Entry 1
Item 1: Love Letter
Ludwig Van Beethoven to his
“Immortal Beloved”
Letter 1:
Good morning, on July 7
My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved
I can live only wholly with you or not at all -
Be calm my life, my all, only by calm consideration
of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together.
Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most
faithful heart of your beloved.
Ever thine
Ever mine
Ever ours.
(From:the
book “Love letters of Great men” – Volume I, appearing at about minute 22nd in the movie “Sex and the City I” which was
produced in 2008).
Rhetorical
device:
1.Overstatement: the writer wrote: “I can live only
wholly with you or not at all”.
2. Repitition: the writer repeated the word “Ever”
for 3 times.
3. Parallelism: the writer wrote: my life // my all
he also wrote: Ever thine
Ever mine
Ever ours.
è Conclusion:
the writer used these rhetorical devices in his letter to emphasize and prove
his faithful and eternal love for his “Immortal Beloved”.
Item 2: Story
The most
beautiful heart
One day a young man was
standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful
heart in the whole valley.
A large crowd gathered
and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw
in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever
seen.
The young man was very
proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.
Suddenly, an old man
appeared at the front of the crowd and said, “Why your heart is not nearly as
beautiful as mine.”
The crowd and the young
man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating strongly ... but full of
scars. It had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in ...
but they didn’t fit quite right and there were several jagged edges.
In fact, in some places
there were deep gouges where whole pieces were missing. The people starred ...
how could he say his heart is more beautiful, they thought?
The young man looked at
the old man’s heart and saw its state and laughed.
“You must be joking,”
he said. “Compare your heart with mine ... mine is perfect and yours is a mess
of scars and tears.”
“Yes,” said the old
man, “Yours is perfect looking ... but I would never trade with you. You see,
every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love..... I tear out a
piece of my heart and give it to them ... and
often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my
heart ... but because the pieces aren’t exact, I have some rough edges, which I
cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared.
Sometimes I have given
pieces of my heart away ... and the other person hasn’t returned a piece of his
heart to me. These are the empty gouges ... giving love is taking a chance.
Although these gouges are painful,
they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too ... and I
hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you
see what true beauty is?”
The young man stood
silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man,
reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He
offered it to the old man with trembling hands.
The old man took his
offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred
heart and placed it in the wound in the young man’s heart. It fit.... but not
perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.
The young man looked at
his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from
the old man’s heart flowed into his. They embraced and walked away side by
side.
The
rhetorical devices:
1. Metonymy:
The writer uses the old man’s “heart with full of scars” to represent for his
noble personalities, and the young man’s “flawless heart” to represent for his lack of experience in
life.
The
moral lesson:
The physical perfection
is not always the most beautiful.The true beauty doesn’t lies in a person’s
appearance,it exists in our daily behaviors.
Item 3: Cartoon
The
rhetorical device:
1. Antithesis:
“Comgratulation” opposes to “Sorry”
“Graduate and get a job” opposes to “not hiring at this time”
The
message: the limitation of vacancies leads to the graduate
student’s unemployment.
Comment for item 3:
Trả lờiXóaIn my point of view, the words of the degree-giver does not explicitly denote the limitation of vacancies. "we aren't hiring at this time" could have different meanings, for instance, "employers are experiencing an economic crisis and have no ability for paying". Therefore, the insistent assessing that situation as " the limitation of vacancies" is partially hurried somehow. The cartoon just warns the visible status of unemployment of new graduates.
if you don't really understand my idea, just thinh that: "employers are experiencing an economic crisis and have no ability for paying" (as you said) means that that can't affort to hire employees any more, right? this situation also leads to the limitation of vacancies (no hiring means no more vacancies for graduates to apply for). hope that you will get my idea, if not, you will really disappoint me. Anyway, thanks for your comment.
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