Showing Rhetorical Devices

This is a print ad for teenagers who listen to music while they are walking on the sidewalk. They use this advertisement to show that teenagers can end up in this position, if they continue to pursue this action. This hyperbole creates emphasis for the safety of teenagers and anyone else who listens to music on their way home.

These two M&M characters have been used for M&M candy for as long as anyone has really remembered. They show the personification of the product that is actually being endorsed. They show a playful and joyous character for the product, which makes potential customers want to buy it.

In this advertisement for cranberry juice, two men are saying that the cranberry juice, which is up to their knees, is 100% natural. Then one of them pours a cup of sugar into the juice which proves that it is not full natural. This picture shows an example of irony because it says one thing, but in the end it appears to be the opposite.

Clothing brands use anaphors to help express their clothing designs, makes it more popular. The repetitive pattern helps us remember the brand names especially in the usual font that it is presented in. Anaphors are useful for instilling messages in our heads.

Harry Potter

A favourite book of mine as a young person was the magical series of Harry Potter. I remember when my third grade teacher showed us the first instalment of the series called The Philosopher’s Stone. The world that Harry lived in was a place filled with wizards, witches and spells and potions. The real hook in that book was imagining what it would be like to live in a world like the wizard world and to go to a school like Hogwarts. Eventually it went to a point that I was not enjoying the books anymore, I had lost the thrill of fantasy novels. Now I seemed to have changed the types of novels that I prefer to read, more in-depth, serious novels catch my eye.

Children's Fantasy books

When I was younger I still liked to read, and my favourite type of novels were fantasy novels. I like reading fantasy books because they give me with a different point of view on the world. I like to think about it using the analogy to the world that you may live in but you will never be able to understand if you do not move outside and look at it from a new perspective. You can see a great deal of small details in fantasy books that you may be able to miss in your everyday life just because they are not gaining enough of your attention. Fantasy is about the world we would like to see, a dream we want to pursue. Where would we be at if we didn't dream?

Reasons to like Reading

Another good thing about reading is that no one can decide what you want to see in the novels. The characters, places and events come and annex your mind with the literary content. Then when novels turn into movies, our imagination changes, since it was not what we first thought. Directors take out certain chapters and events that were important in our minds. They do that to fit the timeslot of the movie since novels are usually longer than scripts. Our characters that we thought of are changed to a different looking person, usually, and the settings are not what they first seemed. The film that was made was the directors’ vision and his or her imagination that took place and when we read it’s our own.

what my passion is

I just started blogging on account of my English teacher, who wants to try this new idea of blogging for English, hoping it would improve students’ writing skills. I’m hoping that it would help my writing, because creativity is not something that comes easily to me. Since I’m not the most imaginative person, I like to read, since it’s a way for me to think creativity without actually making a whole new idea. In books, I can imagine how all the settings and characters look. Even though the authors tend to give descriptions of both, I usually think of descriptions as a guideline. If I like the descriptions of the characters and settings, then that is how I think of it, but sometimes I would disagree with it.

Why I blog?

Honestly, if it was not for my English class this year, I would have never had the thought to even look at a blog, yet alone write one. I have never heard of blogging sites such as bloggers.com or even realized how easy it is to make one. Writing about my passion seemed like it would be almost impossible to write about every week. Now I see that blogging does have its advantages, which includes improving writing conventions and helping students like me with creative writing. Essays or anything that involves creative thinking into English always was not an easy task for me. Writing excessively on the internet, knowing that people will look at my blogs, is almost shocking me into writing a decent writing piece or blog. For the time being, the reason for me to blog is for hopes of improving my English skills, and not just because my teacher is grading this.

How Songs can Change

“Already Gone” by Kelly Clarkson had a vaguely similar beat to the song “Halo” by Beyonce. When I heard Kelly Clarkson’s song “Already Gone” I thought it was “Halo” because the introduction is the same instrumental. My reasoning for Kelly Clarkson remaking the instrumental for her new song is because the person who wrote the music for “Already Gone” gave the same music to Beyonce a few months back. The Hollywood music businesses sometimes do not pay attention to the closeness of songs like this. Maybe Kelly just thought that her lyrics did fit the song nicer.
In my opinion I thought that Kelly Clarkson’s lyrics fit the song better than Beyonce’s. I think what it comes down to is which story the artist is telling and if you can relate to it. ‘Already Gone’ is a song more people can relate to and feel. Kelly sings from her heart so her pain seems real like she’s “been there, felt like that.” That’s always been Kelly from the beginning, full of heart and soul. Beyonce just simply gets into “character” when she sings. Her song made sense, but it did not seem like it actually came from her, from her feelings and experiences. Artists have a better time connecting with their fans if they sing about lyrics that are easily relatable.