CRITICAL THINKING
Item1: Cartoon
Rhetorical devices:
- Metaphor: (hidden comparison: the earth is melting like an ice-scream; the attitude of human beings on the earth is similar to smiling face on the ice-scream
- Irony: the contrast between a situation of emergency of globe warming and a joyful attitude of human beings
- Overstatement: the globe warming is exaggerated as an emergency similar to a melting ice-scream.
Message: the earth is being destroyed due to the globe warming -an urgent problem facing human beings; however, man keeps indifferently and enjoys themselves.
Item2: Poem
Your Laugh is like a Silver Bell
Your laugh is like a silver bell:
Clean and light and free;
Just like the hours of happiness
Your friendship brings to me.
Clean and light and free;
Just like the hours of happiness
Your friendship brings to me.
You're like a room of sweet wind chimes
Enlightened by a breeze,
Or like an open, grassy field
Dotted with old trees.
Enlightened by a breeze,
Or like an open, grassy field
Dotted with old trees.
I'm grateful for the things you do,
But more for what you are:
A breath of clear, bright open sea,
Of life beyond the bar.
But more for what you are:
A breath of clear, bright open sea,
Of life beyond the bar.
Rhetorical devices:
- Rhyme: free - me; breeze – trees; are – bar
- Simile: comparison between: laugh and a silver bell; you and a room of sweet wind chimes and an open, grassy field
Item3: Cartoon
Rhetorical devices:
- Irony: the contrast between the serious water pollution and the relaxing attitude of human beings
- Overstatement: the amount of waste water is so much that people can surf on it
References:
http://globalwarming2009.blogspot.com/
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/p/pollution.asp
in my opinion your entry is quite good. here are some points to improve it:
Trả lờiXóaitem 1: it's interesting, its rhetorical devices is exact but the i do not suppose that it has irony
item 2:the rhetorical devices of the message should be a complete sentences
item 3: this item is good.
i think your work is generally ok. however, there is still one thing i'd like to share with you. it's about your third item's message. from my point of view, the message here not just simply "human beings can do nothing, except keeping a relaxing attitude" but it's that human really do not care about the environment, about the pollution. they take it easy as if it is not a big deal. they are able to do many things to help control the problem but they have't done anything and may be will not do. they seem to be ignorant and indifferent
Trả lờiXóano, they not just "seem", but "really"
Trả lờiXóaIngeneral, your post is ok.From this, I sure that you care about environmental pollution.However,in my viewpoint,you shouldn't select 2 cartoons about environment for your entry because it makes sence of recurrence :(
Trả lờiXóaItem 1: this is a relevant and funny comparision: the earth is melting likes an ice-cream.
Item 2:I resume the parallelism in this poem
Item 3: look at the little boy,he is surfing in a huge amount of waste.This imply that,human being will have no where place their foot ,they have live with waste everywhere if people don't stop polluting the environment.
In general, your entry is quite good. It is very lkely.
Trả lờiXóaI like the item 3 most. However, I agree with Hoa that human in this picture is indifferent or unaware of the polluted environment.