Samples of Cataphoric and Anaphoric (Fauziah's)

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Have you ever felt so fresh during dawn, feeling overwhelmed with happiness, listening to the chirping of the birds together with the beautiful voice and words of takbir for one sole reason to worship The Creator, Allah SWT. It is non-other than EID!!

            Usually my mother will wake up as early as 4am to prepare all the foods that is needed to be served after the sunnah rakaat of eid prayer. She will make traditional indian food, which is ‘Idhiyappam’, together with ‘kurma curry’, mutton curry, depending on each and every family members likes that goes together with fried chicken. All of the other family members will wake up around 5am and queue up to brush their teeth and to take sunnah shower. This queuing session can only be witnessed during Eid. XD

            As for my race, we usually won’t be celebrating Eid at our hometown, because if we have to celebrate like how the Malay’s does, then, my family and I would be booking ticket to India every single year. We do celebrate Eid in India at times, but not that often, plus, the taste of enjoyment wouldn’t be the same. As for me, I prefer celebrating Eid in Malaysia as we get to perform Eid prayer, while in India, the women usually won’t be participating in the Eid prayer. But one plus point is that, I get to meet both sides of my grandparents and all my relatives that are still staying in that country. You’ll be loved and will be greeted warmly by every single person in that particular place that you are staying. Not only that, I love to walk around the village and just get into any house that I feel like entering. I’ll be treated so good, and not to forget the ‘duit raya’.

            Okay, enough travelling around world, let’s get back to Malaysia(haha). So, after performing the two obligatory rakaat’s of Subuh prayer, all of us will be having a hot cup of coffee, tea or milo. Right after that, my family and I will prepare ourselves to the masjid nearby to worship Allah in the form of two sunnah rakaat’s of Eid prayer. After completing it, there you go, the emotional and sentimental moment will come along. All the servants of Allah in the masjid or madrasah will be hugging and kissing their mahram, asking for forgiveness and make their bond closer to each other. Not to forget, this is the place where we can see variety of colours and dresses being worn by the Muslims with their happy faces after a whole month of fasting, controlling nafs, practicing all the day during the holy month of Ramadhan to strive to become a better person on that day of Eid.

            So the celebration continues, by having our breakfast which is the indian traditional food mentioned earlier, then a great feast during lunch, where we usually will be having biryani as our main dish that comes together with mutton or chicken curry, fried chicken, cabbage that is dunked and dipped with mayonnaise where I can never describe how good the taste is. Besides, as usual, there will be variety of biscuits and chocolate chips been done and baked during the fasting month such as, chocolate almond, chocolate corn flakes, murukku and many more. These mouth washers will be given to the neighborhoods and will be brought to relatives house when we pay a visit.

            Thus, the entire day of Eid’l Fitr will be more of visiting relatives, chit-chatting among our aged groups, playing fire crackers, enjoying feast and crunchy cookies, laughter and a sense of relief after fasting and going through all the trials during the whole month of Ramadhan. So, this is how my family and I celebrate Eid (Sorry, we don’t make ketupat and rendang as we actually do not know how to do them and I have tasted rendang only twice in my life, and for ketupat, trst me, I had never tried it before :p )

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Samples of Cataphoric and Anaphoric (Haziqah's)

Only two weeks left before Muslim in the whole world celebrate it. Hari Raya Aidilfitri is regarded as a merry celebration as it marks a person’s triumph and success on discipline and self-resistance during a full one month fasting in the holy month which called Ramadhan. There is a lot of advantages Muslim can gain in this month, that is why we are encourage to do as many good deeds as we can. After a month, Muslim celebrates Hari Raya cheerfully and with joy. The fasting does not deter us from making preparations to welcome Hari Raya Aidilfitri. However, it builds up excitement. During Ramadhan, we have already start to shop for new clothes, delicacies and goodies and furnish our home with new furniture and decorations.

As for my family and I, we will be celebrating Hari Raya at my father’s hometown which is situated in Kedah. Six hours travelling in the car sure is tiring especially when we travel while fasting. Usually, he will be exhausted at the half-way drive, so father will drive to RnR for us to perform prayer and relaxing for a moment before continuing the journey. Upon arriving at our grandparents’ house, we will be greeted by them and close relative. Our families will start gathered around and chit-chatting as we have not seen each other for quite some time. Especially the adults, they would really spent a long time talking while bringing back memories. During the night time, all of us will be performing tarawikh at the nearby mosque while greeted some relative and our grandparents’ neighbours along the way.

The most exciting moment before Hari Raya is when we gather around in front of the television while waiting for Hari Raya announcement. They would shouting happily informing the positive news and subsequently, the kids would also start to play with firecrackers at the house compound.

In the morning of first Syawal, we will go to the mosque to pray. After praying, the children would line up to ask forgiveness from the older. This is a precious moment in the morning of Syawal where they will sheds sincere tears as a sign of true regret, adults surely used this opportunity before not be able to see each other again. After that, we will receive guests and relatives who come to pay us a visit, they will also give ‘duit raya’ to the children in our house. This is the moment the ladies of the house will present the foods that had been prepare the days before. Usually, womenfolk make many varieties of cakes, cookies and sweetmeats to be devour in the Syawal month for the families and guests, they also cook 'rendang' curries and prepare 'satay' to go with the 'ketupat'. They would likely be helping decorating the house compound with many coloured lights, the men will also lit small lamps and placed along the driveway.  While the children would go around the neighbourhood, collecting duit raya. They will wear new clothes and shoes. The girls will wear jewellery while the boys wear new 'songkoks'.

The town is usually crowded with Muslims dressed gaily and going about. We will visit our friends and relatives. For most of us, Hari Raya is a time for family reunions. It make Muslim rejoices during this festive season.

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Cataphoric vs Anaphoric

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Have you ever wondered what is cataphoric and anaphoric? As a English Litereature and Linguistic student, we would like to convey the uses of cataphoric and anaphoric in the essays that you have been writing all these years.

So, what is cataphoric?

A cataphoric reference unit refers to another unit that is introduced latter on in the text/speech. To understand the unit referred to by a cataphoric reference you would need to look ahead in the text/speech. In a much simpler word, cataphoric references take place when the object mentioned after the pronoun. Pronoun is the uses of he, she, it, they, this, that, here, and there.

How about anaphoric?

An anaphoric reference unit, on the other hand, refers to another unit that was introduced earlier on in the text/speech. To understand the unit referred to by an anaphoric reference you would need to look back in the text/speech. So to conclude, anaphoric references take place when the object mentioned after the pronoun.