Too often we don't realize
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- Rhetorical devices:
* Rhyme: gone – wrong, heart –
apart, minds – blind, you – through, got – lot
* Repetition/ Parallelism: Too
often we don’t realize... – Too often we wait... Be sure that you let... – Be sure
that you appreciate...
- Message:
We should to appreciate little things in our
life in order not to regret after it is gone.
Item 2: Story
The Faithful
Dog and His Master (2)
Once, there was a man living in a village. He had a baby. The
baby's mother had died soon after its birth. He loved it very much. He also had
a faithful dog. The dog was eager to serve his master.One day, the baby had high fever. The father went to the town to bring medicine for it. He left the baby in the cradle. The dog was there to look after.
In the old man's absence, a wolf entered the house and attacked the baby. The dog fought with the wolf and killed it. After sometime, the old man returned with the medicine. He saw that the paws and the mouth of the dog were covered with blood. He thought that the dog had killed his baby. While the dog was licking his master feet, he shot the pet dead.
When the man went into the bedroom, he found the baby sleeping soundly in the cradle. He also saw a wolf lying dead nearby. He at once realized his folly but it was too late. He felt guilty and repented for his blunder.
- Rhetorical devices:
Climax: He noticed the blood-covered mouth of the dog, so the man
thought that the dog had killed his baby. In a fury, he shot the pet dead. But when he
entered the house, his baby was sleeping
soundly. Nearby a big wolf lay dead.
- Message:
You should look before you leap because sometimes haste makes waste.
Item
3: Picture (3)
- Rhetorical devices:
* Metaphor:
The tree – the environment/ forest
The finger – human
being’s life
*
Irony:
The man is cutting down the tree – the finger of a human being.
*
Overstatement:
People are destroying the nature.
- Massage:
Those who has destroyed
the environment are directly harming their own life.
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(1) http://www.ellenbailey.com/poems/ellen_121.htm
(2) http://writing.wikinut.com/The-Faithful-Dog-And-His-Master/1p4g.nha/
(3) http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2012_05_01_archive.html
Your entry is very interesting my buddy
Trả lờiXóaI would prefer to talk about the last item- item 3
Personally I think the message is that human beings are destroying natural environment as well as their own life. “Those” in your message only refers to some people, rather than it should be metaphor for the whole human beings.
After reading carefully your entry, I would like to share you my comment:
Trả lờiXóa-Item 1: Poem
+There is a small mistake in grammar in message: should to appreciate ->should appreciate.
+I would like to add something about Rhetorical device:
Assonance: foolish-things, unimportant-things-into, until-it-is
-Item 3:
+Rhetorical device:
I do not understand when you say “Overstatement: People are destroying the nature.”
I think that: Overstatement: In fact, the man cannot be on any real finger and the tree also cannot be grown on the finger
-Message: You should express your idea more clearly: Human beings who has destroyed their environment are also harming themselves.