高级英语UnitOne.ppt

Structural analysis Part III: (paras. 5 – 7) (One of the most picturesque… lie beside them.) The coppersmith market and other markets sound and light smell varied characters harmonious Structural analysis Part IV: (paras: 8-9) (Perhaps the most unforgettable…) the mill where linseed oil is extracted the description of the mill Words describing sound Style TYPE of Writing: Description: A description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object, or scene.? Style a descriptive essay is generally developed through sensory details, or the impressions of one’s senses --- sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch. The writer generally chooses those that help to bring out the dominant characteristic or outstanding quality of the person or thing described. Writing Technique: 1. From Macro to Micro? 2. Words appealing to senses: light heat, sound movement, and smell colour and taste.? 3. nouns, adjectives and even adverbs used as verbs: thread, round, narrow, price, live, tower and dwarf. 4. words imitating sounds: onomatopoeia 5. stressful and impressive sentence structures: one of the peculiarities…, one of the most picturesque... Writing Technique: Rhetoric Onomatopoeia: words imitating the sounds associated with the thing concerned creak: (to make) the sound of a badly-oiled door when it opens When you move in a wooden bed, it creaks. The hinge of the door needs oiling, it creaks every time it is opened. squeak: (to make) a short very high but not loud sound the squeak of a mouse rumble: (to make) a deep continuous rolling sound The thunder / the big guns rumbled in the distance. I am hungry, my stomach is rumbling. Rhetoric grunt: (of certain animals, to make) short deep rough sounds in the throat, as if the nose were closed, such as the deep short sound characteristic of a hog, or a man making a similar sound expressing disagreement, boredom, irritation Rhetoric Rhetoric sigh: (to let out) a deep breath slowly and with a sound, usu. expressin