David's Real Goliath

Names and Naming,  Anadiplosis,  Rhetorical Question 

The bird, Providence, flew down to the rescue, only to realize he'd come too late.  He heard the cry from David, the doe, as she lamented in her last breath of life "Why am I so foolish?", and then she was gone.

 Just moments before, Providence had been flying over the sea when she'd spotted a crew of sailors heading toward the cliff.  On the cliff stood David, Providence's friend since birth.  Even as a child, Providence had kept a close eye on David, who had always been courageous as she'd been forced to stand up for herself at an early age.  At an early age her parents had been killed by the Goliath's of the forest- the hunters in whom existed no mercy.  No mercy indeed, for David herself had been terribly injured as she stood up to them being left alone, completely blinded in one eye.

It was for this reason that David was at the cliff that evening with her good eye on the lookout for those Goliath's of the forests; and facing toward the sea, consequently, her blinded eye.  Little did she know, her lack of caution toward the sea, a beauty she'd thought of as being so harmless and pure, would be her doom.  All her life she'd stood up to the Goliath's of the forest, only to realize too late the more treacherous fate was that of the sea- to which she'd kept a blind eye.     

The Safety of the Sea

Group 8

Possible/Impossible, Antimetabole/Chiasmus, Litotes

“I am so foolish!” cried the doe, blind in one eye, who was near the edge of a cliff for the sake of safety. “How could I take such precaution against the land, only to discover that this seashore, to which I had come for safety, was more perilous.” The one-eyed doe had previously only seen hunters on land, so she did not find encountering hunters from the sea possible, but she is disappointed when the sailors capitalize on her disadvantage. The sailors who took careful aim to the doe, and fatally wounded her are not considered hunters, but these hunters are considered sailors.