Entry1_Nguyễn Thị Kim Ưng

Entry1_ Capturing the message

Item1: Poem

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise. 

Rhetorical devices:

·        Rhyme: got- gold; welling- swelling; bitter- twisted…

·        Repetition: I rise…, you may….

·        Parallelism: the dream and the hope
·        Rhetorical question: - Does my sassiness upset you?

                                            - Why are you beset with gloom?

                                            - At the meeting of my thighs?

Message:

Each of us should be optimistic and self-confident in our real life and enjoy ourselves what we have.

Item2: A Short story

Honesty is the Best Policy.

A milkman became very wealthy through dishonest means. He had to cross a river daily to reach the city where his customers lived. He mixed the water of the river generously with the milk that he sold for a good profit. One day he went around collecting the dues in order to celebrate the wedding of his son. With the large amount thus collected he purchased plenty of rich clothes and glittering gold ornaments. But while crossing the river the boat capsized and all his costly purchases were swallowed by the river. The milk vendor was speechless with grief. At that time he heard a voice that came from the river, “Do not weep. What you have lost is only the illicit gains you earned through cheating your customers.
Rhetorical devices:

·        Climax: crossed a river daily->mixed the water of the river with the milk->went around collecting the dues-> all milkman’s costly purchases were swallowed by the river.

·        Irony

Message:

Honest dealings are always supreme. Money earned by wrong methods will never remain forever.

Item3: Cartoon

Rhetorical devices:

·        Irony: The whale caused the environmental polution, while two peope are trying to save it.

·        Overstatement

·        Metaphor: the giant whale- pollutants

Message:

These environmentalists look to be in real danger, caused by the whale they are trying to save.

Source: 

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/still-i-rise/

http://www.english-for-students.com/Honesty-is-The-Best-Policy.html

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