Exaggeration

Personally, I have always thought teachers were inspiring and enthusiastic people, recently I have learned not everyone agrees with this statement. Some believe teachers are extremely positive and overly peppy, others believe teachers are negative people that do not care about their students. I have also learned, a lot of these viewpoints come from the media by over exaggerating a teacher’s role or not giving them enough credit. Teachers in the media are portrayed differently than actual teachers. First, negative teachers in the media are normally portrayed as callous, strict and harsh people. For example, in the movie “The Breakfast Club” there is a principal named Principle Vernon. Vernon is portrayed as callous because he did not want to be in charge of detention on a Saturday. So, he gave the students an essay to write while he sat in his office. Vernon was strict because even though he left the students unattended, he still wanted them to be quiet and do their work without getting up at all. Lastly, Vernon was harsh because he argued with the students; he gave one boy over seven detentions in a row because he was being disrespectful. Instead of talking to the boy and working out a solution, Vernon continued to give him detentions (Hughes 1986). Although there are other negative ways teachers are portrayed in the media callous, strict and harsh are main ones. Next, teachers portrayed positively in the media. Although I do believe teachers are positive people and do…

The next artistic device is very closely related to physical exaggeration and directly interlinks with the first artistic device (McPhee 2011: 20). The process of alienating face or body by assigning animal or object features to the person the satire is aimed at, or overemphasizing size, weight, or qualities the person in particular is well known for (McPhee 2011: 20). The process of replacing parts of a person with animal elements, or the animal's characteristics and behaviors basically…

M.T Anderson uses this novel to show how current modern societal issues could expand and worsen. By writing this novel, M.T Anderson is giving an example of how the problem that are ignore or considered normal could turn into something that people now would see very big issues with. M.T Anderson has written this novel as a warning to the current society. The novel is saying that if people don’t start taking care and acknowledging the earth current stage of environmental health, that we will all…

The movie that is being critiqued is called Rush Hour. This will cover as many comedic devices that can be found. Some of the devices found were exaggeration, Obsession, Slapstick, contrast, transgression and language. It will also cover laughter needing an echo, the depending on comedy has an absence of feeling. Some examples of exaggeration in rush hour would be when he assumes Lee can’t speak English in their first meeting. It relates because of the way he raises his voice to the point…

The primary source is a visual document, a cartoon. Cartoons are unique because they can be subject to exaggerations and distortions, which lend meaning to the overall image. While the exaggerations and distortions make the cartoon appear less realistic, cartoons tend to portray a part of society in a negative or positive light. It is important to keep this in mind when analyzing a cartoon because anything that seems off, or weird can be an important detail that lends itself to the purpose of…

English Language and Comp. Q:1 Eudora Welty uses exaggerations and metaphors to validate the impressions left by her childhood experiences, on her recent fictional texts. She recalls stories of her time growing up in Jackson. The most influential moments she talked about revolved around her town librarian, “Mrs Callaway,” and her very own mother. When Welty wrote about her first encounters with literature, she states that it all began with reading the books in her local library. The most…

The over exaggeration of violence in games The over exaggeration of violence in video games by people has always been an issue in many forms for people across the many forms of media. The video game industry, new compared to other forms of media such as books or newspaper, has rapidly evolved into a media giant that, in a short span of time, has created very stylized forms of gameplay that often use violence. The main topics the public needs to understand with games and violence are that: the…

From Shakespeare to South Park, the exaggeration of humorous situations through satire invites the audience first to laugh, then to think. Rallying against everything from the bills on his desk to the wasps in their nest, Ogden Nash’s satirical and witty lampooning of middle American existence thrilled a nation. In my four poems, The Moose, Someone Needs A Vacation, Only A Stranger Could Love, and We Solve ‘Cos We Have To, I attempt to imitate what Anthony Burgess wrote, (in Nashian style…

Although a large part of Greenblatt’s argument has merit, he exaggerates the extent of witchcraft and the role that it plays in the play. One of the main points of his argument was that Shakespeare incorporated witchcraft into the play through a “nebulous infection”, or a bleeding of the secular into the demonic and vice versa. However, the power of the witches was not as pervasive as he describes. In other words, the witches’ power is very limited, which is reflected in their powers. Greenblatt…

The Weakness of Death “On Death, Without Exaggeration” by Wislawa Szymborska is an observation of Death by a third party. The speaker is discussing how little power Death has in a life. Many people feel that death is omnipotent and they have no power over this. The speaker is using evidence seen over many years to show the reader that Death is not an all powerful entity. Death is the same awkward truth in life just like it was when the world first began. Szymborska uses persona, personification,…