高级英语1何兆熊_unit1.ppt

Section 4: Text Appreciation Repetition also occurs within paragraphs, for example, Paragraph 3. Except for the first sentence of this paragraph, all the rest of the sentences begin with the word “someday”, emphasizing that sloppy people indeed have a high moral standard and ambitious plans, only these plans are not to be realized soon. Section 4: Text Appreciation 3. Repetition is often achieved by the use of parallelism. A lot of sentences are written in parallel structure. Find them out. 1) (Paragraph 3) Someday they will go through their wardrobes…Someday sloppy people will make family scrapbooks…Someday they will file everything…Someday they will sit down… Section 4: Text Appreciation 2) (Paragraph 4) …the books spill from the shelves onto the floor, the clothes pile up in the hamper and closet, the family mementos accumulate in every drawer, […] and the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling. 3) (Paragraph 5) Not a paper will go unturned; not a rubber band will go unboxed. Section 4: Text Appreciation 4) (Paragraph 12) After they’ve finished with the pantry, the medicine cabinet, and the attic, they will throw out the red geranium (too many leaves), sell the dog (too many fleas), and send the children off to boarding school (too many scuff-marks on the hardwood floors). Section 4: Text Appreciation 4. Hyperbole is also employed in this text. Find out the sentences of hyperbole and tell what rhetorical effect they achieve. The author exaggerates the impracticality of sloppy people and relentlessness of neat people by hyperbole: 1) Sloppy people carry in their mind’s eye a heavenly vision, a precise plan that is so stupendous, so perfect, it can’t be achieved in this world or the next. Section 4: Text Appreciation 2) They save everything, planning someday to file, order, and straighten out the world. 3) …the unread magazines threaten to reach the ceiling. 4) Neat people have the paper all wadded up and in the trash by 7:05 A.M. Section 5: Consolidati