Euphemism

In Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" he uses various comedic devices to create comedy; most noticeably melodrama and farce. These devices are used excessively in order to repeatedly address serious matters in a light-hearted manner; Wilde does this to create humour as opposed to offending his audience. Wilde deliberately wrote the play in this manner as he was fully conscious that his audience consisted of upper class Victorians. Throughout the play, Oscar Wilde articulately…

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” This line, from H. Jackson Brown, Jr. is the perfect representation of what love should be: a mutual feeling that makes the lovers feel the need to make the other person happy in sacrifice for their own. In The Great Gatsby, this is exactly what happens with Jay Gatsby. However the feelings are not reciprocated by Daisy Buchanan, his lover, or at least not to same extent. In the realistic fiction, The Great Gatsby, by F…

Think Like a Freak by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner SOAPstone When economist Steven D. Levitt and journalist Stephen J. Dubner published Freakonomics, many asked the authors, how do they think like this? How can one think like this? In response, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner wrote Think Like a Freak, a how-to guide on extreme outside of the box thinking. By asking obvious questions, thinking like a child, and many other strange behaviors that can only be explained with the…

The public education system in the United States of America serves as a modem for preparing our youth to enter the complex adult world. Schools ensure the advancement of all students regardless of race, sex, or social class. Not one child is ever “left behind” in our schools. With all the standardized exams and tests administered to students, we can make sure that everyone is on the same path for success. However, no matter how much emphasis we put into education we still see students failing…

Orwell uses rhetorical devices in more than 30 places in this short story, such as: alliteration, semi homophones, similes, metaphors, euphemisms, hyperbole, repetition, parallelism, satire, symbolism and so on. These rhetorical devices played different roles in mobilizing the reader emotionally, so that author can more effectively shows his inner contradiction when he shoots the elephant…

Ernest Hemingway uses symbolism in “Hills Like White Elephants’’ to illustrate the difficulties a couple is facing in making an important decison about their lives. Jig, the girl, is pregnant and her boyfriend, called the American, wants her to have an abortion. Each symbol represents the two ways the couple can go and their struggle to make a decision with which both parties will be happy. The most obvious symbol in this story are the white hills which, according to Jig, look like white…

The United States Correctional System is part of the criminal justice system which focuses in supervising offending offenders under the authority of probation or parole agencies and those incarcerated in state or federal prisons or local jails. Throughout the years, the prison system has revolutionized from focusing on custody to rehabilitation, and then shifting into crime control. In today’s prison system, correction facilities have emphasized the importance of incarceration by focusing on…

Face is a term that explains a person’s image. Goffman tells us that we all live in a world that is full of social interactions (Goffman, 1967). Face is the positive and social value a person claims himself by the line others assume he has during a particular interaction. Through this people can worry about the future, know what feels good, bad, and so on (Goffman, 1967). Language ideologies are sets of ideas and values of why people speak and what it means (some examples, why is your accent…

He then outwardly states he sees Garcia Lorca (also a closet gay) by the watermelons, which I find to be a euphemism for a woman’s breasts. The fact that Ginsberg doesn’t understand what he’s doing there correlates to his own questioning of whether he should do the same and hide the truth. Then when Walt Whitman is introduced, a plethora of sexual innuendos can…

“tail” could be a euphemism. Herodotus describes the hippopotamus and crocodile as denizens of Egypt (Histories, Book 2.68-71) and they appear together in a ceiling panel of the Ramesseum (REF) as opponents of the pharaoh. Behemoth and Leviathan may merge literal and mythic interpretations and exist on the edge (“liminal”) somewhere between natural observable reality and supernatural realities. If so, they may represent the undefinable realms of chaos on both land (Behemoth) and sea (Leviathan).…