aroseforemily写作技巧英文版武汉大学[整理文档] .pdfVIP

WRITING SKILLS of A Rose for Emily 1. Story Structure Part I: Emilys death; She pays no taxes. Part II: The strange smelling of Emilys house; Emilys father passed away Part III: Love with Homer; Emily buy poison Part IV: The Emilys old age; Emilys death Part V: Emilys funeral; People found the corpse（尸体） 2. Figurative language Simile （明喻） ? Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough. Personification （拟人） ? But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emilys house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps-an eyesore among eyesores. 3.Narrative techniques重点部分 Suspense （悬念） I think the writing skill the author use most is “suspense at”the, beginning of the novel there are several questions we cannot get through , e.g. why the whole town went to her funeral ? What the “fallen monument’represent for ? Why the women were full of curiosity to the inside of her house ? What exactly was in Emily s” house ? With so many questions we have to deal with , we are full of interests and curiosity to read the following text and find the answers. And at the other parts of the text , there are suspenses as well ,e.g. why the house of noble Emily send out bad smell ? Is the arsenic( 砒霜 ) really for mice ？ Symbol It seems that a teem is going to give us a detail explanation .Here we just give a brief introduction. The text have an unique title —“A Rose for Emily”,butthe true flower —rose does not appear from the beginning to the end .This is a symbol. I think the have severe symbols, e.g.“rose ”