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.