Entry1_VuThiDuyen

Item 1:

Where the Mind is Without Fear

                                                                                      (Tagore)

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;

Where knowledge is free;

Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;

Where words come out from the depth of truth;

Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection:

Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;

Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action

Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.

I. Rhetorical devices:

1.Repetition: "Where" at the beginning of lines.

2. Metonymy: - "Mind" refers to the person ( part for the whole)

                      - Head held high stands for high self esteem

                      -  Narrow, domestic walls refer to a separation

                      - The striving refers to the peopls striving for perfection.
                     Tireless striving is the word transferred from people who strive for freedom

                      - “the dreary desert sand” with “dead habit”

3. Alliteration: -the head is held high (h is repeated)

                      - the dreary desert sand of dead habit  (d)

                        

II. Message:

The author emphasises the plight (stuck) of his native land ( India was taken over by Bristish ) and prays for a heaven of freedom. You will respect the freedom more an more through the poem

Items 2:

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them

fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit

was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The

two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit

with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop,

that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took

heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down

and died.

The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again,

the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He

jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the

other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to

them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the

entire time.

I.Rherotical devices:

    1. Simile:    “a deep pit “~“as good as dead”

              “to jump as hard as he could”

2.   Metaphor: “Jump up out the pit” ~ to overcome the difficulties

3.   Repitition: the frog

                the pit

                as good as dead

                todl/tell/yell

                die

II.Message

An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up, encourage
and help them believe in life. However, a destructive word to someone who is down can kill them so that you should be careful of what you say!

Item 3:

I.                   Rhetorical device:

-          Irony: The man try to focus but what he can thinks is nothing except for a word ‘focus’ as a machine.

II.                 Message: we should be open to new ideas or creation when acquiring knowlege. If we use the knowledge or do something as a machine , it is worthless.