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Unit 12
The Loons
Teaching Points
? I,Background information
? II,Introduction to the passage
? III,Text analysis
? IV,Rhetorical devices
? V,Questions for discussion
I,Background Information
? 1,Margaret Laurence
? 2,Big Bear and Poundmaker
? 3,Hiawatha
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
adjective
? 2,using many elliptical and short
sentences to achieve certain effect
IV, Rhetorical Devices
? 1,simile
? 2,antithesis
? 3,assonance
V,Text Analysis
VI, Special Difficulties
? 1,paraphrasing some sentences
? 2,dangling modifiers
? 3,illogical and faulty parallelism
? 4,translating some sentences
VII, Questions for Discussion
? 1,What would happen sometimes to old
Jules or his son Lazarus on Saturday nights?
? 2,Why did the doctor propose taking
Piquette to Diamond Lake for the summer?
? 3,What was the cottage on the lake called?
What was the scenery there like?
? 4,Why did the narrator ask Pquetter
respectfully.,I bet you know a lot about the
woods and all that,Eh.”?
VIII,Exercises
? P.