文学英语赏析13单元内容提要.docx

1、文学英语赏析13单元内容提要文学英语赏析1-3单元内容提要文学英语赏析 2010-05-06 08:53:50 阅读166 评论0 字号：大中小订阅第一单元内容提要Structure Unit 1 Introduction Unit 2 The Language of Literature Unit 3 Short Stories Unit 4 Novels Unit 5 Non-Fiction Unit 6 Poetry Unit 7 Drama Unit 8 RevisionUnit ObjectivesTo introduce you to the course.To help you

2、overcome any doubts or worries you may have about thecourse. To persuade you that literature has a value for your own life.To show that literature and other ways of using language are closely connected.课程学习目的及学习方法Why do we read literary text?Use texts from English literature to help you improve your

3、 command of English language- draw upon the rich resources of literary texts to learn language.Literature is language - but language used in the most aesthetically conscious way. It is a mine of language for us to exploit. Literature is also the vehicle for cultural information and for knowledge abo

4、ut the world.Literature touches our lives as people. It helps our own development as mature people. We not only acquire more language in the process but we also acquire a better understanding of ourselves and how we relate to othersStudy tips1. Read a lot.2. Try to use your dictionary with discretio

5、n.3. Listen a lot.4. Keep a personal learning journal. to jot down problems or questions; to write about your own feelings of success or difficulty; to make a note of vocabulary or grammatical structures; to write down quotations from the texts you read; to record useful websites; to write down idea

6、s for your own writing.5. Form the habit of formulating questions.Do I agree with this?Is this like something I have experienced myself?Why has the writer used this particular word?相当聪明的苍蝇解读The Fairly Intelligent FlyA large spider in an old house built a beautiful web in which to catch flies. Every

7、time a fly landed on the web and was entangled in it the spider devoured him, so that when another fly came along he would think the web was a safe and quiet place in which to rest. One day a fairly intelligent fly buzzed around above the web so long before alighting that the spider appeared and sai

8、d, Come on down. But the fly was too clever for him and said, I never light where I dont see other flies and I dont see any other flies in your house. So he flew away until he came to a place where there were a great many other flies. He was about to settle down among them when a bee buzzed up and s

9、aid, Hold it, stupid, thats flypaper. All those flies are trapped. Dont be silly, said the fly, theyre dancing. So he settled down and became stuck to the flypaper with all the other flies.Moral: There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.TasksT1. The writer uses the word devoured. Why do yo

10、u think he preferred this word to any of the following equivalents? ate, consumed, gobbled up , swallowed.FEEDBACKAte is a very general word, so it is not precise enough. Consumed is also not really appropriate; it does not suggest the physical act of eating.Swallowed is physical but it does not sug

11、gest a violent form of eating. Gobbled up would be possible. It indicates greed and voracious hunger. But best of all is devoured, which has connotations of greed, of monsters tearing bodies apart, of rapaciousness, of eating something completely.T2. Look at the word entangled. Can you find three wo

12、rds the writer uses to mean roughly the same thing?FEEDBACKtrapped; catch; stuck.T3. The writer uses the word landed. How many other words does the writer use to convey roughly the same meaning? FEEDBACKalighting; light; settle down; (and possibly rest.)削皮刀解读A Paring KnifePlot summaryIn the first pa

13、ragraph: The narrator tells us about a day when he found a small knife, used for peeling vegetables, under his refrigerator. He wonders why it is there.In the second paragraph, he goes back into the more distant past and remembers the events which led up to the knife getting under the refrigerator.I

14、n the third paragraph, we return to the present. He shows the knife to the woman and asks her if she recalls the incident from paragraph two but his wife just slid the knife back under the fridge.Whats the message of the story?Least said, soonest mended.Let sleeping dogs lie.修辞手法与日常生活Figures of spee

15、chAlliteration(押头韵)The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close together in a text.eg. sweet smellAssonance (半韵)The repetition of a particular vowel sound in words close to each other in a text.eg. The best for less.Proverbs and sayingsnow or never机不可失，失不再来clear as crystal水晶般的轻莹safe and sound安然无恙live and learn活到老，学到老Time and tide waits for no man.岁月不待人。 Feast today, fast tomorrow. Stuff today, starve