Using Imagery in Didactic Literature

The Zen Parables, Taoist Anecdotes, and Analects all teach us way to living a better life through Imagery told in stories.

These parables help us forget about the past and the knowledge we had in the past. it gives people a new life so they can start fresh without anyone knowing about their mistakes. Zen parables like the biblical parables, are also deceptively simple tales that contain profound truths. It is also a brief allegorical story that teaches a moral, or lesson about life.

The analects range from brief statements to more extended dialogues between Confucius and his students. The parables told people how to live a good life and how to live it to the fullest but with safety. Analects use the method of controlling all things in the world.

An anecdote is a brief and sometimes witty story that focuses on a single interesting incident or event, often in order to make a point or teach a moral lesson. Anecdotes use a single idea to figure out and help a big situation. with anecdotes everythings focuses on one main idea.

Paradox VS. Parallelism

Throughout this week in class all we talked about was Paradox and Parallelism. I learned many things about these two topics that i did not know before including how they are alike but also different. Many poems that we read in class contained both Paradoxes and Parallelism in many different ways. A Paradox is a pair of opposites that are simultaneously true while parallelism is the use of phrases, clauses, or sentences that are similar or complementary in structure or in meaning.
This proves that the two topics are alike because they both deal with opposites in poems. The two topics deal with connecting two things that are really different and making them alike somehow. There are three different kinds of Parallelism, they are structural, elaboration and also antithesis. All three of these can be in any poem, they are in just different parts of the poem to prove different points.
Some similarities between Paradox and Parallelism are that they both contain two truths. They both involve some kind of structure. And they both need pairs of things in order to be what they are. Some differences between Paradox and Parallelism are that Antithesis and Paradox contradict eachother when they are written in a poem. Also you need one to contradict the other. Paradox and Parallelism are two concepts with two different structures.