Entry1_ Trương Thị Yến (09031558)

Entry 1

Item 1: Poem 

Try Again (by Anonymous)

'Tis a lesson you should heed,
Try, try, try again;
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try, try again.
Once or twice though you should fail
Try again;
If you would at last prevail,
Try again.
If we strive, 'tis no disgrace
Though we may not win the race;
What should you do in that case?
Try again.
If you find your task is hard,
Try again;
Time will bring you your reward,
Try again.
All that other folks can do,
With your patience should not you?
Only keep this rule in view—
Try again.

Rhetorical devices:

• Rhyme: heed- succeed; fail- prevail; disgrace-race; hard- rewar;…
• Parallelism: Once or twice though you should fail

              Try again;
               If you would at last prevail,
              Try again.

              …..

• Repetition: try again, try again

Message:

 Although you do not succeed or fail to do hard task, you should try persistently in any case.

Item 2: Story

The story of a woodcutter

Once upon a time, a very strong woodcutter asked for a job in a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was really good and so was the work condition. For those reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he supposed to work.

The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees.

" congratulations" the boss said. "Go on that way!"

Very motivated by the boss words, the woodcutter tried harder the next day, but he could only bring 15 trees. The third day, he tried even hard, but he could only bring 10 trees. Day after day he was bringing less and less trees.

" I must be losing my strength", the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.

"when was the last time you sharpened your axe?" the boss asked. "sharpen?" "I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees…"

Rhetorical devices:

Metaphor: “woodcutter” ( people who are very busy)

 “sharpen axe” (the truly important things in life)

Message: If people are too hard- working and do not take the time to make the truly important things in life, they will lose their effectiveness.

Item 3: cartoon

Rhetorical devices

Metaphor: snail ( the earth)

overstatement: the speed of greenhouse gas emissions cuts

Message: 

The speed of G-8 nations’s greenhouse gas emissions cuts is very slow with 50% by 2050