Text Analysis Theme CONTEMPORARY 现代大学英语 O Urbanization and resistance? Industrialization and the death of traditional handicrafts? Development and the loss of tradition? B
Text Analysis Theme lUrbanization and resistance? lIndustrialization and the death of traditional handicrafts? lDevelopment and the loss of tradition? T W B R
Text Analysis Structure CONTEMPORARY 现代大学英 Part I:the wife's speech (para.1-3) The wife talks about the land, her family and her children. (para.4-7) The wife talks about the changes she dislikes and can't adjust to. Part II:the farmer's The farmer talks about the reason for his silence,his worry speech (para.8-11) about their land and the joy he finds in life and farming
Text Analysis Structure T W B R The wife talks about the land, her family and her children. Th e w if e t a l k s a b o u t t h e changes she dislikes and can’t adjust to. The farmer talks about the reason for his silence, his worry about their land and the joy he finds in life and farming. Part I: the wife’s speech Part II: the farmer’s speech (para. 8—11) (para. 1—3) (para. 4—7)
Text Analysis Language Style CONTEMPORARY 现代大学英语 。Colloquialism 一 Small and simple words Short sentences Straightforward language Figures of speech used to achieve vivid,expressive and appropriate description Simile Metaphor Personification Zeugma
Text Analysis Language Style • Colloquialism – Small and simple words – Short sentences – Straightforward language • Figures of speech used to achieve vivid, expressive and appropriate description – Simile – Metaphor – Personification – Zeugma
Text Analysis CONTEMPORARY Language Style 现代大学英 Simile: .it is like a knife piercing my heart. ·Metaphor:: .this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. ·Personification: Our piece of land is small,and it is no longer fertile,bleeding year after year and,like us,getting old and exhausted 。Zeugma: The soil is not difficult to till when there is a lot of rain,but in a bad year,it's not only the ploughs that break but our hearts,too. More examples?
Text Analysis Language Style • Simile: . it is like a knife piercing my heart. • Metaphor: . this bag of bones dressed in rags can still plant and reap rice from morning till dusk. • Personification: Our piece of land is small, and it is no longer fertile, bleeding year after year and, like us, getting old and exhausted. • Zeugma: The soil is not difficult to till when there is a lot of rain, but in a bad year, it’s not only the ploughs that break but our hearts, too. More examples?
Text Analysis Language Style CONTEMPORARY 现代大学英语 What figure of speech is used in the underlined part of each sentence? 1.The senator picked up his hat as well as his courage. 2.How soon hath Time,the subtle thief of youth,stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year! 3.The soft cool breeze moves the sheaves,which ripple and shimmer like waves of gold 4.All night long she sang with her breast against the thorn,and the cold crystal Moon leaned and listened. 答案见备注栏
Text Analysis Language Style • What figure of speech is used in the underlined part of each sentence? 1. The senator picked up his hat as well as his courage. 2. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year! 3. The soft cool breeze moves the sheaves, which ripple and shimmer like waves of gold. 4. All night long she sang with her breast against the thorn, and the cold crystal Moon leaned and listened. • 答案见备注栏