1. Writing skills: language usage

2. Rhetorical devices: 1) simile; 2) metaphor; 3) allusion; 4) hyperbole; 5) metonymy; 6) rhetorical question; 7) antithesis; 8) synecdoche; 9) parallelism；10) transferred epithet；11）understatement； 12）mixed metaphor

3. Stylistic features: narration

Identify the rhetorical devices in the following sentences.

1. Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. ( )

2. A thousand mustaches can live together, but not four breast.( )

3. There sits my animal guarding the door to the henhouse. ( )

Key:

1. simile;

2.metonymy ;

3synecdoshe

Tell why the following narration is well-written.

A Seaside Holiday

Once we spent our holiday at the seaside. When we arrived at the seaside, the weather was fine and everything around us was beautiful. The sea was all blue with seagulls hovering to and fro. Some boats were floating on the still sea and some speed boats were rushing quickly across the water.

We all enjoyed a pleasant time. Most of us swam in the sea. We played and splashed water onto one another. Having swum for a while, we went to the shore and bathed in the sun on the sand ground. Some went boating. They sang as they boated. The others played games at the shore.

We all spent the time happily. When it was time to go back, we were all reluctant to leave. We were freshened by the sea wind and fascinated by the scenery. The bath in the sea made us healthy and comfortable. I should say a holiday at the seaside is really enjoyable and profitable.

Key:

The narration follows a chronological order. It consists of the basic elements: setting, purpose, details, ending and the first-person point of view. What’s more, the description in the first paragraph, which is closely related to the theme of the narration, makes the narration more effective and impressive and therefore naturally achieves artistic effect.

论文题目：大学英语三大体裁文章阅读模式构建

作者：刘惠惠

摘要：在当今这个信息时代,英语阅读教学的目标被赋予了更新的内容和更高的要求,以使培养出来的人才能更快更好的去利用英语获取和传递信息,进行有效交流。然而,我国的大学英语阅读教学在很多地方还存在不足,为了提高当代大学生的英语阅读能力,提高大学生运用语言的能力,本研究论文从大学英语三大体裁的结构分析入手,阐述了大学英语说明文、记叙文、议论文的阅读技巧。

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作者：范春芳； 汪云芳；

摘要：近年来,我国高职教育发展迅猛,对于提高高职学生口语和阅读的研究不在少数,但对他们英语写作的关注甚少,尤其是记叙文。实际上,记叙是和现实生活息息相关的一种表达能力。本文从高职学生的英语记叙文写作错误入手,调查了错误的主要类型,并在此基础上分析了错误的原因,提出了一些可行性的建议,以期对高职英语写作教学有所帮助。