love is a fallacy(英语修辞与写作 lecture 6-1).pptVIP

Love Is a Fallacy By Max Shulman About the story Writing Style Max Shulman has a good style. The story goes forward at a fast pace with racy dialogues full of American colloquialism and slang. He employs a whole variety of writing techniques to make his story vivid. He use ultra learned terms to reveal the conceit of the narrator and clipped vulgar forms to illustrate Polly Espy’s limited intellectual capability. He also use figurative language profusely and inversion for emphasis. The speed of the narration is maintained by the use of short sentences, elliptical sentences and dashes throughout the story. The combination of all these help to make the story realistic, as one would expect a freshman to talk like that. Rhetorical devices in the story Inversion (Cool was I and logical. // Beautiful she was. Gracious she was. Intelligent she was not. ) Metaphor (My brain, that precision instrument, slipped into high gear.) Rhetorical question (What’s Polly to me, or me to Polly?) Simile (My brain was as powerful as a dynamo, as precise as a chemist’s scale, as penetrating as scalpel.) Hyperbole (It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.) Ellipsis (Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox.) Rhetorical devices in the story 7. Metonymy (She was, to be sure, a girl who excited the emotions. But I was not one to let my heart rule my head.) 8. Antithesis (It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make an ugly smart girl beautiful.) 9. Analogy (It was like digging a tunnel. At first, everything was work, sweat, and darkness. … But I persisted. I pounded and clawed and scraped, and finally I was rewarded. I saw a chink of light. And then the chink got bigger and the sun came pouring in and all was bright.) 10. Understatement (It must not be thought that I was without love for this girl.) Logical fallacies in the story Dicto Simpliciter Hasty generalization Post hoc Contradictory premises Ad Misericordiam (A