Entry 1_ Le Thi Thu Suong

Entry 1_ Le Thi Thu Suong
Item 1: Picture

http://hoasibiem.com/252/biem-hoa-vui-nuoc-ngoai-ky-5.html

 Rhetorical devices:

Symbol: The postman- insensitive peole who are indifferent to others

                A hand in water - people having difficulties in their lives.

 Message:

Many people see the others falling into difficult situations but turn a blind eye. They only do the jobs belonging to his responsibility and duty. Selfishness has turned them into insensitive people, indifferent to others.

Item 2: Poem

 Time Will Pass

                                                                                                                   © Janelle

                                                  Life is something you can not fake
                                                  you live and learn from each mistake
                                                  Sunny days or cloudy skies
                                                  Happy Greetings or Sad Goodbyes
                                                  So don't sit by and let time pass
                                                  For live each day like your last

                                                 This is something that you must do
                                                 if you expect to grow and stick it through
                                                 All the sadness all the pain wash
                                                 it away like the rain.
                                                 Fast or slow whatever your pace
                                                 take your time life is not a race.

   Source:http://www.bestteenpoems.com/poem/time-will-pass

Rhetorical devices:   

    - Rhyme: fake-mistakes, skies-Goodbyes, pass-last, do-through, pain-rain, pace-race.

    - Antithesis: Sunny days-Cloudy skies, Happy Greetings-Sad Goodbyes.

     - Bathos:                  All the sadness all the pain wash
                                         it away like the rain.
   - Metaphor: Sunny day, Happy greeting: good day ( or success)
                          Cloudy skies, sad goodbyes: bad day ( or failure )


Message : Do not waste any moment of your life, whether it's filled with sadness or joy. You yourself should live and enjoy it to the fullest

Item 3: Story

The Fox and the Grapes 

One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success. Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."


  Source: http://www.aesops-fables.org.uk/aesop-fable-the-fox-and-the-grapes.htm

Rhetorical devices: 

     - Metaphor: 

           + The fox: a person 

           + a bunch of grapes:a good opportunity but hard to get.

     - Irony:

           + the fox cannot jump high enough to get the grapes, but he doesn't think about another way to get them => Fool.

           +the fox cannot get the grapes, but pretend that the grapes are not good enough for him => arrogant

Moral lesson: 

   - Do not make excuse for your failure

  .- There are many way that lead you to success. If you get the wrong way, turn back and go the other.

   - Try hard if you want to gain something.