Entry 1_ ĐINH KIM ANH

ENTRY 1

ITEM 1: Poem: How Do I Love Thee?

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints -- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! -- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Source: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15384

Rhetorical devices

-         Rhymes: height – sight; Grace – day’s; candlelight – right; praise – faith; lose – choose; breath – death

-         Metaphor: I love thee to the depth and breadth and height (She loves every single piece of him)

-         Repitition: I love thee to; I love thee with

-         Parallelism: depth and breadth and height; I love thee freely, as men strive for right - I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

-         Rhetorical question: How do I love thee?

-         Overstatement: love thee better after death

-         Paradox: I love thee with a love I seemed to lose.

-    Message: The author describes her pasionate feeling of love for someone.

ITEM 2: Cartoon: Alternative fuel

Source: http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/alternative_fuel.asp

Rhetorical devices

-         Metonomy: Mirrors – Solar energy

-         Overstatement: The variety of the mirrors

-         Message: People should use the alternative energy especially, the solar power to replace the fossil fuel.

            

         ITEM 3: Fable: Flower and litter

In the litter bin on the pavement, a withered flower sorrowfully said to an old newspaper:
-where is here? how fetid it is!I'm the queen of beauty and scent.I can't stay here for only 1 minute.
The old newspaper laughed:
-don't be too sorrowful! Accept reality! Yesterday, you were flower,but today you are litter.

Source: http://www.tienganh.com.vn/showthread.php?16523-d%E1%BB%8Bch-truy%E1%BB%87n-ng%E1%BB%A5-ng%C3%B4n-%E1%BA%A1-!!!

Rhetorical devices

-         Metaphor: flower (success), litter (failure)

-         Overstatement: I can not stay here for only 1 minute.

-    Message: People should not compare the present with the past, no matter how glorious it was. Besides,they should adapt to each situation whether they succeed or not.