Personification:
"The pending admission of China into the WTO has the US motion picture industry salivating."
This passage is designed to make the US motion picture industry look like a starving human who would do almost anything, without regard to anyone else, to have its appetite quenched.
Overstatement:
"Zhang Hui Jun of the prestigious Beijing Film Academy fears that he US invasion will induce Chinese producers to slavishly follow, Hollywood's formulas at the expense of innovative Chinese productions."
By using the word "slavishly," the author makes an overstatement to emphasize her point that, in the situation mentioned, the Chinese producers would probably be limited in their course of action.
Analogy:
"Canadians live next door to the world's biggest candy store."
The author is simply creating an analogy that compares America's massive entertainment industry to a candy store.
Friday, July 10, 2009
2-b Global Monoculture
2009-07-10T10:32:00-06:00
Andrew Payne
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