El esclavo Francisco del Real Capitulo I Cuando recuperé el sentido, me di cuenta de inmediato que algo andaba muy mal, una luz frente a mi hería mis ojos, sin que yo fuera capaz siquiera de parpadear. Intenté desviar la mirada, intenté mover los brazos para tapar mi rostro con las manos sin lograrlo, mi cuerpo entero estaba totalmente paralizado y era recorrido por dolor y frío como jamás lo había sentido. Intenté también gritar y pedir ayuda pero todo fue inútil, algo entraba por mi boca
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“Me talk pretty one day” by David Sedaris ”Understanding doesn’t mean that you can suddenly speak the language. Far from it. It’s a small step, nothing more, yet its rewards are intoxicating and deceptive.” In this story, the narrator tells that it’s not about speaking the language, it’s about understanding it. And if you want to speak the language you need to take it slow, or else you won’t learn it. It’s about hard work and dedication. The theme of the text is learning a foreign language,
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1: Characterisation of Lulu. Lulu seems to be self-assured and confident. This comes out it line 3 "Nancy Sinatra eat your heart out" and in line 8 "...all I could do after admiring myself". If she wasn't confident, she would not be admiring her own reflection in the mirror. She is also fashion-conscious, this is shown in the beginning of the story (line 5), when she buys an expensive pair of boots "they weren't just boots - they were actual Manolos"
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Humorous Devices Pun - "The two pianists had a good marriage. They always were in a chord." (Hyla Hope Harder - Oklahoma) A pun is the humorous word usage where a phrase is used in such a way where the words relate in the context but the meanings are different but I then forms a play on words. This is a pun due too the play on words where it says the pianist were in a marriage which they weren’t they were just close, and the way they were in chord which is a piano term. Hyperbole - "I will
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Satire is everywhere; it is in our speech, the videos we watch, and the books we read. Satire is known as witty critism and can often be found in the form of news; it also has two types, one called Horatian and the other Juvenalian, both named after Roman satirists. Horatian satire is usually more light-hearted and is meant in a laughable way rather than serious, while Juvenalian is the opposite. Juvenalian is harsh and extremely abrasive, if it makes you gasp or say “OMG” it is most likely Juvenalian
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The primary purpose of satire is to encourage a moral or political change in society with the use of irony, exaggeration and humour. In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain ridicules, society’s dehumanising belief in racism and pre-civil war religious hypocrisy. Similarly, in the satirical show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Migrants & Refugee, Oliver exploits the prejudice and religious hypocrisy in the European Immigration systems. With reference to both texts, it can be said
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SNL is known to explore serious social issues in a humorous way to make a point. Their commercial was meant to explain how horrible the Pepsi commercial script was written, and how it itself didn’t manage to get an accurate point across. SNL went over how incredibly inaccurate real protests are to what Pepsi portrayed, how it was created with little thought, used racist stereotypes, and still managed to get a laugh or two out of us. SNLs' parody ad starts off with the "director" discussing how
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I agree with you that the rhetorical appeals, “are not limited to works of English”, but are seen everywhere. I like how you incorporated the use of rhetorical appeals in comedy even before getting into the analysis of the videos. Your descriptions of ethos, pathos, and logos, in comedy were really clear. The next thing you discuss is how these appeals are presented in these videos. I completely agree with your comment that each one of the videos has a rhetorical category. The first one being pathos
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org/information/questions_and_answers/faq4/faq4.html quotes, “"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide." Humor is a tool that makes people laugh. Humor describes the benefits of how humor helps people in situations or lifestyle. II. Thesis: Humor has interesting healing powers that enable us to reduce stress, to spread happiness, and to combat fear. Body I. Main Point: One benefit of humor is that humor reduces stress A. People who laughs enormously
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Andrea Dimofte Reaction Paper #3 Humor at Work I believe that success takes many different shapes and forms, depending on each individual and his goals. For some, success comes from wealth, for others, perhaps from family, while some may view success in terms of their jobs. I believe that we are all in search of happiness, yet that there is not set equation to achieve such happiness. If for example, a person obtains all his happiness from his job, then he may see himself as successful. I believe
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