Sean Thornton Suspension

In an article create by bleacherreport.com on December 14, 2013, details surrounding the suspension of professional hockey player Sean Thornton are released to the public. Thornton, a player for the NHL's Boston Bruins, is suspended for fifteen games after punching Pittsburgh Penguins defensemen Brooks Orpik. After being punched, Orpik left the arena on a stretcher. An analogy is drawn when the author of the article relates this suspension to another lengthy suspension received by Chris Simon of the New York Islanders. Definition is used when the author is drawing a comparison between  the definition of assault, both off and on the ice. A hyperbole is created when the author sarcastically states that Brooks Orpik has temples "being massaged angels." At the end of the article, another analogy is drawn when the author relates the NHL to the Lord of the Flies.   

"And the Games Went On"

In an article created by Sports Illustrated entitled "And the Games Went On," the impact of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the National Football League are compared. On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot and killed while parading through Texas in  procession. Kennedy's killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, was eventually arrested; he was killed two days later by a Texas civilian. America was thrown into confusion and mistrust. Leadership was blurred and citizens were left in utter disbelief. However, the National Football League supplied the sole sense of remote normality. At the beginning of the article, a football fight is described through the eyes of one of the players. He stated how one of the players had the head "swollen like a pumpkin," signifying a clear hyperbole. Another hyperbole is drawn when the author compares the ground of the football field to the bloodied floor of a slaughterhouse. In an analogy, the author compares the assassination to two other events, including the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attacks on the Twin Towers. 

New York Train Derails

According to a report from CNN.com published on December 1, 2013, a train derailment has caused four deaths and close to seventy injuries; eleven passengers suffer from serious injuries. The train, containing eight interconnected cars, had seven cars travel off of the rail. Consonance is used many times during the article, but it is unintentional. When reflecting on the crash, one of the interviewed persons used "whoosh" as a description; this is an onomatopoeia. At one point in the article, the authors use an elliptical when stating how many of the cars were derailed in comparison to the number of cars in the actual train. Lastly, the authors make an analogy to compare this accident to another derailment that happened in July, in which there were no injuries. Another analogy is drawn to an crash between two train cars that happened last May in Connecticut.