文学高级英语第一册

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Language points
? Gothic: of a style of building (church, roof, window, arch) in Western Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries, with pointed arches, arched roofs, tall thin pillars, and stained glass windows; of or in an 18th-century style of literature which described romantic adventures in mysterious or frightening settings
? Judging from the 1st para. Which type of description does the text fall into, objective or impressionistic? What is your dominant impression of the baza her parents.
– The street faded into a country road with straggling (spread in an irregular manner) houses by it.
– Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold, youth is wild, and Age is tame.
? How many styles of writing have you practiced in your writing course up to now? What style of writing can this text be categorized into?
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Some introduction to descriptive writing:
the text we can see it is a long, narrow,
dark street of workshops and shops
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? which extends as far as the eye can see:
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The Overall Structure
? Part One (p1): description of what can be seen and heard outside the entrance to the bazaar
? Part Two (the rest of ps): lively description of different sections of the bazaar, including stores and workshops.
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Tips
? Establish a dominant impression or outstanding quality
? Select details: relevant; specific; vivid/minute
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? Though small, the street possesses a medley of colors which suggest the richness of life. The houses lining it are painted red, yellow, grey and white. Girls wear skirts, the colors of which you can never imagine. Vegetables and fruits on a peddler's stand appear in jade green, watery yellow and rosy purple. They shine under the sun in a way that dazzles your eyes.
? … His gaunt, expressive face was dominated by piercing eyes, conveying a mixture of intensity and repose, of wariness and calm self- confidence… He moved gracefully and with dignity, filling a room not by his physical dominance but by his air of controlled tension, steely discipline, and self-control, as if he were a coiled spring.
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Part 1
? Questions on comprehension:
? How is the description in 1st para. Organized?
? What sense of readers does the author particularly appeal to?
Unit 1 of Advanced English
The Middle Eastern Bazaar
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Prereading questions:
? What is a bazaar? Have you ever seen one before?
? What are handicraft economy, industrialized economy, new economy, knowledge economy? What kind of economy is the bazaar in the text related to?
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? Impressionistic description is very different. Focusing upon the mood or feeling the object evokes in the observer, rather than upon the object as it exists in itself, Impressionism does not seek to inform but to arouse emotion. It attempts to make us feel more than to make us see.
square with cavern
? 2) glare: strong, fierce, unpleasant light, not so agreeable and welcome as right sunlight
? 3) cavern here does not really mean a
cave or an underground chamber. From
? Use specific and vivid language
? Employ figures of speech
– She danced and sang happily like a lark. (as slippery as an eel; as poor as a church mouse, etc)
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? Arrange the description in proper order: straightforward spatial order; specific elements → general or vice versa; the least striking feature → the most; appearance → personality
? Objective description attempts to report accurately the appearance of the object as a thing in itself, independent of the observer 's perception of it or feelings about it, the purpose of which is to inform a reader who has not been able to see with his own eyes.
? The words ear and eye are used in the singular not to mean the concrete organ of sight or hearing but something abstract; they are often used figuratively. Here the eye means man's Power of seeing or eyesight. e. g.
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Detailed study of the text
? Questions on the overall structure: ? How many parts would you like to
divide the text into? What are the main ideas of each part? ? In what order is the descriptive organized?
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Classification of Descriptive Writing
? according to the contents: D. of person; of place; of object; scene
? according to the ways of presentation: objective D; impressionistic D
? Definition
? Verbal picturing of a person, place, object, scene, idea etc, that is ,painting a picture in words. A good description creates a sensory experience with the use of words. First the author pictures an experience in his mind. Then he selects specific details to communicate that impression. Through reading this detailed description, readers in turn create a similar picture in their minds.
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? You pass from the heat and glare of a big open square into a cool, dark cavern...:
? 1) Here he heat is contrasted with cool, “glare” with dark, and open
? 1 ) She has an eye for beauty. (She is capable of recognizing and appreciating beautiful things. )
? 2) She has an ear for music. (She is sensitive to music.)