An Essay On Euphemism

When we are still children, running around the playground with our friends, our goals in life and what we want to be when we grow up are much different than later in life. We want to me mermaids, princesses, astronauts. When we get older though our values change. Instead of going after what our heart really wants to do, we go after the jobs that offer the biggest paycheck. Our culture’s minds have been warped and bent towards the desire to have a bigger house, a cooler car, and fancier clothes. We put what we think is right in our minds over what we truly love to do deep down in our hearts. The novel Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, is about a sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who has been given his death sentence. He reconnects with his former student and current sports journalist, Mitch Albom, to try to remold his mind like soft clay to resist the pull of money and fame that today’s society provides. In this story, the author uses descriptive language, figurative language, and repetition for effect, to capture the theme that money will never

An example of a popular word in the cosmetology discourse community that has been re-defined is the term “baking”. Baking in this community has nothing to do with dessert, instead it refers to a makeup technique where you place a loose powder on top of concealer to set the product, and prevent creasing. Baking, setting, and shading, are just a few examples of language that have different meaning in this discourse community. I can recall a time when I was babysitting I was getting ready to go somewhere so I brought all of the things I needed to get ready like my clothes, and makeup.

Many different forms of figurative language I used throughout the story to exhilarate the irony. The opening description of Ethan is full of ironic expressions. Figurative language is also used to the describe reactions to events in the story. The author is very descriptive in this short story. The use of figurative language aids in description of events, the setting, mood, and characters’ appearance and response. Edith Wharton, the author, use of literary devices allows the story to come alive and to also require the reader to think deeply about the true meanings.

In the book excerpt by Firoozeh Dumas, “The F-Word”, Dumas uses several techniques to hook her readers and keep their interest in her piece. It was her style, however, that did most of the work. Dumas' article has a very strong single argument that she works toward throughout her entire piece. She claims that the English language could do with a bit more “spice”, as she calls it (Dumas). Though this argument is only listed only twice in the excerpt, it is the underlying foundation of every humorous story as well as every painful moment. Throughout the excerpt, Dumas has paired together the use of her style with how she builds ethos in the reader's eyes. This creates a very good way to convey the argument, however it still lacks certain strengths. Had she written in a slightly more formal tone and included more evidence, she could have kept her humor and continued to build on her ethos by appealing to a more professional group. The use of an easy going conversational style in Dumas' excerpt helps to portray her claim in a way that most readers will be able to identify with, however, the style does not work well in appealing to a professional setting due to the lack of empirical evidence.

The Joker was once seen as a comical criminal who committed ridiculously silly crimes, such as spreading laughing gas throughout Gotham City. However, after the reinvention of Batman, The Joker was transformed into a grave and terrorizing character. Continuing the course of the new personality given to The Joker, writer Alan Moore and artist Brian Bolland created a graphic novel called The Killing Joke, “a much more complex, darker, and ultimately, frightening story” (Wooldridge) which tells one of the origins of The Joker since The Joker himself is unsure of his true inception. However, this particular graphic novel “isn’t about how the Joker came to be, it’s an examination of

Lucas, K., & Fyke, J. P. (2014). Euphemisms and ethics: A language-centered analysis of Penn State's Sexual Abuse Scandal. Journal of Business Ethics, 122(4), 551-569. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-013-1777-0

jargon- words that are specific to a certain group or profession. For example, in The Harry

Studies show that there the word gullible written on the ceiling above. In the article, The Onion, the writer talks about how people are gullible and fall for commercials. In the article the author used certain rhetoric devices that other commercials would use to make their product to seem legit. Barry, who wrote a mock press release that was published by The Onion claims that people who fall for ridicules commercials are fools by using ethos, imagery, and pathos.

In the world of an ever increasing consumer market and the subsequent decline of in depth research, marketing companies like "The Onion" are using many rhetorical devices to lure consumers to their products. MagnaSoles is a generic product that seems extraordinary thanks to the amazing rhetoric used. The rhetorical devices being used endows the product with word play and quotes that are appealing to humans. This strategy works in advertisement. "The Onion" exceeded their goal of using satire to add humor to the product press release by also using stereotypes, irony, and hyperboles.

A metonymy is "the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant"(Google). An example of a metonymy would be like, "The White House declared we are at war with the aliens." The White House is a metonymy for the president since the president is the one who decides if we're going to war or not. In the beginning of TKAM, Jem described Boo Radley as, "Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained—if you ate an animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten…". This description of Boo is a metonymical illusion of a monster like Bigfoot or

A common language: jargon is common to many business. It is a convenient short hand form of communication, but is also effect behaviour. Disney employees are “cast crew” while McDonalds employee are “crew Members”.

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MagnaSoles Marketing advertisers always have a specific group of people in which they target their product towards. They use certain strategies designed to appeal to these target groups. In the article from “The Onion,” the writer uses irony and sarcasm in order to criticize the gullibleness of consumers in marketing along with advertisers and their scheming strategies. First, one of the primary rhetorical strategies the author uses is irony.

The book The Fault In Our Stars by John Green is about a teenage girl named Hazel who has had a type of lung cancer since she was thirteen years old. Hazel had always felt pain throughout her life, weather it was emotional or physical pain because of her cancer, or losing important things to her. After Hazel met Augustus though, her thoughts about life began to change. In this book, the author used a lot of figurative language and some symbolism to show the reader exactly how the Hazel and other characters were feeling, so the reader could almost feel what the character was feeling.

It is a figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. We can come across examples of metonymy both from literature and in everyday life. Metonymy is the use of something closely related to the thing actually meant (Perrine, 1977:67). It can be considered that metonymy is the substitution of a word naming an object for another word closely associated