This is an extract taken from DA leader Mmusi Maimane when he delivered his state of the nation debate speech, entitled “Planet Zuma, Somewhere in a galaxy far, far away”. The diction is formal. This speech portrays Planet Zuma has being a place where everything is perfect. A plethora of audiences are being targeted by this text. The audience base ranges from political party members, South African citizens, general online readers and the South African government members in particular. By and large the intention of this text is to expose the miserable side and ignorance that occurs in Planet Zuma. Such revelations are usually swept underneath the carpet. The speaker’s tone is blunt, direct and ironic, hence this leaves no apprehension as to what is the speaker’s position. Not everyone will agree with this text and some may have objections towards this perspective. In this essay the writer will also discuss several literacy devices. This scenario is very paradoxical or ironical. The government and president Zuma are failing to produce the finest results regardless of their best efforts. By ignoring the problem does not fix it hence, the title “Planet Zuma…...” When addressing the people of South Africa, a president must always have the people best interest in mind if a president is to …show more content…
These words are also double sensory words that link with the reader’s subconscious and triggers sensory areas of the brain. The use of adjectives like “all”, “empty” and “out of touch”. This adds interest and colour to a sentence in the text. The words “all children”, the adjective is “all” and this emphasizes that millions of children are affected because they don’t not have access to basic education. This brings a sense of sadness to the
How he writes makes you think that he’s just telling you a story about his experiences. Through this Swiller effectively convinces his audience that the center idea is that life is unfair. Josh Swiller employs the rhetorical strategies of pathos and logos at the outset to effectively grab the reader’s attention. Through his use of emotion in the book effectively draws the readers into the story of life in Mununga, Zambia as a deaf person. One example Swiller use of pathos can be shown about the school board, and how they do nothing for these deaf kids,
Their website describes the journal as “a must for college and university libraries and teachers of literature”. The purpose of this article is to show readers that although it seems apparent what Bambara wants her readers to glean from her story, Cartwright proposes might just be an underlying theme. His hope is that by examining the text he can prove that the conflict is not the differences between the rich and the poor; on the contrary, the conflict is the sometimes present resistance to learning even at the detriment of the student. Cartwright states, “the dramatic question that powers the story, that moves it forward, is whether Miss
Trough unfocused content about Amish reading strategies, Fishman fails to convey that children of all lifestyles grow up reading the world. The essay itself is difficult to summarize because of the way Fishman jumps between focuses. Starting her essay at a dinner scene with an Amish family, Fishman discusses many signs she picks up at this scene related to the way
and yet still, it has become prevalent to relinquish ones desire to be educated so one may conform to the habits of the culture around them. The corruption of mankind is the concept that being intelligent makes you arrogant and off-putting when in reality, becoming literate and informed can open more doors and present more opportunities than every before! In Gerald Graff’s, “Disliking Books”, Graff describes his academic and intellectual upcoming through his experience from literature in school. Despite his environment and the culture around him, Graff found clarity in class discussion and fascination in literature.
Plus the loss of the grammatical unifier. It is all too much” ( Dunn 76). Dunn not only tries to convey the reader of the importance of language, but how fun it can be as well. By writing in the book in letters one can read and see how the characters in the book struggle to write and how this affects them greatly for the frustration they have is expressed in their letters. The letters through the book show lack of their use of proper language and how it affected them
Therefore, it is difficult for most people to obtain an education because they cannot afford to attend the required educational institutions. According to NY Times, “Brazil passed a law to eradicate open dumps and integrate the catadores into the recycling industry. Yet the catadores are still an underclass.” Zumbi, a worker at the dump, takes advantage of what little education the dump can bring him. Working there since he was nine, Zumbi collects every book that he finds at the landfill.
New Literacy Studies and Critical Literacy bare a lot in common. New Literacy Studies explores how literacy has evolved from an autonomous practice, or “school-based concepts of literacy…held as a standard definition” towards the perspective of being grounded and operated in social practice (p. 17). Moreover, New Literacy Studies examines how literacy might not be a package set for all students but rather constructed in social interactions and environments. Critical Literacy takes this view further, emphasizing the importance of literacy to social activism and power. Based on the work of Pablo Feire, Critical Literacy stems from the idea that “literacy education should be concerned with raising the…critical consciousness of learners” (p.34).
These articles, magazines or newspapers do not help the reader become wealthier, politically known, or a better person. The author believes that reading irrelevantly
In the essay “Superman and Me”, the author, Sherman Alexie recalls the time he first learned to read. He talks about his Indian culture and the perception of people like himself. He also discusses his childhood and the outcome of learning to read. The reoccurring theme of the essay is the love of reading. The author used various literacy devices to express the feelings of empowerment, happiness and the necessity that came with learning to read.
!. The connotative language Fitzgerald uses to contrast West Egg and East Egg are two different communities. Fitzgerald uses the reputations to be references to the Eastern and Western United States. These connotations also represents different ideas of morality. The West represents more traditional family values and the East a more sophisticated lifestyle.
The novel also makes a unyielding point about the dangers of consumerism, emphasizing how creativity and individualism can be reduced by allowing the government and media to think for them. Perhaps the most important feature of the book is that readers understand the value of imagination and cultural heritage. These points would not be understood or accepted by readers if the novel failed to follow narrative structure, which is undeniably the most important aspect of any literary
Within his short story, Chickamauga, Bierce is able to depict a realistic version of war and the devastation it creates through the application of imagery in his writing. The author administers imagery, which the literary diction defines as the use of “figurative language to represent objects, actions, and ideas in such a way that it appeals to our physical sense,” (LiteraryDevice Editors) in order to visually represent the gruesome reality of the culture at the time. More precisely, the ghastly illustration of the soldiers, behavior of the child, and comparisons of mankind to animalistic forms, add to the detail of the story and solidifies Bierce’s assertion that war is not glory, but destruction. In representing the story in such a way, Bierce illustrates how even the most innocent of creatures can enact cruelty by representing the little boy as the embodiment of both childish curiosity and ignorance.
In the passage “What is poverty?”, the author Jo Goodwin Parker, describes a variety of things that she considers to portray the poverty in which she lives in. She seems to do this through her use of first-person point of view to deliver a view of poverty created by a focused use of rhetorical questions, metaphors, imagery, and repetition to fill her audience with a sense of empathy towards the poor. The author’s use of first person point of view creates the effect of knowing exactly what she is feeling. “The baby and I suffered on. I have to decide every day if I can bear to put my cracked hands into the cold water and strong soap.”
Research has shown that reading can trigger an emotional response in the human brain. The author also describes how certain words can make the
The layout shows the reader the development of literacy theories from Early Theories and Models Applicable to Reading through the 21st century. It was interesting to see some of the theories overlapping each other and some of the theories were developed upon by other scholars. For example, the Schema Theory was developed further by Louise Rosenblatt’s Transactional Theory. Background of Authors