文档介绍：课程名称:高级英语
出版社:上海外语教育出版社
总主编: 戴炜栋
主编:王哲王善平赵伟礼
书名:新世纪研究生公共英语教材阅读B学生用书第二版
Advanced English
Ⅰ.Teaching Course: Advanced English
Ⅱ.Teaching Unit: Unit One
Ⅲ.Teaching Aims: 1. Master some types of the figure of speech
2. After reading the text, grasp the general ideas of the article
3. Paraphrase some difficult paragraphs in the text
Ⅳ.Difficult Points: get the meaning of the text thoroughly
Ⅴ.Teaching Periods: 12 periods (2 weeks)
Ⅵ.Teaching Methods: Instructive method
Ⅶ.Teaching demand: Students should do previewing before each period
Ⅷ.Teaching procedure:
1. Mayor types of the figure of speech
⑴. Simile
It is parison between two distinctly different things and parison is indicated by the word as or like. It has three parts: the tenor, indicator of resemblance, and the vehicle.
.;Food is to the body (the tenor) as (indicator of resemblance) fuel is to the engine (the vehicle).
⑵. Metaphor
It is the use of a word which originally denotes one thing to refer to another with a similar quality. It is also parison, but parison is implied, not expressed with the word as or like.
.: The green plant is a kind of food factory.
The next day he had a red face.
⑶. Personification
It is to treat a thing or an idea as if it were human or had human qualities. In poetry it is mon.
.: A soft wind kissed the tree tops.
My only worry was that January would find me hunting for a job again.
⑷. Metonymy
It is a figure of speech that has to do with the substitution of the name of one thing for that of another.
.: The mother did her best to take care of the cradle.
Her purse would not allow his luxury.
⑸. Synecdoche
It involves the substitution of part for the whole, or the whole for the part.
.: The farms were short of hands during the harvest season.
It was reported that Britain beat New Zealand in a football match yesterday.
⑹. Irony
It is the use of words which are clearly opposite to what it meant, in order to achi