新视野(New Horizon College English)大学英语(第二册) Unit-5-B.pdfVIP

Unit FiveUnit Five Section B Stop Spoiling Your Children 因原PPT文件格式较大无法上传，特转换为PDF，有需要PPT格式的请下载后留言索取 （有些盗版我资料的是无法提供的，注意） Reading Skills Text B Exercises Test Yourself For Fun Understanding Figurative Language Reading SkillsReading Skills INTRODUCTION To make language clearer, more interesting, and more striking, all of us use expressions which are not literally true. We make comparisons in speaking and writing. Figurative language— language that compares—paints a picture for the reader. Figurative language can be confusing if it is understood literally. The ability to recognize and interpret or explain figurative language may help us fully understand a writer’s point. Look at the following examples taken from Reading Passage A: 1. For what, I sometimes wonder; so that she can struggle to breathe through most of her life feeling half her strength, and then die of self-poisoning, as her grandfather did? (Para. 7) 2. There is a quotation from a battered women’s shelter that I especially like: “Peace on earth begins at home.” (Para. 8) 3. Smoking is a form of self-battering that also batters those who must sit by, occasionally joke or complain, and helplessly watch. (Para. 8) Here in all three examples, smoking is compared to a form of self-poisoning and self-destroying, thus making the evil effects of smoking cigarettes more alarming. There are many different ways of using figurative language. Listed here are just a few of them: a) Similes (明喻, 直喻), figurative expressions which directly compare one thing to another by using the words as or like. b) Metaphors (暗喻), in which comparisons are only implied, without using as, like and the like