Item 1:
Poem
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“Hope”
is the thing with feathers
“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -
And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.
ü Rhetorical devices:
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Rhyme: turn
- words, heard - bird, storm - warm
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Metaphor: hope-
bird
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Parallelism: in
the chillest land- on the strangest sea
ü Message:
Hope exists in the harsh conditions but hope never asks us
of anything.
Item
2: Story
Nail in the fence
There once was a little boy who had a bad
temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he
lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into
the fence. Over the next few weeks as he learned to control his anger, the
number of nails hammered daily, gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was
easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally
the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father
about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each
day that he was able to hold his temper.
The days passed and the young boy was finally
able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son
by the hand and led him to the fence. He said “you have done well, my son,
but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When
you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a
knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm
sorry, the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical
one."
ü Rhetorical devices:
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Metaphor:
Nail - mistake ; hole - wound
ü Message: The
mistakes inflict wound in spite of being corrected.
Item
3: Cartoon
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ü
Rhetorical
devices:
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Overstatement: people have to carry their car with both
hands
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Metaphor: car - means
of transport using fuel in general
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Message: People
can't afford to drive their car because of
increasing in fuel prices.
Sources:
I totally agree with you about the message you showed in item 3.Futhermore,I want to add an another rhetorical device in item 2_ climax: little boy drove 37 nails into the fence->learned to control his anger->hold his temper.
Trả lờiXóaitem 3: i think irony is also used because no-one would carry a car like this in real life
Trả lờiXóaThanks for your contribution! However,I think there is no constrast between what seems to be true from what is actually true according to the definition of "irony". The image of people carrying the car exaggerates conditions that people can't afford to drive their own car. To my mind, the rhetorical here is overstatement,not irony.
XóaItem 3: To my mind, metaphor should be the sign "fuel prices" because this is the reason why people in the picture act like that
Trả lờiXóaI see your point, but in your opinion, what does "fuel prices" mean metaphorically?
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