高级英语（第三版）第一册第一课 face to face with hurricane camille_精品.pptVIP

Rake its way: metaphor, meaning to attack and devastate as it moved along. Rake: n. v.t 耙; 仔细寻找 It’s your turn to rake the garden. Rampage: v. rush about in a wild or violent way, causing damage and destruction. 横冲直撞 Rampaging floods: violent, raging floods. Hundreds of youths rampaged through the towns, smashing shop windows and overturning cars. 译： 我今天晚些时候把树叶扫起来。 警察们搜遍了小山坡但没有发现逃犯。 他试图用剑保护他的商店不受到横冲直撞的暴民的破坏。 犯人们横冲直撞，见什么砸什么。 I’ll rake the leaves up later today. The police raked the hillside but did not find the escaped prisoners. He used a sword to try to defend his shop from a rampaging mob. The prisoners went on the rampage destroying everything in their ways. Summary of the writing style Diction level: Concrete, specific words are used, esp. one-syllable verbs are used to quicken the speed of the action. Few adjectives and adverbs to quicken the rhythm Various shades of words are used to avoid repetition, e.g: disintegrate/ break apart/demolish/devastate Sentence level: Elliptical and short simple sentences (Para7—27). --Increase the tempo and speed of the actions being described. Hence in a dramatic narration they serve to heighten tension and help create a sense of danger and urgency. Textual level: Building up and sustaining the suspense by describing in detail and vividly the incidents with the sequence of happenings Discussion : (Ex. XIII) in class Problems in sentence writing 1) The run-on sentence 2) The sentence fragment 3) The dangling modifier 4) The illogical or faulty parallelism 5) The shift in point of view Run-on sentences A run-on sentence is two or more complete thoughts (or independent clauses) that are run together without adequate sign given to mark the break between them. Some run-on sentences have no punctuation at all to mark the break between the thoughts: I am going to school, if I dont get there on time, I will be late, my teacher will punish me, I will h