Unit 2 The language of Literature

课堂组织形式课堂组织形式 : : 面授　小组讨论面授　小组讨论课堂使用资源课堂使用资源 :: 《文学英语赏析》教材《文学英语赏析》教材教学内容教学内容：文学语言：文学语言时间安排时间安排：： 33 课时课时

1.1. 结合辅导第二单元学习的结合辅导第二单元学习的 IPIP 课件，课件，介绍明喻、介绍明喻、暗喻、拟人、重复、平行结构（排比）、反语、暗喻、拟人、重复、平行结构（排比）、反语、一语双关等修辞格一语双关等修辞格

2.2. 组织小组讨论组织小组讨论

讨论题目：诗歌“讨论题目：诗歌“ The Sea”The Sea” 中，作者使用中，作者使用

的不同修辞手法的不同修辞手法

3. 3. 布置作业：运用简单的修辞手法，自己写篇诗歌布置作业：运用简单的修辞手法，自己写篇诗歌

上次课复习上次课复习 : : 日常生活中的文学日常生活中的文学本次课新授内容本次课新授内容 :: 文学语言中的修辞格文学语言中的修辞格

1.master the major devices, such as metaphor, simile,personification

2.be sensitive to the importance of word choice and syntactic structure.

3. learn how speech is realised in writing

本单元学习目标

Section 1 Comparing Things

I.Simile （明喻） : one thing is compared with

another,usually using the word like, as, as...as

For example:

as brave as a lion

as talkative as rain

as stubborn as a mule

Don’t stand there like a tin of milk.

Task 1 （学生以小组为单位做练习）

Try to invent as...as comparison by using the list of adjectives below:

cunning, green, bright , thirsty, soft, proud

Task 2 （每个学习小组出一篇作品）

Write a simple simile poem

list A: love, friendship, my father, my sister, women

list B: the sea, the stone, weather of July, angel, apple...

自己作品供学生参考：Youth is like may flower

More charming and delicate in

shower ;

Youth is like eagle

hovers it proudly though single;

Youth is like fire

Kindled is the passion for ever.

II.Metaphor （暗喻） :

It refers to a creation when we makea direct comparison between one idea(love)and another, unrelated idea( red rose).For example: Happiness is flower( X is Y) a stormy night (adj) acid comments His voice thundered out across the room(verb) They were prodded into action

That time of year thou may‘st in me beholdWhen yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,Bare ruined choirs where late the sweet birds sang.那样的时令你可在我身上看到：

几片黄叶挂在枝头随风飘荡，或枝头空空，只有寒风呼啸，

歌坛败落，不再有鸟儿歌唱。Functions~To reveal aspects of experience in a new light.~To reinforce a message.

Shakespeare. Sonnet 73　 　

Section 2 Some Other Figures of Speech and Literary Devices

Alliteration （头韵） : the same consonant

sound is repeated in words either next to or

close to each other.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

(tongue- twister)

Assonance （类韵）It refers to the repitition of similar vowel

sounds close to each other.

Go not go gentle into that good night

Old age should burn and rave at close of day,

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

老年应该在日暮时情绪热烈； 愤怒，愤怒地抗拒阳光的泯灭。

Personification （拟人）It occurs when a non-animate object is given animate characteristics.

The breeze is fondling our face.

The river sings a beautiful song.

The leaves was trembling in the wind , crying for salvation.

Repetition （重复）

It can be found at all levels.

sounds: alliteration, assonance, rhyme.

words: Eagle! Eagle! The most noble king in the sky!Parallelism of structure: Their’s not to make reply Their’s but to do and die

Pun （双关语）

A play on the ambiguity of meaning of a word or words.

Make your every hello a real good-buy.

让你的每一声 " 哈罗 " 都真的物有所值。

Parallelism （平行） :

It refers to an identical structure repeated one or more times.

the sound of the words: I kissedher/ ’Ere

I killed her the rhythm

sentence structure: Monday for wealth Tuseday for health

Irony and Sarcasm

Irony: it occurs when a person’s words

do not match their intention.

Sarcasm: it aims to hurt or humiliate the

receiver; irony is no more than an

amused comment.

For example ：A poor man wins a lottery, but on

his way to collect the prize money,

he is run over by a bus （ Irony ） .

You are so beautiful today that you

must win the first place in the

worldwide beauty competition （ Sarcasm ） .

The Sea( 大海）

The sea is a hungry dog,Giant and grey,He rolls on the beach all day.With his clashing teeth and shaggy jawsHour upon hour he gnawsThe rumbling, tumbling stones,And 'Bones, bones, bones!'The giant sea-dog moans,Licking his greasy paws.

And when the night wind roarsAnd the moon rocks in the stormy cloud,

He bounds to his feet and snuffs andsniffs,Shaking his wet sides over the cliffs,And howls and hollos long and loud.

But on quiet days in May or June,When even the grasses on the dunePlay no more their reedy tune,With his head between his pawsHe lies on the sandy shores,So quiet, so quiet, he scarcely snores （见课本第 18 页）

Section 3Section 3

1.1. 小组讨论小组讨论

讨论题目：诗歌“讨论题目：诗歌“ The Sea”The Sea” 中，作者使用中，作者使用

的不同修辞手法的不同修辞手法

每个小组派一名代表发表自己的讨论结果，指导教每个小组派一名代表发表自己的讨论结果，指导教

师根据学员的发言做出相应的点评。师根据学员的发言做出相应的点评。

2.2. 布置作业：运用简单的修辞手法，自己写篇诗歌布置作业：运用简单的修辞手法，自己写篇诗歌

Many Thanks!Many Thanks!