Entry1_PhungThiTuyetNhung

Item1 :

Letting Go And Holding On

© Martha Turner

Oh how I love life,
walking outside in spring and summer
and smelling the honeysuckle floating on the warm breeze.
Couples walking hand and hand,
smiles of happiness from being in love
owners walking their dogs,
kids laughing and playing,
birds chirping and singing all day long
each and everyday the world continues on.

I get tired of it's confusion
tired of the pain.
I'm tired of the emptiness from hearts I've parted from.
Tired of wishing for more but not knowing which way to turn
and sometimes too scared to look back.
To let go completely of yesterday,
and grasp a hold on the hope of tomorrow.
A hope that if tomorrow gets here, it won't be like yesterday.

Yesterday's holding on to the hope of a lost love
yesterday's disappointments of the same ol' routine
yesterday's wishing bills didn't exist
so there wouldn't be any living from check to check.
Yesterday's empty dreams of a fairy tail ending,
Wanting an end to all my struggling.
OH... holding onto the hope of tomorrow...

A tomorrow filled with pure happiness
knowing that this direction on the path is the one and only way...
Success.
A tomorrow filled with the reassurance that your headed for better days.
A tomorrow with a love that was sent to you from the heaven above that will only grow deeper and deeper as time goes by to last forever.
A tomorrow that will complete and fulfill yesterdays wants and dreams.
A tomorrow that will conquer all my hardships and troubles.

I grasp the thought of what wonderfulness tomorrow could bring.

Source:  http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/letting-go-and-holding-on#ixzz1l26uSdW4

I. Rhetorical devices:
1. antithesis :

• letting go >< holding on.                                                                                          
• happy life of yesterday >< unhappy life of tomorrow 

2. metaphor :

• smelling the honeysuckle floating on the warm breeze
• empty dream
• yesterday- the past
• tomorrow- the future

3. epithet :

• warm breeze

4. onomatopoeia :

• chirp
• oh

5. simile :

•  if tomorrow gets here, it won't be like yesterday.

6. alliteration :

• love life
• spring and summer

7. repetition :

•  tired of ( 4 times)
• yesterday ( 6 times )
• tomorrow ( 6 times )

8. parallelism :

• kids laughing and playing,
  birds chirping and singing
•  Yesterday's holding on to the hope of a lost love
  yesterday's disappointments of the same ol' routine

 9. assonance :

• life- outside, in- spring, summer- honeysuckle, long- on, heart- parted,  routine- exist, fill- pure,..

II. Message :
In spite of difficult or unhappy life in the past, people should enjoy living towards hopeful future because the life is always nice if we always see it from bright side.

Item2 :




source: https://my.bhsonline.org/groups/wiki/4ca39/

I. Rhetorical devices:
1. rhetorical question: " global warming?"
2. oxymoron: it's snowing in the desert.
3. metonymy: a cactus-plants and animals, desert- natural environments
4. personification: the cactus with two branches symmetrically raising up -> human body with two arms raising up to show the surrender position.

II. Message:
Global warming is destroying natural environments, which effects the well being of plants and animals.

Item 3 :
Two seeds

Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile soil.
The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and thrust my sprouts through the earth's crust above me ... I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring ... I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!"
And so she grew...
The second seed said, "Hmmmm. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don't know what I will encounter in the dark. If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts ... what if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it is much better for me to wait until it is safe."
And so she waited...
A yard hen scratching around in the early spring ground for food found the waiting seed and promptly ate it.

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I. Rhetorical devices :
1. personification : two seeds.
2. antithesis : what the first seed and the second one think of their future life.
3. epithet : fertile soil.
4. metaphor : the first seed- pessimistic people, the second seed- optimistic people
                     the fertile soil- the same convenient life condition
                     hen scratching for food- difficulties in life

II. Message:
In the same condition, optimistic people desire for success and gain good results while pessimistic only see difficulties, dangers and do not dare to try then always have to deal with hardship.













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Entry 1_Nguyen Thi Tuong Vi

 Entry 1_Nguyen Thi Tuong Vi




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

                                                 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.

   Source:http://www.bestteenpoems.com/poem/time-will-pass

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 wash
                                         it 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

source: http://www.toonpool.com/cartoons/Economic%20growth_25082

 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.

Entry 1_ Lê Thị Ngoc Mai

Entry 1_ Lê Thị Ngọc Mai

                Item 1:         The cookie thief 

A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shop, bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.
She was engrossed in her book, but happened to see that the man beside
her, as bold as could be, grabbed a cookie from the bag between, which she tried to ignore, to avoid a scene.
She read, munched cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy “cookie thief” diminished her stock.
She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I wasn’t so nice, I’d blacken his eye!”
With each cookie she took, he took one, too.
When only one was left, she wondered what he’d do. With a smile on his face and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as he ate the other.
She snatched it from him and thought, “Oh brother, This guy has some nerve, and he’s also rude. Why, he didn’t even show any gratitude!”
She had never known when she had been so galled, and sighed with relief when her flight was called.
She gathered her belongings and headed for the gate, refusing to look back at the “thieving ingrate.”
She boarded the plane and sank in her seat,
Then sought her book, which was almost complete.
As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise. There was her bag of cookies in front of her eyes!
“If mine are here,” she moaned with despair. “Then the other were his and he tried to share!” Too late to apologize, she realized with grief that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief!
                                                                                                        

                                                                                                              (Chicken soup for soul)


Rhetorical devices
- Metaphor: Cookies - all the thing in our life that we should share together.
 
Message: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Item 2:    A minor bird 

        I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day;
Have clapped my hands at him from the door
When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
The fault must partly have been in me.
The bird was not to blame for his key.
And of course there must be something wrong
In wanting to silence any song.

                                                                          By Robert Frost  

Rhetorical devices

Metaphor: 

- "a minor bird" is a metaphor for the thing of beauty.

- Rhyme : away - day, me - key, wrong - song.

Message : Keeping everything in nature in its place that it belongs to.

Item 3: Carton

 

Rhetorical:  Irony

Message : Cutting waste makes us more competitive.

(1) http://nes.edu.vn/?p=820
(2) http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-minor-bird/
(3) http://www.awarenessideas.com/1-Energy-Posters-s/9.htm

entry 1_Doan Thi Luu

 

Entry 1_Đoàn Thị Lựu

 

Item 1: Poem

My People

The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.

The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people.

Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people

  Langston Hughes

Rhetorical devices:

Repetition: beautiful, of my people

Conversion: night – faces ; Stars- eyes ; Sun-souls

Parallel structure:

·         night – stars – sun  (doesn’t shine →shines litte→ shines brightly)

                               ( space → smaller space → a unique point)

·         Faces – eyes – souls ( identify quickly →identify carefully→hidden deep inside)

Metaphor:

Ø       stars is plural ( different from night and sun which are single)

Ø      Faces,eyes,souls ( all plural → the beauty of human is abundant and complex)

Ø      night – stars – sun (Sun is the most powerful which removes darkness)

Ø      Faces – eyes – souls ( soul is the most beautiful which hidden inside)

Message: Beauty of people is noble and eternal like nature and universe. Among all elements which create this beauty, soul is the most important and beautiful.

Item 2: Story

Wet Dreams

Puppy eyes stared back at me, sleeping I was. Then there they were his eyes peeking at me from under the sheets. My first thoughts were why am I so wet, but those thoughts would soon dry out. Not a sound was made, his moves were smooth, how was he able to lie beside me, and I not awake? How could I be mad at him, he is always there for me? It doesn’t matter how many times I tell my dog to stay out of my bed, he constantly brings that drooping saliva mouth of his to bed.

Louise Bannerman Big

Rhetorical devices:

Repetition: eyes, sleep

continuous behaviors:  stared at, peeking at, lie beside

adjective: wet, dry, smooth

contrast detail: Although the author slept, he knew what his dog was doing

rhetorical question: How could I be mad at him, he is always there for me?

Message: true love  which is very hard to say comes from tender gestures and behaviors. Look and observe carefully to discover and appreciate them.

Item 3: Picture

                           

Rhetorical devices:

Contract images:

• Rat and cat ( are predator, can’t coexist)
• 12 rats→  a cat
• skinny litte weak    →  fat big strong
• humble  → arrogant
• popular →status

Metaphor:

Ø      A rat dropped a fish  ( fear,nervous,anxious)

Ø      Trumpets and sad faces were toward ground( it seems they were  in a funeral when met  the cat → panic and suffering)

Ø      picture has 2 parts like a story ( the circulation of life)

Message : Identify who we are in society. Compromise, avoid confronting and learn ways to live with enemy because we exist and depend on each other.

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[1] http://www.shortpoems.org/poems/poems_beauty.html

[2] http://www.authorsden.com/categories/story_top.asp?catid=44&id=26539

[3] http://damcuoichuot.viethandy.com/