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Item 1: Poem

A dream deferred

By Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load. Or does it explode?  Rhetorical devices:
1. Rhetorical questions: "What happens to a dream deferred?", "Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?""Or fester like a sore and then run?", etc.
2. Simile:  "like a raisin", "like a sore", "like rotten meat", "like a syrupy sweet", "like a heavy load"
3. Climax: from "dry up" to "fester", "stink", "crust", "sag", to "explode" --> an increase in the power of the verbs.
4. Continual repetition of the structure " Does it" and "Or", like vigorous questions that never end in the author's mind.
5. Rhymes: sun - run, meat - sweet, load - explode

Source:   http://www.cswnet.com/~menamc/langston.htm
Messages:  A dream, though deferred, can never die. It will not dry out, nor it will fester, stink or crust in the heart of the dreamer. A deferred dream, instead, will finally bust out, or "explode". In short, the author wants to tell us: always believe in your dreams, although they may seem impossible for the time being, or temporarily delayed.
Item 2: Story
Old Behrman was a painter who lived on the ground floor beneath them. He was past sixty and had a Michael Angelo's Moses beard curling down from the head of a satyr along with the body of an imp. Behrman was a failure in art. Forty years he had wielded the brush without getting near enough to touch the hem of his Mistress's robe. He had been always about to paint a masterpiece, but had never yet begun it. For several years he had painted nothing except now and then a daub in the line of commerce or advertising. He earned a little by serving as a model to those young artists in the colony who could not pay the price of a professional. He drank gin to excess, and still talked of his coming masterpiece. For the rest he was a fierce little old man, who scoffed terribly at softness in any one, and who regarded himself as especial mastiff-in-waiting to protect the two young artists in the studio above.
Rhetorical devices:
1. Symbols:
to wield the brush: to draw or to work as an artist
to touch the hem of his Mistress's robe: to reach the pinnacle of his success
2. Metaphor:
 a failure in art: someone who cannot success in art
Message:  Old Behrman was an artist who always wanted to succeed in his career but could never make it

Source: http://www.online-literature.com/donne/1303/
Item 3: Cartoon











Rhetorical device: 
Paradox: there can never be more wars than jobs, thus it is illogical that finding a war is easier than a job
Irony: nowadays, there have been so many wars and conflicts, while the unemployment rate is increasing, thus being a soldier is much better off than a scholar.
Message: The world is in a crisis. We are making so many wars, while the economy has not recovered.

Source: http://www.google.com.vn/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=eSeangZdMszWKM&tbnid=jcKzvIKBrZIQbM:&ved=0CAQQjB0&url=http%3A%2F%2Fraquelgfernandez.blogspot.com%2F2012%2F02%2Fpolitical-cartoons.html&ei=toYiUZ_gKOXUigerwICwCg&bvm=bv.42553238,d.aGc&psig=AFQjCNHEG3wq-Gky3If-J8biz4EGJMU-Pg&ust=1361303602966483