CT10.E7
Friday, 14th, September 2012
Entry 1_ Lê Thị Nga
Entry 1
Item 1: Poem
Home (Aisha Patterson)
Home is the place your
heart resides
Home is the place that you decide
Home is the womb that holds the soul
Home is the place where one is whole
Home is the glow you hold in your eye
Home is the emotion that makes you cry
Home is safe and a place of peace
Home is where all strivings cease
Home is protective against the others
Home is full of sisters and brothers
Home is where you find your rest
Home is where you feel your best
Home is a memory that follows your being
Home is a dream for those agreeing
Home is the place where reserves fall
Home is the place you yearn to call
Home is where the family meets
Home is a place of restful retreats
Home is the place you know you’ll be heard
Home is the place where nothing blurs
Home is all these wonderful things
Home is the place you develop wings
Home is the place that you’ll find one day
Home is the place where your heart will stay
Home is the place that you decide
Home is the womb that holds the soul
Home is the place where one is whole
Home is the glow you hold in your eye
Home is the emotion that makes you cry
Home is safe and a place of peace
Home is where all strivings cease
Home is protective against the others
Home is full of sisters and brothers
Home is where you find your rest
Home is where you feel your best
Home is a memory that follows your being
Home is a dream for those agreeing
Home is the place where reserves fall
Home is the place you yearn to call
Home is where the family meets
Home is a place of restful retreats
Home is the place you know you’ll be heard
Home is the place where nothing blurs
Home is all these wonderful things
Home is the place you develop wings
Home is the place that you’ll find one day
Home is the place where your heart will stay
v Rhetorical
devices:
- Metaphor: Home - The place your heart resides, the womb that holds the
soul, the glow you hold in your eye, the place where your heart will stay, safe
and a place of peace, a memory that follows your being.
- Repetition : Home, the place, home is the place, home is the where.
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Rhyme: Resides- decide, soul – whole, eye- cry, peace – cease, others – brothers, rest – best, being – agreeing, fall – call, meets – retreats, things – wings, day – stay.
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Antithesis: Protective – against.
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Alliteration: restful retreats.
v
Message: Home is the most familiar and
peaceful place of each person. Home is the hearth of dear family relationship. Wherever
people go, home is actually the place of soul, nurtures personality and dreams.
Item 2: Fable
The Ass in
the Lion's Skin
An Ass once found a
Lion’s skin which the hunters had left out in the sun to dry. He put it on and
went towards his native village. All fled at his approach, both men and
animals, and he was a proud Ass that day. In his delight he lifted up his voice
and brayed, but then everyone knew him, and his owner came up and gave him a
sound cudgeling for the fright he had caused. And shortly afterwards a Fox came
up to him and said: “Ah, I knew you by your voice.”
v Rhetorical
devices:
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Metaphor: An
Ass (idiot).
- Irony: An idiot is unable to hide his ignorance.
- Irony: An idiot is unable to hide his ignorance.
v Message: Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a
fool. Idiot is unable to hide his ignorance which is expressed through his
words.
Item 3: Cartoon
v Rhetorical
devices:
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Metaphor: Vacuum
cleaner - the process of urbanization and the development of tourism.
v Message: The processes of urbanization and the development of tourism are destroying cultural heritages.
v Website
in the item 2, i don't think it is a metaphor because the word "ass" in dictionary is an informal way to talk about "stupid person" which is exactly the same as "idiot". however. Metaphor is a rhetorical device to compare 2 different things that have at least one feature in common.
Trả lờiXóaand, one more trivial comment that in item 3, you should post the cartoon as well, so that we don't have to go to the link just to see the cartoon and then go back to see your analysis. congratulation any way! ^^~
in the item 1, i want to add a rhetorical. it is repetition. the author use the structure: "home is place", "home is where" many times to emphasize the role of home
Trả lờiXóain item 1: i don't think it's an assonance(home, the place). And are sure that it's an antithesis (protective - against)? i don't think so. In addition, i agree with Thuy that there is a rhetorical. That's just my ideas. Cheer...^^
Trả lờiXóaIn item3: I don't think the rhetorical device here is metonymy. In my opinion, it's metaphor :). The camera of the tourist in the picture was depicted like a vacuum cleaner.
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