Entry 1_ Đỗ Thị An

Entry 1 Item 1 : Poem Value Of Time [1]

~Seema Chowdhury ~

Time is precious don't let it pass by For once its gone, there's nothing but to cry So be strong and hold some Give some and take some Time is water, don't let it dry For once its gone, there's nothing but to cry So be quick and keep some Use some and gain some Time is money don't let it fly For once it's gone, there's nothing but to cry So be wise and grasp some Give some and gain some Time is precious don't let it pass by For once it's gone, there's nothing but to cry.

Rhetorical devices:

Ø Simile : Time – water

Time – money

Ø Repetition: The last paragraph is the repetition of the first one.

Repetition of grammatical structure:

	Time is + ............ , don’t let it + .......... So be + adj & Verb + some

Ø Inversion : so be + ......

Moreover, adjectives ( strong, quick, wise)after “ So be” belong to one group of vocabulary, verbs (hold, keep, grasp) belong to one group of vocabulary which expresses the act of people to take something in their hand.

Ø Parallelism : give some - take some

Use some - gain some

Give some – gain some

Message : Time is valuable. We must appreciate time, because “Time is free, but it’s priceless. you can’t own it, but you can use it. You can keep it but you can spend it. Once you have lost it, you can never got it back” ( Harvey Mackay)

Item 2: Story

Stories of two notes [2]

A US $1 note met a US $ 20 note. The US 1 $ note asked:

- Hey, my friend. Where have you been since our last meet?

- Oh, I have been in a lot of places: casinos, coffee shops, horse – race gambles... I have just back from traveling in Europe. And now I am in American. And you?

- You know already! I have traveled in charity boxes, churches and orphanages....

Rhetorical devices:

Ø metaphor: A US $ 1 note and a US $ 20 note represent the give and take.

- A US 1 $ note: what people “ give” – what they spend for other people on public and social activities such as charity..

- A US 20 $ note: what people “ take” – What they spend for themselves on individual purposes to satisfy their desire

Ø contrast: $1 > < $ 20

Low, small value High, big value

There is a contrast between places:

Casinos, coffee shops, horse-race gambles	> <	charity boxes, churches, orphanages
Luxurious places for recreation, where satisfy human desire.		organization for humanity

Message: people seem to be quite selfish when they spend too much on private desire but too little on humanity activities. The life needs give and take. We should give more and more to express our humanity instead of wasting money on unnecessary recreation.

Item 3: Cartoon

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Rhetorical devices:

Ø Metonymy: A withering tree – Forest being destroyed

Axes – The deforestation of human beings

Ø Overstatement: There are too many axes in only one tree.

The last leaf leaves the tree &those axes replace the position of leaves

ð In the tree, leaves turn into axes.

Message: Human beings are deforesting seriously. This destruction may lead to the extermination of nature because it is seemed that our fragile forest, fragile nature can’t stand the human formidable devastation anymore. We must protect our forest from being destroyed.

Sources:

[1] : The book “ Series of English funny stories” – Tran Manh Tuong . University of Pedagody

[2]:http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/value-of-time/

[3] : http://fr.toonpool.com/cartoons/Environment%20cartoon_108372