Hello, for this Learning journal you are required to write a 400 word journal answering the question below. Previously your team completed a learning journal for me on the same topic, and this second learning journal asks that we integrate reviews and ideas from the first journal within the answer for this journal. I will attach a document of the first learning journal which your team completed for me. I will also attach an example of a learning journal for this assignment, that will help you have an idea of how to set out my journal. Please note that this example covers a different topic to the topic for my learning journal.
The instructions are as follows:
Bennett and Royle argue that, far from having a merely “decorative” function, “figuration is fundamental to our world, to our lives” (“Figures and Tropes” 82).
Keeping this sentence in mind, explain two (2) tropes/figures of speech in ONE of the two stanzas below, and relate these lines to larger conceptual ideas of sexual difference or secrets.
*YOU MUST ONLY CHOOSE ONE PASSAGE TO REFLECT ON.
1. If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels, had been churches, and poor
men’s cottages princes palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions; I can easier
teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The
brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o’er a cold decree—such a hare is
madness the youth, to skip o’er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in
the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word ‘choose’! I may neither choose who I would,
nor refuse who I dislike, so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. Is it not
hard […] that I cannot choose, nor refuse none (7)?
2. I pray you think you question with the Jew.
You may as well go stand upon the beach
And bid the main flood bate his usual height;
You may as well use question with the wolf
chool of Humanities and Communication Arts Page 11 of 16 Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;
You may as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops and to make no noise
When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;
You may as well do anything most hard
As seek to soften that—than which what’s harder?—
His Jewish heart. Therefore I do beseech you
Make no more offers, use no farther means,
But with all brief and plain conveniency
Let me have judgement, and the Jew his will (69).
Note: as learning journals 1 & 2 overlap on the topic of Figures and Tropes, you are permitted to integrate a revised version of your learning journal 1 into learning journal 2. Do NOT simply cut and paste your learning journal 1 into your response to learning journal 2. Rather, apply the concept of figures and tropes to one of the passages above The response should comprise one essay of 400 words (not two essays of 200 words).
Please do not exceed the word limit of 400. Also, please ensure you answer the question carefully using only ONE of the passages provided. Only one reference is required which is; An Introduction to literature, criticism and theory – Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle.
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