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/
In my opinion,
Trả lờiXóaIn Item 1, message: The leaders are too big so they can not see the poor.
In Item 2, metaphor: the sun ( internal strength)
the wind ( external strength)
In Item 3: metaphor: the wall, the shadow ( difficulty)
the sun ( our dreams)
Message: Our dreams will break difficulty.
item 1: message: the leaders can not see the poor by their unilateral consideration:
Trả lờiXóaitem 2:the sun is not weak ,the sun use his intelligence to solve problem.
item 3: ok
Well, I would like to put some comments on your entry!
Trả lờiXóaItem 1: I want to add a rhetorical device: metaphor (a binocular is like the interest of leaders which is something very big, far away)
Item 2: Linh, Who is the poet of this poem?