“I live high in the hills and my body is getting old. One day I was out in my garden fussing with weeds and grew tired. I decided to lie back on the grass and rest like I used to when I was a small boy.
I woke up some minutes later with a neighbor I had never met leaning over me, all out of breath, asking me if were okay.He had looked out his window two blocks up the hill and saw me lying on my back on the grass, looking, I am sure,like the victim of a stroke or heart attrack,and had run all the way down the hill to check on me.
It was embarrassing, but it was also so wonderfully touching. After we had it all aorted out, he let out a deep breath and lay down on the grass beside me. We both stayed there very quietly for a while and then he said, “Thank you for deciding to take your nap out on the lawn where I could see you and come here. The sky is such a beautiful thing, and I cannot remember the last time I really looked at it”.
Rhetorical devices: Metaphor
Moral lesson : People should stop amoment, cease your work, look around you.
Text 2: Friendship
“ Many people will walk in and out of your life.
But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
To handle yourself, use your head:
To handle others, use your heart.
Friends
Anger is only one letter short of danger
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault;
If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
Great minds discuss events;
Smallminds discuss people.
He, who loses money, loss much;
He, who loses a friend, loses much more;
He, who loses faith, loses all.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature,
But beautiful old people are works of art.
Learn from the mistakes of others
You can’t live long enough to make them all
yourself.
Friends, you and me…
You brought another friend…
And then there were 3…
We started our group….
Our circle of friends…”
Rhetorical devices: Assonance, Rhyme, Climax, Repetition
Moral lesson: Friends are very important so we can not live without friendship.
Text3 :
Moral lesson : We need to do 3R to protect the environment such as : Reduce – Reuse – Recycle.
I think you should make clear the rhetorical devices in each item. For example:
Trả lờiXóaIn item 2:
Rhyme: Head-heart
Climax: betrays you once-> betrays you twice;
loses money-loss much -> who loses a friend-loses much more ->who loses faith, loses all
Parallelism:
To handle yourself, use your head:
To handle others, use your heart.
Great minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people
Repetition: " To handle";"use your" "He, who loses"...
Antithesis: Beautiful young people-accidents of nature >< beautiful old people-works of art.