Alice in Wonderland爱丽丝漫游奇境记.ppt

About the author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson(查尔斯·路特维奇·道奇森) (?27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his?pen name,?Lewis Carroll(刘易斯·卡罗尔)?,was an English writer,?mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon(英国国教的执事）and photographer. His most famous writings are?Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland?and its sequel?Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems “The Hunting of the Snark” and “Jabberwocky”, all examples of the genre of?literary nonsense（荒唐文学）. 2.Rhetorical devices Personification: In this novel, a lot of peculiar, anthropomorphic（赋予人性的） creatures presented in the fantasy world, such as the talking rabbit, the smoking caterpillar（毛毛虫）, the dancing lobsters（龙虾） and the like. Undoubtedly, the use of personification make all these animals create a world filled with curiousness and naivety（纯真）. * ------Lewis Carroll ---June He is noted for his facility at?word play, logic, and fantasy, and there are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life. Alice‘s Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym（笔名） Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. 1.Descriptive modification First of all, a lot of descriptive modification have been included in the story, such as “a white rabbit with pink eyes”, “in a languid（倦怠的）, sleepy voice” and so on, which make the novel more concrete and visual. For example, in chapter 1, “Down the Rabbit-Hole”, in the midst of shrinking（收缩）, Alice worries about what final size she will end up as, perhaps “going out altogether, like a candle”; this pondering reflects the concept of a limit. In chapter 7, Alice ponders what it means when the changing of seats around the circular table places them bac