All About Literature

Week 3 For pleasure, for understanding Fantasy elements In-animated, transfer to another place, animal character Acre 百畝 Pooh 英國從加拿大進了一隻 swan, called “Winnie” 小孩拼錯字 Misspelling Winnie the Pooh Milne—milk Lemondrops 檸檬糖 Eeyore 擬聲字 (onomatopoeia) 水滴 Drip ( 小 ) Drop ( 大 ) Over the rainbow Wizard of Oz Suggest (the second definition) Reveal in a hidden way (reserved way) Stuff animal Oink Pig Boo Ghost Meow Cat Roar Beast Bookie man Sizzle 滋滋作響 Chirp Bird Tweet Bird Rumble 肚子餓 Quack 鴨子 Frog in stomach 打嗝 No conflict, no story. ...

Week 3 Learning word parts form context clues 1.       -ary It stands for adjective suffix e.g. customary, boundary 2.       il, im, in, ir They change a word to its opposite meaning e.g. illegal, immobile, inconspicuous, irrelevant dismiss Release/ ignore 3.       de- Move away from e.g. depreciate, decomposition (composi-: 合在一起 ) Interjections In grammar, an interjection or exclamation may be a word used to express an emotion or sentiment on the part of the speaker (although most interjections have clear definitions). Filled pauses such as uh, er, um are also considered interjections. Interjections are often placed at the beginning of a sentence. De-: down, away from e.g. depreciate, decline, depature Incongruous: not logically related to Con-: together, with Hedonis...

        Segue, verb: to proceed without interruption. Addie later recalled her host's charming segue to topics more pleasant. -- Gary Kinder, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea 2.     Palimpsest, noun: an object or place whose older layers or aspects are apparent. Each is a palimpsest, one improvisation partly burying another but leaving hints of it behind.         -- Robert Hughes, "Delight for Its Own Sake", Time, January 22, 1996 3.     Bete noire, noun: something or someone particularly detested or avoided. Even more regrettable, as far as Dame Edna is concerned, is the presence of her old bete noire, the extravagantly disgusting Sir Les Patterson. -- "The Dame's New Man", Daily Telegraph, April 18, 1998 4.     Farrago, noun: an assortment; a medley. Roy Hattersley will upset much of Scotland by calling Walter Scott's lvanhoe "a farrago of his...