综合英语Book IV Unit 7 A Sunrise on the Veld.pptVIP

Pre-reading: What does the title suggest to you? What type of writing do you expect it to be? The Golden Notebook (1962) Doris Lessing’s real breakthrough. It used a more complex narrative technique to reveal how political and emotion conflicts are intertwined. The style levels of differing documents and experiences mix: newspaper cuttings, news items, films, dreams and diaries. The Cleft won the 2007 Nobel Prise in Literature Stylistic analysis Generally, the text is a moving, even disturbing piece of narrative writing about a wounded buck being eaten by ants in the bush. Though short, it is a convincing portrayal of a living thing dying in pain. 1.The writer employs similes to help us to picture something through comparison and parallelism for further imaginative effect. 2.She employs exaggeration and a range of imagery in describing the ants ---to create an impression of horror. 3.She makes use of specific, concrete details such as sounds, light, movements, smells and colour---to make the scene realistic and vivid. By using concrete words and specific details, the writer achieves her purpose of “reaching” the reader and arousing his sympathetic interest. The specific and concrete words 4.She deliberately refers to the buck in different terms to avoid monotony,eg 1)the fighting shape 2)the beast (fell and the screaming stopped) 3)the writhing blackness that jerked convulsively with the jerking nerves. 4)the mass that still looked vaguely like shape of a small animal. 5)the shape (had grown small) 6)…(he saw) the blackness (thin) 5.She varies the length and complexity sentences to avoid monotony and sustain the reader’s interest. 6.The writer uses the a narrator who speaks in the third-person to relate the boy’s experience which superficially leaves her detached from and objective about the matter. But she uses the first person when relating the boy’s thoughts to achieve vividness. 7.The writer ends the passage by asking two rhetorical question to foc