February 21, 2018

On this day we had the treat of watching a short scene of a great movie named Independence Day. While watching this movie we had to pick out some literary devices we noticed in the film. The scene that we analyzed was the famous scene where ¨president Whitmore¨ was giving a speech to the so-called army that was scrapped together by just about anyone they could find. During his speech, the president used multiple different literary devices which helped deliver the epic and dramatic effect that he was looking for. The main literary devices that I found while listening to his speech was alliteration. I find this literary device to be the most useful because when you give a speech people tend to doze off or let their mind wander. When using alliteration even if you forgot there was a speech going on you would recognize the repetition and it would almost automatically bring your attention back to the speaker. After we discussed literary devices we took a sentence out of the speech and change it to be more specific and add more detail to it. ¨united we stand but separate we will fall.¨ this was the sentence we took out of the speech. After our short discussion, we decided to make some changes and we came up with this as our new sentence ¨united, mankind will live, but separated our world will be destroyed by the aliens.¨ We added more detail to the sentence to make it sound better for the occasion.