For example, rather than simply saying that Rip is “lazy,” or that he “hates work,” Irving states that Rip has “an insuperable aversion to all kinds of profitable labor.” Now that you have read the story, go back and find two more examples of Irving’s use of inflated diction. Write the sentence as it is in the story, and then rephrase each example in common language. (8 points) Example #1: Translation: Example #2:
The Running Man- Judging a Book By It’s Cover is Dangerous: ‘…if it is so difficult to really see these simple creatures, then how much harder is it to see a man. When looking at a silk worm periodically we may see a silk worm as a egg, a grub, a moth or a cocoon. Which is the real silkworm? The same applies with man where we see them in one setting, without know their past or the circumstances that have lead them to this instance in time, we may judge them on a thin slice of their lives. By saying this, Tom Leyton challenges Joseph to look beyond what is obvious when judging The Running Man.
Miner refers to dentists as holy mouth men and bathrooms as shrines for odd ritual practices. His language is clearly satirical and creates the notion of the "Nacirema" as vain and self obsessed. Also, they seem to be a masochistic society built around willingly subjecting themselves to pain and torture. The “Nacirema” knowingly allow “medicine men” and “holy-mouth-men” to perform debilitating painful procedures to prevent the unavoidable decay of their mouths and bodies. Miner makes subtle comedic reference to the classic stereotype of doctors having atrocious handwriting when he writes, "write them down in an ancient and secret language."
Noble also showed me through the article how smart Shakespeare was by using comedy in “Titus Andronicus” right before some most violent scenes, so the audience would not get discomfort or turn off by seeing their normal practices being depicted on stage My favorite part of Noble’s essay is how he breaks down the parallel between Titus and Oswald Caroll recipe for human flesh. It let me, as a reader; understand how much research Shakespeare must have gone through to make sure his play matched up with medicinal cannibalism views. The explicit language of how cannibals cooked the human flesh and believed that eating humans could be therapeutic was very intriguing. Through reading this essay I have gained a greater appreciation for Shakespeare writing and “Titus Andronicus” as a play. Noble truly opened my eyes to a new world I never knew existed, medicinal cannibalism.
The language becomes more sexual as references to the body, such as the lips, increase. This more aggressive language illustrates the physical realities of life that overcome the significance of dreams. Mercutio’s language also becomes more misogynistic with references to “foul sluttish hairs,” (1.4.90) maids that, “lie on their backs,” (1.4.92) and “women of good carriage” (1.4.94). His use of such subversive language works well to bring to light the darker side of humanity and to prove his point that dreams are simply the products of people’s fleshy desires. Additionally, the transition in language allows the audience to see Mercutio as more than a jokester.
One of the ways this is illustrated through is in the second stanza he describes her as being ‘slapped up’. The onomatopoeic phrase suggests men’s sarcastic prejudice view on women as sexual objects; it also emphasizes the challenges the girl is facing in men’s attitudes toward her. Larkin also humiliates the girl by describing the obscene disfigurement to the image of her ‘huge tits... A tuberous cock and balls’. The taboo language helps to demonstrate more than just adolescent immaturity but deliberate and repeated attempts to degrade her by a kind of visual rape. However one could also argue that Larkin seems to justify violence against women by suggesting that access to women is something men have been unfairly deprived of.
After he’s done praising the festival, Wallace reveals that his main intention of writing the essay was to question if killing animals is morally acceptable. He explains that Lobsters have nociceptors, invertebrate versions of the prostaglandins and major neurotransmitters that enable human beings to record pain. Lobsters, however, do not appear to be able to absorb natural opioids like endorphins and enkephalins which are what advanced nervous systems use to deal with pain. Wallace examines this information about lobsters and recognizes that lobster either suffer more than a human would because they can’t control pain as well as humans can or they simply can’t comprehend the idea of pain. Wallace sympathizes that if lobsters can’t control their pain, then humans are unnecessarily boiling and eating them, as a result, putting them through immense suffering that humans wouldn’t want to experience themselves.
According to Sendaris, people do not want to hear “I’ll be right back” because it is “code for ‘Go fuck yourself’.” Sendaris adds satiric humor by stating “I should be used to the way Americans dress when travelling, yet still it manages to amaze me. It’s as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, and then suddenly threw down his sponge saying ‘Fuck this. I’m going to Los Angeles!’” He also pokes at Hitler by commenting how weird it was to hear “the name in the same sentence as the word ‘courtesy’. I imagined a man picking up the receiver, his voice made soft by surprise and the possibility of bad news ‘Yes. Hello, this is Adolf Hitler.’” As many people know, Hitler formed the Nazi culture and sparked the Holocaust that destroyed millions of lives.
We gotta stop tryna keep a nigga on lock wit da pussy. Come on, pussy mo out of style than high top fades. Ladies its just a known fact that we can't do da same things niggas do. Pussy get wore out!!! And if u want ur husband to have any pleasure, limit the number of dicks that go up in ya!!
The oral prose gives insight to the Portland, Oregon audience of the sexual myths regarding Asian men. In a satirical form, he is able to juxtapose the perspectives of women from different nations vying for the Asian man’s phallus, who Sia proclaims in an over-the-top manner, is “hung like horses”. By expressing his masculinity in this form of artful activism, he plays on the irony of this reversal and intentionally attacks the men of other races for their lack of proportion. His pathos is further established in the film when Sia is interviewed at his hotel room; abstract pictures of himself and his future family are the first indicator of deep roots that hegemonic masculinity has planted into the poet. Sia explains that all of his self-portraits are of him looking “white” and continues on