Trope

Afather confronts his son’s teacher about labeling his son a ‘slow learner” without understanding his son’s previous way of life. Robert Lake uses appeal to logos, pathos, ethos, rhetorical tropes, and schemes to argue that his son is not a slow leaner but a culturally different child. The audience addressed by the Indian father is specifically one person, the teacher. This can be seen due to the start of the essay with “Dear teacher,” which tells the reader it is a letter written to and for the teacher of his son. In Robert Lake’s, “An Indian Father’s Plea,” the father also talks about incorporating his son’s heritage into the curriculum which might interest a secondary audience, the board of the education system. Robert Lake uses appeal to logos: inductive reasoning, to compare his son’s education thus far to that of other children in western society. The Indian father tells the teacher of his son’s experiences leading up to…

had an uncanny relationship with LGBTQIA+ characters, from making them our “Gay Best Friend,” to being the “Beard” for them, and it seems that now we’re full on slaughtering them. Across space, through the years, in every genre imaginable, gays have toppled everywhere. As in, with the recent trending of boycotting #BuryYourGays, the pattern of denying queer characters their happy ending has become prevalent and more obvious in television culture. “#BuryYourGays” is television’s most prevailing,…

What is a literary trope? According to literarydevices.net, a trope is “a figure of speech through which speakers or writers intend to express the meanings of words differently than their literary meanings”. In The Princess and The Frog, a commonly found trope would be “an uptight woman loving a wild man”, referring to the relationship between Tiana and Prince Naveen. Journeying through the bayou with the most unlikely animal friends, Tiana and Prince Naveen are forced to work together, despite…

displays the liberal trope of individual liberty, as the desegregation movement was a liberal approach to giving minorities the freedoms that are naturally endowed to them by God. The liberal argument stands that because segregation is inherently bad, and the Civil Rights Act had officially outlawed discriminatory behavior, African Americans deserve the right to attend any educational institution of their choosing without racial interference. By contributing to the liberal desegregation…

Trope are used in everyday life. The essays I read were “Don’t Eat Before Reading This”, by Anthony Bourdain, “Men Explain Things to Me”, by Rebecca Solnit, “The Tale Telling Days Are Over”, by Ian Frazier, “From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself”, by Marlon James. Many people use it for others to understand their feelings in one way or another. Trope has typically five different expressions they use throughout their essays. Trope is any unit of figurative language such as simile, metaphor,…

different genres that are intermitted with other genres. This film text is primarily about a Superhero but it adds progressive Spy tropes and Science Fiction to this original comic book character, Black Panther. What makes this film so uniquely awesome is that it has inspired the Black culture to be recognized and black women to be empowered. In prior history, Black superheroes were not given admiration as the usual American cathedral of heroes such as Captain America. In this…

Your heart pounds in your chest as you run through the dark woods, trying your best to make it to your car or just to safety. You can feel him gaining on you, the sound of crunching leaves signaling his every move, but your legs just aren’t fast enough. You stumble over a conveniently placed log and fall to the hard ground. The tension builds, the unseen orchestra using more strings. Someone in the theater’s audience screams for you to get up and run. Out of breath, you try to scramble away only…

Religion is an idea. The idea of religion is a construct of ideas, that form the basis of morals, and brings a community together. Religion has always been a way to explain what humanity hasn’t been able to explain through logical reasoning. The modern definition in Merriam-Webster dictionary is defined as, “the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.” (Merriam-Webster, 2015) But, is that what religion really stands for? One of the most common…

3.3. The Third Trope: The Autobiographical A theory of literary journalism has to go beyond the surface news stories and to conduct in-depth exploration of real lives through the unique combination of history, novel, and autobiography. It delves deeply into further issues than a standard news story could, and endows the stories with a form that appropriated tools and techniques previously confined to fiction. By so doing, literary journalism challenges the traditional journalistic convention…

contemporary literature seems to break away from them, creating much more room for a diversity of lesbian characters and identities. Not only are the stereotypes very common in lesbian literature, the subgenre also deals with many clichés. Among these clichés the most commonly used are the unfulfilled relationship or the tragic ending. In the novels incorporating this cliché it ends with one of the two women dying, committing suicide or one of the women leaving their partner behind to end up…