Entry 1_ Tran Thi Le

 

Item 1: Poem

Home and Love

Written by Robert William Service

 Just Home and Love! the words are small

Four little letters unto each;

And yet you will not find in all

The wide and gracious range of speech

Two more so tenderly complete:

When angels talk in Heaven above,

I’m sure they have no words more sweet

Than Home and Love.

Just Home and Love! it’s hard to guess

Which of the two were best to gain;

Home without Love is bitterness;

Love without Home is often pain.

No! Each alone will seldom do;

Somehow they travel hand and glove:

If you win one you must have two,

Both Home and Love.

And if you’ve both, well then I’m sure

You ought to sing the whole day long;

It doesn’t matter if you’re poor

With these to make divine your song.

And so I praisefully repeat,

When angels talk in Heaven above,

There are no words more simply sweet

Than Home and Love.

Rhetorical Device:
+ Rhyme: small-all, each-speech, complete-sweet, above-love, gain-pain, do-two, glove-love, sure-poor, long-song, repeat- sweet, above-love.
+ Metaphor: using “sweet” to indicate the happiness
+ Repetition: “ no word more sweet than Home and Love”
Message: Home is where love dwells and love is the base from which people can build a happy nest.

Item 2: Cartoon

 

 Rhetorical devices:

+ Metaphor : Standing snowanimal : persons who do not smoke

Melting snowanimal: persons who smoke
+Overstatement: two animals are talking to each other
Message : Smoking is not good for health even very harmful

Item 3: Story

Two seeds

Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile soil.

The first seed said, “I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and thrust my sprouts through the earth’s crust above me … I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring … I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!”

And so she grew…

The second seed said, “Hmmmm. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don’t know what I will encounter in the dark. If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts … what if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it is much better for me to wait until it is safe.”

And so she waited…

A yard hen scratching around in the early spring ground for food found the waiting seed and promptly ate it.

Rhetorical devices:

-         Metaphor: two seeds – two kinds of persons, fertile soil – good condition
      
Message: The story gives us a message that if we always have to try to overcome challenges, we will get great achievements. In contrast, if we are always afraid of hardship, we will never rise and even be removed

Source : http://ourchangingclimate.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/the-risk-of-postponing-corrective-action/
com/forum/showthread.php?t=24138

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