Hyperbole

Hoof Print I have been around horses ever since I can remember because my mom loves horses. I took lessons every week to become a better rider with my horse, “Poe.” Carol, my new instructor (appositive), told me to try to not use stirrups when riding him. We started off walking around the ring without any stirrups, which was easy, so she told me to pick up a trot and move faster. I did that, but what happened was the stirrups ended up bumping Poe in the side, which made him think that I was…

The most common denominations are no longer injured, but rather they are paralyzed. The participation in church has declined. Churches are managing, but things seem to be plummeting. Is American Christianity dying? Sources have been conveyed in a hyperbole. This is an indication that the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Christians is dropping. This information is not completely a bad thing. The article conveys that if a large number vocalizes that they are Christians, than a…

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” This quote by André Gide clearly shows that in order to discover we have to take that leap of faith. Most of us in this room have had events in our lives where we had to look further than what we have in the front of us. We have made discoveries that have transformed our way of seeing things. A catalyst for us to discover ourselves and new worlds, to grow as a person creatively, spiritually, emotionally,…

Fight Club is an exhilarating thriller directed by David Fincher (Se7en, Gone Girl). This movie was considered one of the most controversial of the year due to its “Fight the System” attitude. The narrator is a nameless, white-collared employee of a law firm who is plagued by insomnia and depression. He medicates his depression through consumerism, a frequent and steady acquisition of “things”. “I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person”, he asks…

I have graded myself an 8 on the AP rubric. I have graded myself this numerical score because I constructed a sound thesis: “The author utilizes a parody and logical fallacies- portrayed as logos- to satirize how products are marketed to consumers.” Following my thesis, I directly analyzed how the author used these two devices to mock product advertisement. It is evident that I attempted to tie the examples given in both paragraphs to my central thesis statement in order to describe a trend in…

After softening up his audience by describing fates worse than death and not finding any warranting death, Vonnegut further disproves the idea that honor is worth more than life by pointing out the fallacy of anthropocentric thinking that ignores the beauty of life around us. The power of nuclear bombs was fully realized in 1945 when the Americans dropped two bombs on Heroshima and Nagasaki killing more than 100,000 people. The awesome power of this weaponry created wide spread fear and the…

Vocabulary Diction: Toni Morrison mostly uses concrete diction rather than abstract diction. She shows the reader a concrete image instead of telling, or leaving anything up to the imagination.
“He reached through brambles lined with blood-drawing thorns thick as knives that cut through his shirt sleeves and trousers” (Morrison 160). Rhetoric: John Howard Griffin’s friend, P.D. East, is a journalist who writes about improving race relations and segregation. He uses rhetoric to argue his points.…

respectable in the eyes of their peers. These certain people are abusing the Catholic faith and are using institutionalized religion to cover up their malicious side-acts. A clear use of a hyperbole is seen as old Roscio says, ‘…eaten half a salma’s worth of wheat in the form of Communion wafers.’ The hyperbole of ‘half a salma’s worth of wheat’ is used to display how often these people used organized Catholicism to keep their dirty acts covert. Seeing these people is what causes old Roscio to…

Stupid Sweetness Preston and I have an interesting relationship. We could not be more different, but we also could not be more similar(paradox). He is more outgoing and loud, I am more quiet; he says his opinions and doesn’t care what others think, I am more reserved and like to please people. In contrast, we both act so stupid when we’re together, both have the same humor, and both have the best time together. One big moment does not define our relationship; instead, many different and special…

who gave her life to be perfect, and Beyoncé’s song, “Pretty Hurts” was about a girl who finally accepted herself. Both of the scenarios of these poems portrayed the same message, but ended with different outcomes. Uses of analogies, metaphors, hyperboles, and imagery really help the readers and listeners emotionally connect with both these…