In the New Yorker cartoon the rock stands for "stability". In the dictionary stability means: the state or quality of being stable; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a constitution. Also listed were synonyms of stability, which were balance, composure, proportion, steadiness, and symmetry. I think that a rock is an easy metaphor for stability because a rock possesses the quality of not easily being changed or moved. If there is a large rock, a mountain for example, and I look at that rock every day there is not going to be any change in that rock from day to day. I could even extend that period and come back to the mountain once a year, or even every ten years and the physical characteristics of that mountain are not going to change, save for the rare chance of a large natural disaster. A rock is very stable and does not go through the processes of change.
The tree is the metaphor for growth and change and this also translates very easily. Trees are constantly in a state of change due to natural causes. In the winter many trees lose all of their leaves and appear very bare and open. When the season begins to change to spring, the trees begin to blossom or "spring into full bloom". During the summer the tress are generally full of green leaves and bear fruit. In the fall the leaves begin to change colors and fall off of the limbs. This whole process seems very similar to the "four mythoi" diagram from Northrup Frye. In the winter is irony and it seems ironic that beautiful green trees would be bare and leafless and not as beautiful in the winter. In the spring is a comedy and I can relate that to happiness and new comings. The new blossoms are waiting to come out and it is a time of joy. Here in the United States more babies are born in the summer than any other time of year. Most fruit-bearing trees also bear fruit in the summer, this seems to be no coincidence that Frye would put romance in the summer because there is nothing more romantic than the fruits of love.
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In this short paragraph, I only want to concentrate one thing-- --Emerson's trope on infants. ... In my opinion, this trope exponds emerson's pointview of self-reliance perfectly. When we think about the trope more and more, we will come realize the things that we never noticed before. ... Therefore, in my eyes, though emerson wrote the essay nearly 2 hundreds years before, but it still gained many real meaning to our modern life: that is trust yourself and dropped all your consistency and conformity. just as emerson said in the end of "self-reliance":Nothing can bring you peace b...
Anthony can all be characterized as effective pieces of rhetoric, for they illustrate the ideal usage of as rhetorical appeals and tropes. ... No, sir, she has none" (History 2). ... Tropes, specific types of figures of speech, are employed precisely by each orator to match their speech and their goals. Henry's speech exemplifies a cornucopia of tropes including, metaphors, rhetorical questions, and anaphora. ... Finally, the last major trope used by Henry is anaphora, or the repetition of a phrase at the beginning of end of a sentence. ...
A trope refers to a general and consistent pattern found in media, literature and any other form of storytelling. We discussed the difference and the similarities between a trope and an archetype in class. In this essay, I investigate a trope that I am interested in and give an explanation by giving a few examples. Since I am a golfer, I tried to find a trope of golf on TVTropes.org. I immediately found a few tropes about golf. ...
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Many other works went on to appropriate figures such as the Chaste Southern Belle (Little Sister in Birth of a Nation) who was, as a result of reconstruction policies, endangered by the trope of the dangerous black male sexual body She was often child-like, innocent and observant of her place in society , in accordance with the cult of true womanhood. ... With these tropes being thrust in ront of audiences and subsequently repeated in other, later works, audiences came to expect the black to be either a malcontent, dangerous individual or a loyally subservient "mammy" figure. ...
Bush's speech both ethos and pathos appeals, as well as rhetorical tropes and schemes can be found on several occasions. ... Bush's speech to the Nation was rhetorical tropes and schemes. ... His well organized combination of ethos and pathos appeals and rhetorical tropes and schemes work ...
." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life." (2) One can see why the tradition of reading Emerson's nature writing and environmental aesthetics in sharp contrast with Henry David Thoreau's--Thoreau viewed as "Emerson's ea...