Entry 1_ Nguyễn Thị Thúy
Item 1: Poem
There is another sky
By Emily Dickinson
There is
another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden,
Where not a frost has been;
In its unfading flowers
I hear the bright bee hum:
Prithee, my brother,
Into my garden come!
Rhetorical devices:
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Rhyme:
- imperfect rhyme: sky- sunshine, flowers- brother.
- perfect rhyme: fair- there, green- been, hum- come.
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Repetition:
- Never mind
- Here is a
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Symbol:
- sunshine- belief and hope
- darkness- the sorrows and difficulties in life
·
Metaphor:
- “another sky, unfading flowers, the bright bee hum” – nice and
positive things in life.
- “faded forest, silent
fields, frost” – the failures, sorrows and difficulties.
Message: Each of them should live in hopeful and positive way as sorrows, failures
and difficulties will go away if we live on the bright sides.
Item 2: Story
The Cookie Thief
A woman was
waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She
hunted for a book in the airport shops, bought a bag of cookies and found a
place to drop.
She was engrossed
in her book but happened to see, that the man sitting beside her, as bold as
could be. . .grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between, which she tried
to ignore to avoid a scene.
So she munched
the cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy cookie thief diminished her
stock. She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I
wasn’t so nice, I would blacken his eye.”
With each cookie
she took, he took one too, when only one was left, she wondered what he would
do. With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and
broke it in half.
He offered her
half, as he ate the other, she snatched it from him and thought… oooh, brother.
This guy has some nerve and he’s also rude, why he didn’t even show any
gratitude!
She had never
known when she had been so galled, and sighed with relief when her flight was
called. She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate, refusing to look
back at the thieving ingrate.
She boarded the
plane, and sank in her seat, then she sought her book, which was almost
complete. As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise, there was
her bag of cookies, in front of her eyes.
If mine are here,
she moaned in despair, the others were his, and he tried to share. Too late to
apologize, she realized with grief, that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the
thief.
Rhetorical devices:
·
Metaphor: the cookies- things we have
possessed.
Message
Living is
sharing. Let’s share things we get to each other to receive happiness. Also, do
to others as you would have them do to you.
Item 3: Cartoon
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Rhetorical devices
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Irony: the behaviors of the spouses when following
other comments ridiculously.
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Overstatement:
there are not many other comments and the solution of the spouses like that.
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Metaphor:
the spouses- each of us; people giving comment- the whispers and comments of
other people in our society
Message:
In
our society, there are many people who are not consistent, do not keep their
own idea firmly when accepting other comments.
Source:
I think climax is another rhetorical device in item 2. The wondering of the woman is increased from the first to the last cookie.
Trả lờiXóain item 3, I think it may suitable with the message : Listen to your own and do in my way. Whatever and however you do, you will always be judged by other people.
Trả lờiXóaItem 3: I partly agree with Trang but I think that the message should only be: Whatever you do, you will be judge by others
Trả lờiXóaItem 1:There is one more rhetorical device you can add to:
Trả lờiXóa- Alliteration: + faded forest
+ bright bee