高级英语lesson6marktwain

高级英语lesson6marktwain

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

高级英语lesson6

T h e m irro r o f A m e ric a

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

☆appreciation “Mirror”here means a person who gives a true representation or description of the country. It reflects or reveals the truth of something or somebody.

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

This excerpt is a brief introduction of Mark twain. His adventurous, patriotic, romantic and humorous characteristics are known by most people. Before becoming a writer, he had done various kinds of jobs which greatly enriched his writings. However, the bitterness of his life, especially the successive deaths of his family members, is seldom made known to the public.

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

And it is this dark side of his life that makes his later works filled with a satiric

tone. Ironically, the man who makes the world laugh is made bitter by his all misfortunes. Thus his bitter life experience seems to be in contradiction with his own humorous works. And by presenting both sides of his life, the author presents to his readers a fuller picture of Mark Twain that will help them understand his works much better.

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

H is w ritin g s ty le :☆his style was precise, enviable, and well-crafted. He was a master of irony. His

characters were alive and fallible.☆His journalistic prose were filled with terse sarcasm.

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

Rhetoric devices Metaphor Simile Hyperbole Personification Antithesis Euphemism Alliteration Metonymy

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

1. Metaphor:

Mark Twain -- Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night... 明显地看到前途是一片黑暗的人 (paragraph 1) main artery of transportation in the young nation‘s heart密西西比河是这个年轻国家中部的交 通大动脉(paragraph 3) When

railroads began drying up the demand...

随着铁路运输的发展，社会上对汽船领航员的需求 日渐减少(paragraph 6)

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

2. Simile: Most American remember M. T. as the father of... ...a memory that seemed phonographic他那

像留声机般准确可靠的记忆3. Hyperbole(夸张): ...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom... The cast of characters... - a cosmos. .

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

4. Personification(拟人) the river had acquainted him with ... ...to literature's enduring gratitude... ...an entry that will determine his course forever...

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

5. Antithesis:(对偶)

...between what people claim to be and what they really are... ...took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land... ...a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever 6. Euphemism(委婉语) ...men's final release from earthly struggle diligently avoiding contact with the enemy -----means: retreating

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices

7. Alliteration(头韵) ...the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home .../ with a dash and daring.../ ...a recklessness of cost or consequences... 8. Metonymy:(转喻) ...his pen would prove mightier than his pickaxe 但在挣钱方面他的笔杆却比他的锄镐要有效 得多 pen is associated with writing talent, pickaxe is

associated with mining

高级英语lesson6 mark twainappreciation and retoric devices