高级英语II

张艳玲

目录

  • 1 教学安排
    • 1.1 2021-22学年校历，
    • 1.2 2021-22-2学期 教学安排
  • 2 Pub Talk and the King's English
    • 2.1 Learning Objectives and Tasks
    • 2.2 Culture information
    • 2.3 Detailed Study
      • 2.3.1 Part I-II
      • 2.3.2 Part III-VI
    • 2.4 Text Analysis
  • 3 Marrakech
    • 3.1 Learning Objective and Tasks
    • 3.2 Culture information
    • 3.3 Detailed study
    • 3.4 Text analysis
  • 4 Inauguaral Address
    • 4.1 Learning Objectives and Tasks
    • 4.2 Context
    • 4.3 Detailed study
    • 4.4 Text anlysis
  • 5 Love is a Fallacy
    • 5.1 Learning Objectives and Tasks
    • 5.2 Context
    • 5.3 Detailed Study
    • 5.4 Text Analysis
  • 6 Everyday Use
    • 6.1 Learning Objectives and Tasks
    • 6.2 Alice Walker
    • 6.3 Historical Context
    • 6.4 Cultural identity and Black Awareness
    • 6.5 How to analyze a short story
    • 6.6 Text analysis
      • 6.6.1 Plot overview
      • 6.6.2 Detailed study-language points
      • 6.6.3 Detailed study-Part 1
      • 6.6.4 Detailed study-Part 2-3
      • 6.6.5 Themes, Motifs and Symbols
      • 6.6.6 Analysis of Major Charatcers
      • 6.6.7 Irony
      • 6.6.8 Voice, Diction, and Humor
      • 6.6.9 Important quotations explained
  • 7 Loving and Hating New York
    • 7.1 Learning Objective and Tasks
    • 7.2 Context
    • 7.3 Detailed study
    • 7.4 Text analysis
  • 8 2020-21-2学期商英181-2学年论文
    • 8.1 学年论文要求及任务安排
    • 8.2 外院2021年最新模板及要求
    • 8.3 毕业论文开题报告范文
    • 8.4 怎样谋篇
    • 8.5 如何写“引言”
    • 8.6 如何写结论
    • 8.7 如何写摘要
    • 8.8 如何写“致谢”
How to analyze a short story
      How to Analyze a Short Story


      作业Questions and tasks:

      1. What is a short story? How different is it from a novel, a novella?

      2. List all the elements of a short story.

      3. Draw the plot diagram.

      Find the answers in the following video clip.

      For more see https://www.britannica.com/art/short-story#ref51040


      Elements of a short story



      Homework:  (hand in an e-copy)

      1. Analyze the elements of Everyday Use, i.e, its plot, characters, point of view, setting, climax, theme, symbols and methods to develop the theme. For your reference, watch the following video clip.

      2. Work out the structure outline of the story




       


      More for your reference:

      a) characterization: the author's expression of a character's personality through the use of action, dialogue, thought, or commentary by the author or another character.

      b) conflict: the struggle within the story. Character divided against self, character against character, character against society, character against nature, character against God. Without it, there is no story.

      c)  dialogue: vocal exchange between two or more characters. One of the ways in which plot, character, action, etc. are developed.

      d) imagery: the collection of images within a literary work. Used to evoke atmosphere, mood, tension. For example, images of crowded, steaming sidewalks flanking streets choked with lines of shimmering, smoking cars suggests oppressive heat and all the psychological tensions that go with it.

      e)  point of view: the vantage point from which the author presents action of the story. Who is telling the story? An all-knowing author? A voice limited to the views of one character? The voice and thoughts of one character? Does the author change point of view in the story? Why? Point of view is often considered the technical aspect of fiction which leads the critic most readily into the problems and meanings of the story.

      f)  symbol: related to imagery. It is something which is itself yet stands for or means something else. It tends to be more singular, a bit more fixed than imagery.

      g) tone: suggests an attitude toward the subject which is communicated by the words the author chooses. Part of the range of tone includes playful, somber, serious, casual, formal, ironic. Important because it designates the mood and effect of a work.