Item 1: Poem
Time Will Pass
© Janelle
Life is something you can not fake
you live and learn from each mistake
Sunny days or cloudy skies
Happy Greetings or Sad Goodbyes
So don't sit by and let time pass
For live each day like your last
you live and learn from each mistake
Sunny days or cloudy skies
Happy Greetings or Sad Goodbyes
So don't sit by and let time pass
For live each day like your last
This is something that you must do
if you expect to grow and stick it through
All the sadness all the pain wash
it away like the rain.
Fast or slow whatever your pace
take your time life is not a race.
Rhetorical devices:
- Rhyme: fake-mistakes, skies-Goodbyes, pass-last, do-through, pain-rain, pace-race.
- Antithesis: Sunny days-Cloudy skies, Happy Greetings-Sad Goodbyes.
- Bathos: All the sadness all the pain washit away like the rain.
- Metaphor: Sunny day, Happy greeting: good day ( or success)
Cloudy skies, sad goodbyes: bad day ( or failure )
Message : Do not waste any moment of your life, whether it's filled with sadness or joy. You yourself should live and enjoy it to the fullest
Item 2: Fable
The Fox and the Grapes
One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."Source: http://www.aesops-fables.org.uk/aesop-fable-the-fox-and-the-grapes.htm
Rhetorical devices:
- Metaphor:
+ The fox: a person
+ a bunch of grapes:a good opportunity but hard to get.
- Irony:
+ the fox cannot jump high enough to get the grapes, but he doesn't think about another way to get them => Fool.
+the fox cannot get the grapes, but pretend that the grapes are not good enough for him => arrogant
Moral lesson:
- Do not make excuse for your failure
.- There are many way that lead you to success. If you get the wrong way, turn back and go the other.
- Try hard if you want to gain something.
Item 3: Picture
Rhetorical devices:
- Symbol: + the tree: the price
+ the food: essential goods for consumer.
+ The man: the consumers.
- Irony
Message: The inflation rate has become so high that the people cannot adapt to the price.
In my oppinion: In the 3 item: the message is: the increasing inflation like a tree, has caused people more difficulties in making end meet
ReplyDeleteI think Vy's message is right. you can see a high tree crashes through the cloud.I mean the inflation rate has become so high
DeleteYour poem is really good. It use many rhetocial devices and its message impressed on me.
ReplyDeleteabout the 2nd item: " I am sure they are sour."- it's now used as an idiom with the meaning: someone is trying to deny his/him failure or pretend to decry what a person does not achieve
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