Click to edit Master text,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Mark Twain,-Mirror of America,Made by:Chanel Luo,Para 13 Text Analysis,Mirror of America,“Mirror,Is a piece of glass or other shinny/polished surface that reflects images.,Here,it is a metaphor.,It means a faithful representation or description of something(the USA).,Why does the author say that Mark Twain is the mirror of America?,Mark Twain:Samuel Langhorne Clemens,His Life _ Historic Events of USA,Tramp printer,印刷工,-Prosperous,River pilot,领航员,-Mississippi River,Transcontinental Railroads,Guerrilla,游击队员,-The Civil War,Prospector,淘金者,-Gold Rush,Reporter,记者,-Westward Expansion,Correspondent,通信员,-Europe,the Holy Land,Writer,作家,-Tom Sawyers innocence,Huck Finns experience,The assertion that,Mark Twain is the mirror of America,is made in two senses.,Mark Twains exciting,adventuresome life stories themselves mirror,a part of true American history,and the,life of ordinary American people.,Mark Twain,Second,his life experience furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity,as well as with the perfect grasp of local customs and speech,which Mark Twain has manifested so well in his writing.,His works mirror the real society of his time.,The whole sentence structure:parallelism.,rememberas,e.g.,鲁迅创造了阿,Q,这是大多数的中国人所熟知的,.,Most Chinese people remember Luxun,as,the father of Ah Qu.,Father,:metaphor,here means the creator or the author.,cruise through eternal boyhood,：,journey through lasting boyhood,endless summer of freedom and adventure,：,long summer full of free and adventurous activities,Eternal&Endless,:hyperbole,夸张,这两个词说明哈克贝利费恩和汤姆索亚两个人物会永远活在读者心中,突出了马克吐温笔下的两个文学形象的永恒魅力,.,Idyllic cruise,诗情画意的旅程,Idyllic:a simple happy period of life,often in the country,or a scene from such a time.,cruise:a sea voyage for pleasure,especially one on a large ship and lasting for s everal days or weeks.,Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finns idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyers endless summer of freedom and adventure.,In-deed,this nations best-loved author was,every bit as,adventurous,patriotic,romantic,and humorous,as anyone has ever imagined.,every bit as as:,just asas,quite asas,完全，同样的,e.g.,He is every bit as clever as you are.,Adventurous,Patriotic,Romantic,Humorous,Do they have deep meanings apart from their literal meanings?,“Adventurous,Mark Twain liked to try something new,like a new life,a new place and new writing skills and so on.,“patriotic,shows his strong passion or love for his country,countrymen and natural scenery.,“romantic,idealistic,emotional and artistic.,“humorous,he made people laugh,brought them fun and joy,his writing is full of witty languages.,Further understanding of these adjectives,Cynical,愤世嫉俗的,a cynicdenying the sincerity of peoples motives and actions;seeing no goodness in human behavior.having little faith in human sincerity or goodness.,E.G.a cynical man/a cynical attitude/a cynical smile,Profound:to emphasize that sth.is very great and intense,深度的,深远的,E.G.His love/feeling for his country was profound.,deal:to give,to give out,to strike,to distribute,给予,deal sb.a blow to cause sb.great difficulties,He dealt me a hard blow on the chin.,obsess:v.To occupy the mind of excessively,keep thinking about sth.and find it difficult to think about anything else.,使着迷,困扰,The fear of death obsessed her throughout her old age.,frailty:a weakness of character or behavior.虚弱,弱点,One of the frailties of human nature is laziness.,Frailty,thy name is woman!(Hamlet),“A black wall of night-Rhetoric device,Structure,Imply?,Rhetoric device-Metaphor,compare the dark night as the black wall,Structure-n.+of(像)+n.,Imply-the color“black or“dark and“night,-implies something hopeless.,opposite to“day and“daybreak and“light,-“hope or“hopefulness.,“a black wall of night-“despair and hopelessness.,e.g.He did not see a bright future but a dark one and a hopeless one.,tramp:流浪汉,a person who has no home or permanent job and very little money,guerrilla 游击队员,a member of an unofficial fight group which attacks the enemy in small groups unexpectedly.,Starry-eyed optimist 耽于幻象的乐天派,a person disposed to take a favorable of view of things,acid-tongued cynic 语言尖刻的挖苦家,a person who believes the worst about people or the outcome of events,range across 浪迹,to travel without any definite plan or destination,a fairly literary use.,同义词区别,:wander,range,saunter,stroll,Range,to travel without any definite plan or destination,a fairly literary use.,Wander,implies the absence of a fixed course or more or less indifference to a course that has been fixed or otherwise indicated.The term may imply the movement of a walker whether human or animal,but it may be used of anything capable of direction.,漫游,徘徊,Saunter,stresses a leisurely pace and in idle and carefree mind.,漫步,闲逛,Stroll,differs from saunter chiefly in the implications of an objective,(as sight-seeing or exercise)pursued without haste and sometimes with wandering from one place to another