Oxymoron

The ad I choose for my discussion is a tv commercial which aired during the 2010 Super Bowl. The reason I picked this commercial is because of it's great sense of humor and it's ability to utilize several concepts Julia B. Corbett discusses in her article, "A Faint Green Sell: Advertising and the Natural World" (235). In the opening scene we see a young white male purchasing groceries and is asked whether he would like paper or plastic. After a sudden pause, he decides to go with plastic, when…

I’m extremely ambivalent about that statement due to my belief that everything in life is all about perspective. James Deacon stated that “What you see depends not only on what you look at, but also on what angle you are looking from”. So in this case it’s a multitude of angles we can explore when peering into the issues of alcoholism and tobacco use. To illustrate on one hand, I agree that alcoholism and tobacco use is a social problem as society pays a high price for incidences related to both…

indicating his life did not commence until he found his true love. Dissimilarly, Wright describes the intercourse in a passionate manner, as the narrator describes the conception of a child with the women and man’s reproductive cells. Wright includes oxymoron in the comparison of woman to man, the sperm and egg being “the maker and the made”, needed in order to make a child. Wright incorporates the metaphor “intricate and folded rose” to describe the reproductive organ of a woman, and its…

In “Oxymoron in The Great Gatsby”, Peter L. Hays acknowledges many oxymoron’s and paradoxes in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Hays does this by recognizing several “soft spots” in this novel exhibiting that a certain passage can often be voided out through…

accumulated into his book and his poems. He died with an unpublished 725 page work of art and numerous poems about his wife of 45 years, nature and the culture he was so immensely proud of. “East of Daybreak” is a historical fiction, which is an oxymoron, yes but the historical part is about the “real American Indian cultural heritage and issues…

The most evident theme of this poem is unrequited love. Brooks uses simple diction to communicate the natural elements of love, "To touch things with a lighter hand." This quote expresses that one who experiences the joys of love is so lost in their love that they do not have a firm grasp of reality. "In yourself you stretch," those who encounter love become more of themselves. They get to know parts of themselves that were unknown before, they gain characteristics from their lover and add it…

Romeo and Juliet. Young lovers, or just young teenagers full of lust? That is the question most readers are asking. Juliet is 13 years old, while Romeo is about 19 years old. With this information present, does Romeo love Juliet or just lust her body and her beauty? Juliet was a beautiful young lady, no doubt. But given the fact that she’s only 13, she most likely doesn’t know what love is and just lusts Romeo for his looks and his sweet talk. Romeo is a Montague while Juliet is a Capulet. Their…

saying the children touched or poked the back of the woman’s neck the narrator substituted the word “dipped”. This is effective because it shows the children are not trying to be rude, they are just curious. A third structural device used is oxymoron. Oxymoron is used in the thirteenth line of the poem. This is used when the children are described as being “wrapped in silence and fear” through “motherlove”. The two clashing ideas of fear and love show that the mother might have had good…

very patriotic man. Yet, while reading it, we get an impression that cummings doesn’t agree with him. That impression is accomplished by the use of other devices. Firstly, in lines 9-13 he uses simile to compare the soldiers to lions, as well as oxymoron “happy dead” which the reader can recognize as absurd and therefore realize that the author disagrees with the speaker. Furthermore the line 12 shows his criticism of men thoughtlessly going to death for their country and the line 13 is a…

fourth sentence, "Her fell for an 18 year old girl with one of those deep-down spooky loves that made him so sad and happy he shot her just to keep that feeling going", the reader is informed that there's an affair going on. The sentence is also an oxymoron since he was "so sad and happy" at the same time, two things that contradict each other,…