Entry 1_Ngô Thị Minh Phương

Entry 1_Ngô Thị Minh Phương

Entry 1

Item 1: Poem

funny... but not [1]

it's funny how hello is always accompanied with goodbye
it's funny how good memories can start to make you cry
it's funny how forever never seems to last
it's funny how much you'd lose if you forgot about your past
it's funny how “friends” can just leave when you are down
it's funny how when you need someone they never are around
it's funny how people change and think they're so much better
it's funny how many lies are packed into one “love letter”
it's funny how one night can contain so much regret
it's funny how you can forgive but not forget
it's funny how ironic life turns out to be
but the funniest part of all, is none of thats funny to me

Arianna Loshnowsky

Rhetorical Device:

Ф Rhyme: goodbye - cry, last - past, down - around, better - letter, regret - forget, to be - to me.
Ф Parallelism: the structure "It's funny how..." (11 times)

Message:

     Life is full of paradox and unpredictable events, beside funny things. Even things that you believe in can betray you one day. Therefore, you should be fully prepared to cope with every possibly hardship in life.

Item 2: Fable

A horse and a stag [2]

Once a wild horse while grazing on a grassland was enjoying its food and its freedom. After some time it saw a stag coming and nibbling on the same grassland. There was sufficient grass for both of them but the horse didn't want to share the grass and thought of a plan to get rid of the stag.
It saw a man passing by, told him its plan and asked his help to kill the stag. The man agreed, but said that to fulfill the plan, he would have to mount the horse in order to chase the stag. The horse agreed and very soon the man killed the stag.
The horse now waited for the man to get off but the man refused.
The horse got mad with rage and began to kick and fling, but all it got was a good whipping.
At last, it had no other alternative but to submit itself to the man and work for him on his farm.

Rhetoric devices:

Ф Personalization :The horse in this story was personalized with thought and feeling like people

Ф Metaphor : The stag is symbolized as the weak in society

                    The horse is the symbolic image of the kind of contrived and greed person

                    The man represents the wicked people in life, who also take advantage of other people.

Message:

     Selfishness and greed someday will harm to self and others. Moreover, your greed make you blind; surprisingly, a day you might become the victim of the person whom you ask to hurt your enemy.

Item 3: Cartoon [3]

Rhetorical devices:

Ф Metaphor: The ugly horse – The recessional economy

                   The painter – The EU government

                   The nice horse – The desirable economy of EU

Ф Irony: the actual economy in Europe >< the economy that EU government promise to gain

Message:

      Through the hand of the Eu government, the economy is “drawn” to be good and positive but the reality is that the economy is falling down with many crisises.

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[1] http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/funny-but-not/

[2] http://www.kidsfront.com/stories-for-kids/a_horse_and_a_stag.html

[3] http://www.cartoonmovement.com/cartoon/4993

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