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Unit 9
Mark Twain----Mirror of America
Teaching Points
? I,Background information
? II,Introduction to the passage
? III,Text analysis
? IV,Rhetorical devices
? V,Questions for discussion
I,Background Information
? 1,Mark Twain
? 2,Tramp printer
? 3,Confederate guerrilla
? 4,Philippine Moros
II,Introduction to the Passage
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,The requirements of writing a
summary
? 2,Using many elliptical and short,
simple sentences to achieve certain
effect
IV, Rhetorical Devices
? 1,Antithesis
? 2,Alliteration
? 3,Personification
V,Text Analysis
VI, Special Difficulties
? 1,Compound nouns and compound
adjectives
? 2,Paraphrasing some sentences
? 3,Identifying figures of speech
? 4.Translating some sentences
VII, Questions for Discussion
? 1,Why is Mark Twain one of America’s best-
loved authors?
? 2.Give a brief account of Mark Twain’s
experience before he became a writer,
? 3,When did Mark Twain become a pilot on a
steamboat?
? 4,What story did he write that made him
known as,the wild humorist of the Pacific
slope”?
VIII,Exercises
? P.