unit_4_section_B zuijin.pptVIP

Section B Engelbreit’s the Name, Cute Is My Game Reading Skill Reading Practice Words and Expressions After-reading Activities Further Information ---Appreciating Figurative Language language that uses images or mental pictures to appeal to readers’ imagination, and to allow writers to create complex associations that go beyond the power of literal language. Efficient readers know how to recognize and interpret figures of speech in order to understand the author’s meaning more deeply and think about ideas in new ways.?? Reading Skill Let’s look at the underlined words and phrases in the following sentences taken from Passage A and try to answer the following questions:? ??? What comparisons are being made?? ??? What mental pictures do they bring to your mind?? ??? What ideas is the author trying to convey? Example :??? Since her introduction in 1959, Barbie has become the universally recognized Queen of the Dolls. ? ? A queen is the number one woman of the country. Here Barbie is compared to a queen of dolls, which says she is the number one doll in the world. 1. “I was crushed,” Engelbreit admits. 2. Greeting cards seemed a come-down from her high expectations. 3. “We Don’t Care How They Do It in New York, the card boasts. 4. Most often, there’s Ann Estelle, a woman with short, straight hair, big glasses, hat and an acid tongue. 5. Indeed, it’s her trademark. To crush is to press something so hard that it is broken. Here Mary compares herself to a thing that is too weak to resist the pressure, i.e., the harsh words from publishers. Mary admits that her heart is broken. At the very beginning Engelbreit did not expect to draw greeting cards; she aimed high. Now that she was told to be better suited for drawing greeting cards, she felt it was a come-down from high expectations — an inferior of a kind. To her, drawing greeting cards was a fal