高级英语写作2.pptVIP

高级英语写作Advanced English Writing;Part one Diction;I. Levels of Words; There is nothing new in the recognition, within a given language, of a distinction between common usuage and uses of the language for more restricted purposes and often enough, perhaps characteristically, more elevated purposes. The monolithic nature of English is not questioned when literary essayists like Emerson contrast poetry and common speech. The latter is recognized in American to be the proper subject for the investigation of linguists who, however, now show some incipient inclination to investigate poetry, too, and other noncasual utterances in a given language. --C. F. Voegelin; When I was a kid, and reading every science fiction book in the local library, I used to wonder exactly how the future would happen. By that I dont mean what the future would be like--science fiction books seemed to agree, for example, that in the future there would be no money--all transactions would be made via identity cards and centralized computers. But that seemed dubious to me: how, I wondered, are you going to get everybody to give up money in the first place? ---Michael Rogers; You have your tension. Sometimes you come close to having an accident, that upsets you. You just escape maybe by a hair or so. Sometimes maybe you get a disgruntled passenger on there, and starts a big argument. Traffic. You have someone who cuts you off or stops in front of the bus. Theres a lot of tension behind that. You got to watch all the time. Youre watchin the drivers, youre watchin other cars. Most of the time you have to drive for the other drivers, to avoid hitting them. So you take the tension home with you. ---Studus Terkel; ;II. The Meaning of Words;Same denotation but different connotations;Examples:;Part Two: Elementary Rules of Usage;Two-part sentences of whi