Part One Vocabulary Dictation

Part Two   Watch the video "The Joy of Logic" by BBC.

Part Three I. AdditionalBackground Knowledge 

1. The meaning of Logical fallacies 

2. Logical fallacies: 
-Dicto Simpliciter 
Hasty Generalization 
Poisoning the Well 
Ad Misericordiam 

Post Hoc

II. Introduction to the Passage 
1. Type of literature: a piece of narrative writing 
--protagonist/antagonists 
 --climax 
--denouement 
2. The main theme 
3. Well chosen title and words 
4. Style 
--a very fast pace with a racy dialogue full of American colloquialism andslang 
--employing a variety of writing techniques to make the story vivid, dramaticand colorful 
III. Effective Writing Skills: 
1. Employing colorful lexical spectrum, from the ultra learned terms to the infraclipped vulgar forms 
2. Too much figurative language and ungrammatical inversion for specificpurposes 
3. The using of short sentences, elliptical sentences and dashes to maintainthe speed of narration 
IV. Rhetorical Devices: 
1. metaphor 
2. antithesis 
3. transferred epithet 
4. hyperbole 
5. metonymy 
6. litotes 
7. ellipsis 
8. synecdoche 
9. inversion 
10. simile 
11. mixed metaphor 
12. rhetorical questions 
V. Special Difficulties 
1. Analyzing the logical fallacies 
2. Using inverted sentences to achieve emphasis 
3. Effectively using many figures of speech 
4. Understanding colloquial expressions and slang 
5. Allusions: 
--Frankenstein 
--Pygmalion 
6. Paraphrasing some sentences 
7. Identifying figures of speech 
VI. Questions 
1. Define and give an example of each of the logical fallacies discussed inthis essay. 
2. Can you find any evidence to support the view that the writer is satirizinga bright but self-satisfied young man? 
3. Comment on the language used by Polly. What effect does her language create?
4. Why does the writer refer to Pygmalion and Frankenstein? Are these allusionsaptly chosen? 
5. In what sense is the conclusion ironic?