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Unit 14 ArgentiaBayby Herman Wouk Teaching Points I. Background information II. Introduction to the passage III. Text analysis IV. Rhetorical devices V. Questions for discussionI. Background Information 1.?Herman Wouk 2.??Argentia Bay 3.??Bismarck 4. World War II in the historyII. Introduction to the Passage 1.Type of literature: -- a piece of objective description 2.The purpose of a piece of objective description: ---to record and reproduce a true picture with opinions and emotions of the author excluded 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 spaceIII . Effective Writing Skills1. making effective use of specific verbs 2.??grasping the skill of comment writing IV . Rhetorical Devices1.?? sarcasm 2.?synecdoche 3.??alliteration 4.??metonymy 5. Transferred EpithetV. Text AnalysisVI . Special Difficulties 1.??paraphrasing some sentences 2.??translating some sentences 3.??understanding some specific terms 4.??the skill of comment writingI. Background Information1. Herman Wouk: American novelist, A Pulitzer Prize winner. Famous works: The Winds of War (1971) and War and Rememberance (1977).2. Pulitzer Prize: founded by Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), American newspaper publisher who gave Columbia University $2,000,000 in 1903 for the creation of the Columbia School of Journalism and also the Prizes. Today there are Pulitzer Prizes for distinguished works in American fiction, drama, history, biography and autobiography, nonfiction, poetry and music. 3. The Winds of War: The story is a fiction with the main character, Pug Victor Henry being a mid-rank officer who witnesses all the major events during World War II.A novelty of this fiction is, with the ongoing of the story itself, a imaginary reminiscences by a German strategist was put in at intervals of chapters. That is to say, every a couple of chapters into the novel, a