[英语学习]高级英语第二册unit 5.pptVIP

Lesson Five Love is a Fallacy 1 A Brief Summery: Max Shulman wants to demonstrate that logic is far from a boring and academic subject through the story. The theme and also the title of the story is that love is a fallacy. The Title Ordinary sense: there is a deceptive (欺骗性的) quality about love. A term in logic : love cannot be deduced from a set of given premises.Love doesn’t follow the principles of logic. We don’t love someone on logical grounds.” “love” is an error, a deception and an emotion that does not follow the principles of logic. characters in the story Dobie Gillis, a freshman in a law school, is the hero or protagonist. He is also the narrator. He is a self-conceited and smug fellow. Petey Burch: one of the two antagonists, Dobie’s roommate, who, according to the narrator, is a stupid, emotional and impressionable (easily influenced by others), and a faddist. He has a mad desire for a raccoon coat. He is dating with a beautiful girl named Polly Espy Polly Espy: a beautiful, gracious, but not intelligent girl. Plot 11 Writing techniques: Max Shulman has a style quite his own. The story goes forward at a very fast pace with a lively dialogue full of American colloquialism and slang. He employs a whole variety of writing techniques to make his story vivid, dramatic and colorful. 1.The lexical spectrum is colorful – from the ultra learned terms 极端学术语 used by the conceited narrator to the vulgar language for Polly Espy. 1) The use of exclamatory words “Gee” “Oo” “Wow-dow” 2)The use of clipped vulgar forms “delish” “marvy” “sensaysh”“terrif”“magnif” 3) The use of ultra learned terms “Dicto Simpliciter”“Post Hoc”“Ad Misericordiam” 4) The use of colloquial words “dumb” “pin-up” “kid”“go steady”“date”“HolyToledo”“casual kick”,“terrif”“magnif”“yummy”“fire away” 5) The use of slangs “nothing upstairs” “keen” “deal”“nut”“knock one out”“dreamy”“how cute”“rat”“knot-head”“jitterbug”“guy” “fracture” To sum up, the lexical spectrum is made so colorful by th