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Unit 10
The Trial That Rocked the World
Teaching Points
? I,Background information
? II,Introduction to the passage
? III,Text analysis
? IV,Rhetorical devices
? V,Questions for discussion
I,Background Information
? 1,Henry Louis Mencken
? 2,William Jennings Bryan
? 3,United States Law
II,Introduction to the Passage
? 1.Type of literature:
? -- a piece of objective description
Introduction to the Passage
? 2.The purpose of a piece of objective
description,
? ---to record and reproduce a true
picture with opinions and emotions of
the author excluded
Introduction to the Passage
? 3,Ways of developing a piece of
objective description,
? ---to begin with a brief general
picture,divide the object into parts and
organize the detailed description in
order of space
III, Effective Writing Skills
? 1,making effective use of specific verbs
? 2,making effective use of description
IV, Rhetorical Devices
? 1,hyperbole
? 2,transferred epithet
? 3,synecdoche
? 4,ridicule
V,Text Analysis
VI, Special Difficulties
? 1,run-on sentences
? 2,unnecessary shifts in point of view
? 3,paraphrasing some sentences
? 4,identifying figures of speech
VII, Questions for Discussion
? 1,How much do you know about the author
from this article?
? 2,What do you think of the struggles
between fundamentalists and modernists?
? 3,Why was so much attention paid to this
trial in an out-of-the-way small town in the
U.S.?
? 4,Try to elaborate the views of Darrow and
Malone and that of Bryan’s.
? 5,What have you learned about the Bible?
VIII,Exercises
? P.150-153