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/