Entry 1_Ngô Ngân Hà

Item 1: Poem [1]

Love and Friendship

By Emily Bronte 

Love is like the wild rose-briar; 

Friendship like the holly-tree. 

The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, 

But which will bloom most constantly? 

The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring, 

Its summer blossoms scent the air; 

Yet wait till winter comes again, 

And who will call the wild-briar fair? 

Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now, 

And deck thee with the holly's sheen, 

That, when December blights thy brow, 

He still may leave thy garland green. 

Rhetorical devices

-Simile: (Use “like”)

 Love                  -the wild rose-briar; 

Friendship     - the holly-tree. 

-Rhyme: Imperfect rhyme:

            + Like-wild-briar (Love is like the wild rose-briar)

            +Which-will (But which will bloom most constantly?)

  + Is-sweet-in-spring (The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring)

            +Till-winter (Yet wait till winter comes again)

-A rhetorical question:    But which will bloom most constantly? 

                                    And who will call the wild-briar fair? 

-Repetition: the wild rose-briar, the holly.

-Parallelism: Spring, summer         -            winter, December.

            (Sweet time of love)                       (Time to end of love)

Message: People should appreciate friendship rather than love because only friendship is immortal.

Item 2: Fable [2]

The Rabbit and the Turtle

One day a rabbit was boasting about how fast he could run. He was laughing at the turtle for being so slow. Much to the rabbit’s surprise, the turtle challenged him to a race. The rabbit thought this was a good joke and accepted the challenge. The fox was to be the umpire of the race. As the race began, the rabbit raced way ahead of the turtle, just like everyone thought. The rabbit got to the halfway point and could not see the turtle anywhere. He was hot and tired and decided to stop and take a short nap. Even if the turtle passed him, he would be able to race to the finish line ahead of him. All this time the turtle kept walking step by step by step. He never quit no matter how hot or tired he got. He just kept going.

However, the rabbit slept longer than he had thought and woke up. He could not see the turtle anywhere! He went at full-speed to the finish line but found the turtle there waiting for him.

Rhetorical devices

-Symbol: Rabbit symbolizes the quickness.

            Turtle symbolizes the slowness.

-Metaphor: Rabbit (The type of person is overconfident and arrogant)

                    Turtle (The type of person is little, weak but hard in society)

-Paradox: The slow Turtle beats the fast rabbit in a running race.

Message: We should not underestimate the weakest opponent otherwise we can fail in life.

Item 3: Cartoon [3]

Rhetorical devices

-Metaphor:

+The ticking clock = the passing time.

+Bone = the death of African.

+ Black background = dark life in Africa.

-Overstatement: In fact, people cannot be in hourglass.

-Irony: African’s life is alike to sands in hourglass.

Message: 

Every day, people in Africa are dying because of starvation, poverty, wars and diseases.

Rhetorical devices

-Metaphor:

+The man with global face = the world.

+The heavy stones = disasters people are facing.

+The sweat and hands of man = the effort to protect the earth of people all over the world.

+The man is on the edge of mountain = the world is being destroyed gradually.

-Climax: Problem stones are arranged in the order of increasing seriousness  towards the man with global face.

Message: The world is struggling to protect itself from the edge of the danger when it must cope with so many problems (global warming, terrorism, nuclear threat, HIV/AIDS, unemployment and recession).

Source           
[1] http://www.thivien.net/forum_viewtopic.php?ID=1570

[2] http://www.moralstories.org/the-rabbit-and-the-turtle/

[3] http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/431

     http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/1851