The Style of Hemingway’s Writing in A Farewell to Arms.pptVIP

The Style of Hemingway’s Writing in A Farewell to Arms Group 3 郜子雁 蒋方圆 杨秋璇 杨集 1. Hemingway’s Simplicity The style: simple, terse, but silently implying everything a Statistical Work Part of Speech Number Examples noun 160 summer, troops, rain, cholera verb 69 looked, were, covered adjective qualitive adj. simple adj. 37 dry, bare, gray, muddy, wet luxuriant adj. 3 successful, permanent bare-branched inflectional adj. 7 his, their, this From Chapter 1, Book 1 1.1 Diction Word Class: More nouns and verbs Less adjectives, especially luxuriant ones Vocabularies: a large number of military terms simple, daily colloquial words foreign words (Italian and French words) military terms: military rank: sergeant, lieutenant, major, general military unit: platoon, company, battalion, regiment brigade, division Simple, daily colloquial words Don’t let her die. Oh, God, please don’t let her die. I’ll do anything for you if you won’t let her die. Please, please, please, dear God, Don’t let her die. Dear God, Don’t let her die. Please, please, please don’t let her die. God please make her not die. I’ll do anything you say if you don’t let her die. You took the baby but don’t let her die. That was all right but don’t let her die. Please, please, dear God, don’t let her die. (from chapter 41, book 5) For the audience are mostly Americans, Hemingway tries to use the foreign words to create the picturesque atmosphere of far-off lands and evoke readers an immersed sense of being in Italy. Foreign words Italian words: Ciaou: hello Capitano: captain Mamamia: my mother French words: Choucroute: sauercraut 泡洋白菜丝 Croyant: believing 1.2 The Use of Punctuation Mark The irregular absence of comma “Maybe she would pretend that I was her boy that was killed and we would go in the front door and the porter would take off his cap and I would stop at the