Assignment Instructions/ Description
1.Determine the main theme of the essay entitled “Macho” by Perri Klass
2.Choose 1 short story or poem from the list below that you think deals with a similar theme. Be creative when figuring out shared themes—there may be some interesting ones that are not immediately obvious because of the difference in forms.
3.Discuss the rhetorical techniques—voicing, tone, imagery, symbolism, rhetorical appeals, etc.—that the authors of the two works use. Do they use similar rhetorical techniques?
4.How do the rhetorical techniques used and the form (essay, short fiction, or poetry) seem to affect the way the theme is addressed?
LIST OF SHORT STORY AND POEM
1.What You Pawn I Will Redeem noon by SHERMAN ALEXIE
2.Janus ANN BEATTIE
3.The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin
4.Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
5.Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6.The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
7.Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston
8.The Gardener by Rudyard Kipling
9.The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe
10.Harlem” by Langston Hughes
11.Ozymadias by Percy Shelley
12.The Times They Are A-Changin’” by Bob Dylan
13.The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
14.Uphill" by Christina Rossetti (Williams).
This essay should be 300-450 words and MLA format.
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