*What comment does the visual make about the complex and shifting nature of the Human Condition? How does Leunig use visual techniques to convey his vision of existence? This cartoon by Michael Leunig describes part of the human condition as cyclical, alternating to and from halcyon days and despondent blues. His illustration, albeit simple provides a complex insight into his interpretation of existence. Its application of a succinct, uncluttered drawing style allows viewers to easily comprehend its symbols and metaphors.
| TipsProvide two tips for writing in each rhetorical mode. | Narration | To tell stories, to engage the emotions | Chronological order | Use time transition words and phrases use sensory details | Illustration | To demonstrate or support a point with evidence | Order of importance | Use a variety of phrases of illustration, for example, for instance, in particular, use strong evidence, make a compelling conclusion | Description | To immerse the audience in the content | Spatial order | Choose a vivid subject to describe, focus on the five senses, avoid empty descriptors | Classification | To break a big subject into smaller parts | Subcategories | Use at least 3 subcategories, use strong details, explanations, and examples, connect all your subcategories with the topic in your conclusion | Process analysis | To explain how to do something or how something works | Chronological sequence | Open with a discussion of the process and a thesis that states the outcome, use time transition phrases, have someone read it to be sure it makes sense | Definition | To define a term or idea | Thesis presents definition, body paragraph explain aspects of definition, conclusion reinforces thesis | Avoid defining simple terms, have a personal stake in the term, consider the term in a specific context | Comparison and contrast | To analyze 2 subjects through their differences and similarities
The Stranger by Albert Camus Motif: A recurring device, formula, or situation that often serves as a signal for the appearance of a character or event. It can also show the fundamental idea the author is trying to portray, or can be used to illuminate the story’s meaning. A motif helps give a story greater unity and in creating the mood and setting. Example: “There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled little wave that broke on the sand.
Ideas of discomfort during the unexperienced are shown in the didactic monologue through negative connotations. Polysyndeton has been used in stanza one, ‘men cursing and grumbling and running away and the
Every attempt to establish a familiar basis of identity creates only the sense of being lost — absolutely lost. Alice becomes, to the reader, a mistreated, misunderstood, wandering
Physical Journeys – Essay Plan Physical journeys define and shape our understanding of who we are, through not only an exploration of the world but our inner self. [Direct answer to question]. Responding to the numerous aspects of the journey demonstrated throughout texts, audiences are able acknowledge the worth of physical movement as it also catalyses change in intelligence, psyche or emotion. Peter Skrzynecki through his poems “Crossing the Red Sea” and “Immigrants at central station 1951” conveys the idea that the physical journey and the challenge of obstacles, enlighten the traveler in many aspects exceeding the physical realm. Similarly, Rob Reiner’s film Stand by Me(1986) and lyrics to Iggy Pop’s song The Passenger illustrate how embarking on physical journeys can extend mankind’s understanding on human condition.
The setting in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” subtly brings out additional meanings through symbolism, ultimately reveals Brown’s personality and values, and drastically shows a change in Brown throughout the journey. First of all, the symbols range from the names of the characters, to the very setting in which the majority of the plot takes place. While using these symbols Hawthorne gets his points across by more then just using plot or themes, but rather by taking his opinions to another level of literary elements by using setting. This story could be analyzed as literal, or one could look at this story in an allegorical way. The additional message that Hawthorne is trying to suggest, which the stranger explains, is that “evil is the nature of mankind” (Hawthorne 454).
The fifth and last paragraph restates the main thesis idea and reminds the reader of the three main supporting ideas that were developed. All of these paragraphs are important. The introductory paragraph is the place in which the writer introduces the reader to the topic. It is important to make this a clear and limited statement. This is where the writer grabs the reader's attention.
In the following paragraphs I will tell why this story captured my interest, describe an analytical approach and evaluate this work and the meaning of the story. This story using great detail with descriptive, imaginative wording brings the reader in and allows you to visualize what he is daydreaming. This is the type of writing that draws me in and allows me to imagine what is going on. This work is a good example of farce (a comedy; a short play, in which both subtle humor and hilarity are developed through improbable situations, exaggeration and (often) ridiculous antics) (Clugston, 2010). Selected to show how humor can be used imaginatively in a story to illustrate the need for communication in human relationships: Mitty’s immersion in extraordinary matters of his dream world blocks him from sensitivity to his wife’s ordinary life concerns- and from knowing whether her “making him” do things expresses true caring or just nagging (Clugston, 2010).
So too in the third stanza of “The Hollow men” are we confronted with a vision of a desiccated, hopeless landscape- “this is the dead land”. This disillusionment and questioning of the modern lifestyle, of Eliot's time, is also alluded to in the first stanza of the preludes, a poem whose entirety deals with the sordidness and decay of city life where “a lonely cab-horse steams and stamps”. Eliot’s 'The Waste Land’, deals with the idea of a lack of renewal, and death in each of his five parts. The distorted images of nature and the cycle of life that is portrayed conveys a lack of renewal both in the physical environment and spiritually