Item 1: Cartoon
- Rhetorical devices:
Metaphor:
Inspector is dazzled because the amount of money is too
large to run the offenses
The train which transposts the money does not end shows
that people can pay a huge amount of money to free sins
Message:
Money could buy justice.
by preventing the investigative processes from being carried out.
Item 2: Poem
Shakespeare: Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Rhetorical devices:
Repetition: “To-morrow”
Metaphor: “Creeps in this petty pace”-->daily
life
Metaphor: “brief candle”-->human
life
Simile: “Life's but a walking
shadow, a poor player”
Message: human
life is short, live each moment meaningful so that until you died, you do not have to
regret about anything
Item 3: Story
The Sick Lion
A
Lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by
force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and lying down
there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly
known. The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where
the Lion devoured them. After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox
discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside
of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was. "I am
very middling," replied the Lion, "but why do you stand without? Pray
enter within to talk with me." "No, thank you," said the Fox.
"I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see
no trace of any returning."
Rhetorical
devices:
Metaphor:
Lion: unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force,
resolved to do so by artifice.--> using bad tricks , taking advantage of other's kindness to survive
The
Fox: said: "I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave,
but I see no trace of any returning."--> being awake, to recognize bad tricks from the unusual cases have happened to others
Message:
Sometimes, there are bad tricks to survive in the life, but people also need to be alert to
recognize these tricks in order to not make mistakes
Sources:
i have some comments about your first item Cartoon:
Trả lờiXóa1, the picture should be in English
2, in the metaphor, you didn't show clearly who or what is compared with what by speaking of one in terms of the other
3, about the message of the picture, i don't think this pic means "money could buy anything". The pic is showing that an inspector is being interupted by money on his to search for justice.
thank for your comment, Hien.
XóaFirst, I do like your item 1 because this cartoon somehow reflect a really big and hot situation in our real life, so people may be interested in it. I agree with Hien that you should clarify more about the metaphor that is used. However, from this cartoon, I can not see anything that indicates money could buy anything. In my opinion, it just shows the seduction of money that can easily daze the inspector. I think you should consider again the message :)
Trả lờiXóaSecond, about the poem, I myself find it hard to understand it. I think that you have done a good job when realizing a lot of the rhetorical devices that are used to know the message that the poet transfer.
Finally, about the story, I think there might also have parallelism here: “After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was”. I think it a little bit hard to understand the mesage. You should rearrange the words in the 1st part of the sentence to make it right in terms of grammar and meaning.
thank you so much, Thuong
Xóayour comment is meticulous.
First of all, I can see that you have put a lot of time and efforts into this exercise, and you do have a good taste of poem, since I really like this one, and you also show a deep understanding of the poem as well. However, I have to say that I quite agree with Long's opinion that it is not a metonymy but rather a metaphor. And I suggest that you take Hien's comment on the cartoon into consideration since hers is a very good one as well.
Trả lờiXóathank you, Ha
Xóai will improve my assignment
I think that we can learn one more lesson from the story: Perhaps, we meet with difficulties in our life. However, there's always solutions to any problems and it may takes time to find that. Although you can't resolve it absolutely, you can make the situation better.
Trả lờiXóathank you, Long
Trả lờiXóayour comment is very useful
thank Tuan Anh
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