Unit 2 How Reading Changed My Life.ppt

Part 4 Detailed Reading: Language Focus Paraphrase: When literary critics discussed the problem of reading, they sometimes showed the terrible attitude that reading was a right that only belonged to the elite, not to be shared with other people. If we say some people have certain exclusive rights, it means these rights are exclusive to these people, not shared with anybody else. Part 4 Detailed Reading: Language Focus This was always couched in terms of taste, but it tasted, smelled unmistakably like snobbery. taste: n. (here) the ability to judge if sth is good or bad in things like art, lit