STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF ORAL LITERATURE IN SIMEULUE

Abstract

This research was basically aimed to document the oral literature of the people in simeulue and to collect Simeulue’s oral literature in the form of prose to be documented in the form of text and translated into English. The general problems of this research were the structure and function of oral literature in simeulue region. Simeulue oral literature is one of the oral literature that was born and developing in the special of Aceh region. This can be reinforced by the fact that literature is told orally. Thus, this oral literature shows a lot of things that have to do with the lives of people in Simeulue itself. There are three titles analyzed, they are: Anak durhako, Luma fatu, and si mesken. The purpose of the study is to describe the issues discussed, while the benefits  of this research that can contribute to the development of oral literature research, especially story telling or folklore, can be studied and used as a teaching material in school, can be used as a reference for further researchers, as well as one of the efforts of cultural preservation and entertainment especially towards the Simeulue community. The theory used in this research is the theory of oral literature, structural theory, oral literary function, translation theory and literary learning. This research uses descriptive and qualitative method.