t even afford school
uniforms or books for their
children.
The Rainbow Troops has
now become Indonesia’s
best- selling novel in history,
which has been translated
into 19 languages and
adapted for film, television
and musical.
The story’s honesty and
humour will warm your
heart and leave you with a
feeling of hope.
Andrea Hirata’s Rainbow
Troops is both humbling and
inspiring, a reminder that
there is a lot we
take for granted in this
country which is a privilege
in other, less fortunate
places – such as the right
to free education.
On his first day at
Muhammadiyah Elementary
 School, a
poor, ramshackle building on
the verge of collapse

The students themselves,

calling themselves the
Rainbow Troops, are a
colourful group