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Author --Henry Louis Mencken
(1880--1956) American educator, author, critic
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ຫໍສະໝຸດ Baiduenry Louis Mencken
His life born and spent most of his life in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. German immigrant parents completed high school; graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute at 16 a reporter, drama critic and editor
Many figures of speech to create dreadful images, to reinforce his verbal attack: hyperbole, sarcasm, ridicule, irony, metaphors, similes.
A piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description
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His works
The American Language 1918 Prejudices 1919--1927 Happy days Newspaper Days 1940--1943 autobiography Heathen Days 25 Books and thousands of articles
2. for the purpose of revealing a person’s personality and character (A clean tidy room: to show the occupant is an orderly person)
3. for the purpose of creating a feeling or mood (The howling of a chilly wind) (The falling of autumn leaves): the feeling of depression
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Description
Description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object and scene.
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Description
It conveys the sensations, emotions and impressions. The writer describes what he sees, hears, smells, feels or tastes, and it often includes his emotional reactions.
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Henry Louis Mencken
leading scholar in the field of language
monumental book The American Language:
outstanding work of philology(语言学, 文献 学)
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Stylistic Features
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The description of an object
The strongest words possible--dreadfully hideous, abominable, agonizing ugliness, revolting monstrousness, leprous hill, and so on.
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Stylistic Features
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Description
The description of a person The description of a place The description of an object The description of a scene
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The description of a person
Lesson Seven
-- H.L. Mencken
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Aims
1. To acquaint students with subjective
description writing.
2. To help students to understand the
author’s real intention behind the description.
1. a person's appearance 2. what the person does, says,
how he behaves to others to reveal his character
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The description of a place
1. for the purpose of describing it (on a visit to famous scenic places)
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Henry Louis Mencken
central figure in American intellectual life during the 1920's.
highly respected for literary criticism
powerful influence on American literature.
Bombastic(夸大的) style and acid language Not just the ugliness of Westmoreland,
but the whole American race--a race that loves ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable; a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
Author --Henry Louis Mencken
(1880--1956) American educator, author, critic
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ຫໍສະໝຸດ Baiduenry Louis Mencken
His life born and spent most of his life in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. German immigrant parents completed high school; graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute at 16 a reporter, drama critic and editor
Many figures of speech to create dreadful images, to reinforce his verbal attack: hyperbole, sarcasm, ridicule, irony, metaphors, similes.
A piece of subjective, impressionistic or emotional description
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His works
The American Language 1918 Prejudices 1919--1927 Happy days Newspaper Days 1940--1943 autobiography Heathen Days 25 Books and thousands of articles
2. for the purpose of revealing a person’s personality and character (A clean tidy room: to show the occupant is an orderly person)
3. for the purpose of creating a feeling or mood (The howling of a chilly wind) (The falling of autumn leaves): the feeling of depression
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Description
Description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object and scene.
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Description
It conveys the sensations, emotions and impressions. The writer describes what he sees, hears, smells, feels or tastes, and it often includes his emotional reactions.
7
Henry Louis Mencken
leading scholar in the field of language
monumental book The American Language:
outstanding work of philology(语言学, 文献 学)
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Stylistic Features
15
The description of an object
The strongest words possible--dreadfully hideous, abominable, agonizing ugliness, revolting monstrousness, leprous hill, and so on.
9
Stylistic Features
12
Description
The description of a person The description of a place The description of an object The description of a scene
13
The description of a person
Lesson Seven
-- H.L. Mencken
1
Aims
1. To acquaint students with subjective
description writing.
2. To help students to understand the
author’s real intention behind the description.
1. a person's appearance 2. what the person does, says,
how he behaves to others to reveal his character
14
The description of a place
1. for the purpose of describing it (on a visit to famous scenic places)
5
Henry Louis Mencken
central figure in American intellectual life during the 1920's.
highly respected for literary criticism
powerful influence on American literature.
Bombastic(夸大的) style and acid language Not just the ugliness of Westmoreland,
but the whole American race--a race that loves ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable; a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.