Entry 1_Nguyen Cam Ha_11041400

Entry 1_Nguyen Cam Ha_11041400

Term 1

A symbol :Black hand, white hand, yellow hand: everyon over in the world

                  Sos : case of emergency.

Message: Everyone should protect together the green Earth which is being in case of emergency.

Term 2.

Keep On Smiling

© Alexandra Skiathitis

If at times you feel you want to cry.
And life seems such a trial.
Above the clouds there’s a bright blue sky
So make your tears a smile.

As you travel on life’s way
With its many ups and downs
Remember it’s quite true to say
One smile is worth a dozen frowns.

Among the world expensive things
A smile is very cheap
And when you give a smile away,
You get one back to keep.

Happiness comes at times to all
But sadness comes unbidden
And sometimes a few tears must fall
Among the laughter hidden.

So when friends have sadness on their face
And troubles round them piled
The world will seem a better place
And all because you smiled

Source: Keep On Smiling, Life Lesson Poem http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/keep-on-smiling#ixzz2etDYMpAl 

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Rhetorical devices

Rhyme    :  “cry” – “trial” – “sky” – “smile”. 

                  “way” – “say” , “downs” – “frowns”

                  “cheap” – “keep”

                  “all” – “fall”, “unbidden” – “hidden”. 

                 “face” – “place” , “piled” – “smiled”

Simile :    “smile is worth a dozen frowns”.

                “life seems such a trial” – the life are full of challengings, tribulations, troubles.

Metaphor:

-        “Above the clouds there’s a bright blue sky”

                       +   “The clouds” (difficulties, sadness in life )

 +   “ a bright blue sky” ( happiness, good thing are behind ‘the clouds of life”)

-       “Many ups and downs”( success or failure, happiness or sadness, good time of bad time in life)

Antithesis:      +  “expensive things among the world” and “ a cheap smile”

                       + “ Happiness comes at times to all”

                           “ Sadness comes unbidden”

Message: whatever happens, everyone should always smile for a better life.

Term 3

A salt seller used to carry the salt bag on his donkey to the market every day. On the way they had to cross a stream. One day the donkey suddenly tumbled down the stream and the salt bag also fell into the water. The salt dissolved in the water and hence the bag became very light to carry. The donkey was happy.

Then the donkey started to play the same trick every day. The salt seller came to understand the trick and decided to teach a lesson to it. The next day he loaded a cotton bag on the donkey. Again it played the same trick hoping that the cotton bag would be still become lighter.

But the dampened cotton became very heavy to carry and it suffered much. It learnt a lesson. Afterwards it did not play the trick and the seller was happy.

http://zendictive.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/smarter-than-the-average-bear/

Situational Irony: The salt dissolved in the water and hence the bag became very light to carry but with the cotton bag , it became more heavy

message : lucky do not always make good results in all cases.              

      

                   

Entry 1_Nguyen Thi Man_11040648

Entry 1_Nguyen Thi Man_11040648

Entry 1

Item 1: Poem

“If I were a bee and you were a rose, 

Would you let me in when the gray wind blows? 

Would you hold your petals wide apart,

Would you let me in to find your heart,

If you were a rose?

If I were a rose and you were a bee, 

You should never go when you came to me, 

I should hold my love on my heart at last, 

I should close my leaves and keep you fast, 

If you were a bee."

SARA TEASDALE

Source site:

http://www.iconte.org/FileUpload/ks59689/File/173.pdf

Rhetorical devices:

*Simile: I-bee, you-rose ; I-rose, you-bee

*Repetition: “If I were … and you were …”

*Rhetorical question:

“Would you let me in when the gray wind blows? 

Would you hold your petals wide apart,

Would you let me in to find your heart,

If you were a rose? “

Message: Whatever you are, you are not open with me.

Item 2:Story

“Monkey and her baby

One day the king of the gods decided to find out which of the animals had the most beautiful baby. So he asked every kink of animal to come and show him their baby. He said he would give the animal with the most beautiful baby and a big prize.

All the animals said they would come, for they all wanted to win the prize for having the most beautiful baby

The animals came in a long time, each with a baby to show the king. There was a cow and her calf, a dog and her puppy, a cat and her kitten, a sheep with her little lamb, a lion and her cub, a goat and her kid – in fact all the animals you can think of, with her baby

They all passed in front of the king. He looked carefully at each baby to see which was the most beautiful. All the animals wondered which baby the king would choose to win the prize

Having seen all the animals in the big parade the king of the goods was just about to say who the winner was when a monkey came running in carrying her baby. She thrust her baby into the king’s arms.

The king stared down at the little creature with its wrinkled face and screwed-up eyes. “What ever is this? “ asked the king.

The king thought it was the ugliest thing he had ever seen. He held the baby well away from himself and stared at it. “Take it away! “ he said. “It is the ugliest baby I have ever seen! “

All the other animals began to laugh.

The mother monkey took her baby and cuddled it in her arms. “I don’t care what you said” she said. “You can give the prize to whoever you like. I know that my baby is the most beautiful baby of all.’

Monkeys like all mothers, think that their own child is the best.”

(African folktale)

Source site:

http://www.verbalartscentre.co.uk/T3/assets/Professor%20Fisher's%20Handout.pdf

Rhetorical devices:

*Metaphor: Monkey mother – human mother

                    The king and the other animal – community

Message:

However community thinks, the mother always thinks her baby is the best

Item 3: Picture

Link: https://facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=611295372224963&id=117621244925714&set=a.119973301357175.13570.117621244925714&source=48&__user=100003658126975

Rhetorical devices:

*Metonymy: the white person – people ; the black person – Government ; fish – what people have gained

Message: The Government takes insidiously what people have gained

Entry 1 _ Trần Thị Ánh Hồng _ 10031168

Item 1: A story

The fox and the grapes

One afternoon, a fox was walking through the forest and spotted a bunch of grapes hanging from over a lofty branch.

“Just the thing to quench my thirst,” he thought. Taking a few steps back, the fox jumped and just missed the hanging grapes. Again the fox took a few paces back and tried to reach them but still failed.

Finally, giving up, the fox turned up his nose and said, “They’re probably sour anyway,” and proceeded to walk away.

Rhetorical device: Irony

Moral: It’s easy to despise what you cannot have.

Item 2: A poem

Invidual golf

He stood upon the link’s first tee
And made a straight and perfect drive.
His iron he sliced around a tree,
Dead to the pin. Instead of five
He holed a single putt for three.

Another perfect shot was made

 Two hundred fifty yards or more.
A midiron with a lofted blade
He used to help his medal score,
For with it dead, the ball he laid.

Two threes he had to start the round.
Next came a short and well trapped hole.
His drive, a cleek, rose from the ground
Straight for the green and on the pole
He holed a two with smile profound.

Thus went his game in less than par

 A record for all time, you guess.
No hook nor slice his score to mar;
No balls in rough all down  in less
Than almost nothing—there you are.

No, gentle golfer, ’twas no dream
In which this magic score was  made,
Although at first it so would seem
When former cards were cast in shade,
By this titanic play supreme.

But now the secret bare is shown
Of how these threes and fours were done.
Some putts, of course, he could disown

 In fact, he never claimed but one,
For this great golfer played alone.

Far greater than the best of clubs
Is one lone pencil in the hand

 It saves a hundred strokes to dubs
And proves a blessing in the land
Because it never counts the flubs.

 Rhetorical devices: Rhyme, metaphor.

Moral: When golfers tell of shots unknown just ask them if they played alone

Item 3: Picture

Rhetorical device: Symbol.

Moral: You'll fail if you give up.

Entry 1: Nguyễn Thị Anh _ 10031110

Five more minutes

While at the park one day, a woman sat down next to a man on a bench near a playground.  “That’s my son over there,” she said, pointing to a little boy in a red sweater who was gliding down the slide.  “He’s a fine looking boy” the man said. “That’s my daughter on the bike in the white dress.”

Then, looking at his watch, he called to his daughter. “What do you say we go, Melissa?”  Melissa pleaded, “Just five more minutes, Dad. Please? Just five more minutes.”  The man nodded and Melissa continued to ride her bike to her heart’s content. Minutes passed and the father stood and called again to his daughter. “Time to go now?”

Again Melissa pleaded, “Five more minutes, Dad. Just five more minutes.”  The man smiled and said, “OK.”  “My, you certainly are a patient father,” the woman responded.

The man smiled and then said, “Her older brother Tommy was killed by a drunk driver last year while he was riding his bike near here. I never spent much time with Tommy and now I’d give anything for just five more minutes with him. I’ve vowed not to make the same mistake with Melissa.  She thinks she has five more minutes to ride her bike. The truth is, I get five more minutes to watch her play.”

Rhetorical devices:  climax, metaphor

Message: Life is all about making priorities, and family is one and only priority on top of all, so spend all time you can with your loved ones.

 

"Love is Patient"

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking,
it is not easily angered,
it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.

Rhetorical devices: repetition, metaphor

Message: Love always brings us the best things, so we shouldn’t distore the true meaning of love.

 

 

Rhetorical devices: metaphor, irony, overstatement

Message: While poverty is the lack of food in order to sustain their life, the rich are grabbing their food on propose of making fuel to run vehicles.

 

Entry1_Hoàng Thị Linh (09066032)

ENTRY 1
Item 1: Picture































Rhetorical Device: 
-          Metaphor: big man: the governnment, the leader
                       small man: poor inhabitant
-          Antithesis:  between the poor  and the rich
Message: the weakness and shortcoming of the government/ leader on managing the country.
Source: http://123facebook.com/2013/01/20/cant-see-where-are-the-poor-peoples/305012_570465899647681_545041637_n/

Item 2: Story

The Sun and The Wind

Once The Sun and The Wind happened to have a quarrel. Both of them claimed to be stronger. At last they agreed to have a trial of strength.

"Here comes a traveller. Let us see who can strip him of his cloak?" said the Sun.

The Wind agreed and did choose to have the first turn.

He blew in the hardest possible way.

As a result, the traveller wrapped his cloak even more tightly around him.

Then it was the turn of the Sun. At first he shone very gently. The sun went on shining brighter and brighter. The traveller felt hot.

Before long he took off his cloak and put it in his bag.

The Wind accepted his defeat.

Rhetorical device:
 - metaphor: the sun: weak
                   the wind: strength
Message: we can not use external power to prove all, because the power exists in its own right
Source: http://www.english-for-students.com/The-Sun-and-The-Wind.html

Item 3: Poem

As I Grew Older

It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun-
My dream.
And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky-
The wall.
Shadow.
I am black.
I lie down in the shadow.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.
Only the thick wall.
Only the shadow.
My hands!
My dark hands!
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!

Rhetorical device:
Metaphor: 
- the wall: difficult problem
- the sun: author’s dreams 
Repetition: slowly, wall, in to a thousand, hands
Message: we should keep our dream, and try to perform its, because it is important. 
Source: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/as-i-grew-older/ 

Entry 1_ Đào Thị Thu Hương (10032047)

Entry 1

Item 1: Poem

Fame is a fickle food [1]

                    ( Emily Dickinson)

Fame is a fickle food

Upon a shifting plate

Whose table once a

Guest but not

The second time is set

Whose crumbs the crows inspect

And with ironic caw

Flap past it to the

Farmer’s corn

Men eat of it and die

Rhetorical devices:

·        Consonance: fame – fickle – food, crumbs – crows...

·        Simile: Fame – fickle food

·        Metaphor: fickle – likely to change → fickle food – changeable fame, crows – people who always inspect and look at the crumbs of the fame struck person...

Message:

Fame is always changing, and people that chase after it will be tied to the

world in a continuing cycle of births and deaths.

Item 2: Story

Encouragement: The Gift Opener [2]

(From Writer's Whirlpool)

In high school, I was terrified of taking an English class from one particular teacher. I heard she was hard from student informants. I doubted my ability to comprehend and keep up with the concepts, the teacher and the really smart students. I tried to get out of it but could not. I planned to do the minimum until I learned we had to write something everyday in a journal, let her read it, criticize it and grade it. Me? Write daily about something personal and let someone more knowing than me read it? I feared not graduating more than I feared not being good enough.

I rambled through the routine, wrote whatever and gambled with true feelings. In return, I received praise, encouragement, silence, gentle guidance and freedom to write my thoughts my way. Needless to say, writing then has helped writing now because that journal assignment was much more than an English lesson. It has helped shape my acceptance of this and other gifts as the purest form of praise to the Great Giver of Gifts. It opened my confidence, self view and worldview just enough. I learned another method to understand and communicate with myself and others.

Encouragement in any form is a gift opener. We do angelic things when we consider the needs of others.

Rhetorical devices:

·        Simile: Encouragement – gift opener

·        Metaphor: gift opener ( open someone’s confidence and abilities, help someone to be better)

Message:

Encouragement in any form is a gift opener that helps someone be more confident and successful.

Item 3: Cartoon

Rhetorical devices:

·        Overstatement: a boy is using so many kinds of advanced technology at the same time.

·        Metonymy: Computer, laptop, headphone... – advanced technology, lighting – electromagnetic wave that harms people.

Message:

          People depend too much on advanced technology, which harms people’s health.

Source:

1. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182804
2. http://www.usiku.net/simile-metaphor-allegory.htm
3. http://scpoc.blogspot.com/2011/05/technology-helpful-or-harmful-by-hannah.html

Entry 1_Nguyễn Thị Quỳnh Hoa (09041116_09/04/91)

Entry 1

Item 1

Please Look a Little Deeper 

( By Tiffany Trutenko )

Please don't judge me by my face, 
By my religion or my race, 
Please don't laugh at what I wear, 
Or how I look or do my hair, 
Please look a little deeper, 
Way deep down inside, 
And although you may not see it, 
I have a lot to hide, 
Behind my clothes my secrets lie, 
Behind my smile I softly cry, 
Please look a little deeper, 
And maybe you will see, 
The lonely little girl, 
That lives inside of me, 
Please listen carefully to her, 
She'll show you she's insecure, 
Please try to be a friend to her, 
And show her that you care, 
Please just get to know her, 
And maybe you will see, 
That maybe if you look deep enough, 
You'll find the real me. 

Rhetorical devices: 

+ Rhyme: face - race, wear - hair, hide - lie - cry...

+ Repetition: Please look a little deeper

Message:

We should not judge a person superficially by their appearance.

Item 2

Moral story

Thomas Edison tried two thousand different materials in
search of a filament for the light bulb. When none worked
satisfactorily, his assistant complained, "All our work is
in vain. We have learned nothing."

Edison replied very confidently, "Oh, we have come a
long way and we have learned a lot. We now know that
there are two thousand elements which we cannot use
to make a good light bulb.

Rhetorical devices: 

Metaphor: two thousand different materials (mistakes), light bulb (success).

Message:

No one can get succeed in the first attempts. Learning from mistakes can lead to success. 

Item 3

Rhetorical devices:

 Metaphor: the bird (natural resources), children (population)

Message:

The population grows rapidly, natural resources are exhausting gradually. Without measures to limit population explosion, there will not be enough resources for human life.

Sources:

1.http://smiley00.tripod.com/poem224.html

2.http://academictips.org/blogs/learn-from-mistakes/

3.https://www.google.com.vn/search?q=cartoon+of+overpopulation&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=NDk0UpVUkZ_uBpN7&ved=0CCsQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=675&dpr=1#facrc=_&imgrc=wv1zGPVveMI9SM%3A%3Bvh3PXJS1EYv1fM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ffilipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com%252F2008%252F05%252Fstork.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ffilipspagnoli.wordpress.com%252F2008%252F05%252F17%252Fhuman-rights-cartoon-82%252F%3B423%3B300

Entry 1_Nguyễn Thanh_Tùng (11041300)

Item 1: Poem

SEIZE THE DAY
Live each day as if it were your last
I tell you dear friend time is running so fast
All of us would one day return to dust
I know it's hard to accept but we must

Tell the people you love about the way you feel
Give them a hug and show them love that is real
Say sorry to those you offended so wounds would heal
Accepting your faults is not really a big deal

Do it now and don't tarry lest it be too late
Sometimes it's not wise for the right time to wait
Because your plans could be ruined by fate
If you do it now you would feel really great

Smell the pretty flowers, listen to birds singing so gay
Enjoy the beauty of nature give yourself time to play
Remember on this earth we can't forever stay
So I tell you now is the time, go ahead and seize the day.

 Rhetorical devices:

Rhyme: Last – fast, dust – must, feel – real, heal – deal, late – wait, fate – great, gay – play, stay – day.

Repetition: seize the day.

Message.

Life is short, people should treasure every moment of life.

Item 2: Story

A hungry wolf was on the prowl. He met a dog passing by and requested him for some food. The dog took pity on the wolf and said, “Cousin, you should also work for a master like me. You will be given good food every day.” The wolf agreed to go with the dog to his master’s place so that he could share the dog’s work. On the way, the wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of the dog’s neck was worn away.

He asked the dog how that happened. “Oh,” the dog replied, “it’s just a little thing that’s happened because of the collar that’s put to chain me every night. Earlier it used to annoy me but now I’m used to it so it hardly matters.” On hearing this, the wolf said, “I think this is not the right place for me to work in, so I am leaving.”

The wolf thought that it is better to be free and starve than to be a slave and eat well. He thought that he was better off than the dog and went away.

Rhetorical devices:

Metaphor:

The dog (happiness in slavery)

The wolf (freedom of poverty)

Collar (slavery).

Message:

The freedom of poverty is better than happiness in slavery

Item 3: Cartoons.

Rhetorical devices:

People in the picture (human activities).

A paradox (Human beings continue to live their lives without knowing that the Earth is being destroyed by their actions).

Message:

The human activities are destroying our Earth.

Source:

http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems/best/carpe_diem

http://shortstoriesshort.com/story/the-dog-and-the-wolf/

Entry 1 – Phung Hoai Linh – 11041266 – 02/04/1993

Item 1: Poem

SYMPATHY

By: Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

 KNOW what the caged bird feels, alas!

When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;

When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,

And the river flows like a stream of glass;

When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,

And the faint perfume from its chalice steals--

I know what the caged bird feels!

I know why the caged bird beats his wing

Till its blood is red on the cruel bars;

For he must fly back to his perch and cling

When he fain would be on the bough a-swing;

And a pain still throbs in the old, old scars

And they pulse again with a keener sting--

I know why he beats his wing!

I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,

When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,--

When he beats his bars and he would be free;

It is not a carol of joy or glee,

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core,

But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings--

I know why the caged bird sings!

1.     Message: Being slave is painful

2.     Rhetorical devices

a.     Metaphor: Author uses a metaphor comparing a caged bird beating its wings against its cage until they bleed to his own struggle against oppression. 

b.     Rhyme : alas – grass- glass, steals- feels, wing – cling – swing, sting – wing, me – fee – glee, flings - sings

c.      Repetition : bird,  caged bird

d.     Simile: It is not a carol of joy or glee

Item 2: Cartoon

1.     Rhetorical devices :

a.     Irony: The Earth is threatened by global warming but the president of US is still cool

b.     Metaphor: fire-> Global warming , dipper -> The Earth , frog-> president of US

2.     Message: The Earth is warming but human still have positive action to overcome

Item 3: Story

The mouse, the cat, and the rooster

 

A little mouse went into the yard, she walked around and then went back to her mother.
_"Oh, mother, I saw two animals .One fringhting, the other nice.''
_"Tell me what the animals were like" said the mother.
_" The fringhting one was strutting about the yard" said the mouse. "He had black legs, a red comb, goggled eyes and a hooked nose. When I past , he opened his beak, raised his foot and began to shout so loudly that he scared me stiff"
_" That's the rooster", said the old mouse. "he never does anyone any harm. Don't be afraid of him. But what about the other animal?"
_" The other one was basking in the sun. He had white neck and smooth grey feet. He licked his white chest and waved his tail gently as he looked at me"
_"You are a silly thing!" said the mouse." that was the cat"

Rhetorical devices:

Metaphor:

      - Little mouse: young person who does not have much experience 

      - Rooster: person who looks scare but good-natured and does not hurt anyone.

      - Cat: Person who looks gentle but merciless, wicked

Message: Do not judge someone by his appearance.

Sources:

Item 1: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw219.html

Items 2: http://otherwords.org/corporate-witchcraft/

Items 3: http://2motivate.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/the-evil-you-do-remains-with-you-the-good-you-do-comes-back-to-you/