大学高级英语第一册Lesson-14Argentia-Bay

1、 Argentia is a community on the island of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is situated on a flat headland located along the southwest coast of the Avalon Peninsula on Placentia Bay.Argentia Herman Wouk American novelist A Pulitzer Prize winner Graduation from Co

2、lumbia University Radio scriptwriter Enlisted in the navy Herman Wouk (1915-):Famous works:The Winds of War (1971)The City Bay (1948)The Caine Mutiny (1951, Pulitzer Prize)War and Remembrance(1977). It is excerpted from the book,The Winds of War: The story is a fiction with the main character, Pug V

3、ictor Henry being a mid-rank officer who witnesses all the major events during World War II Background information World War IIWar between Britain and Nazi Germany was declared on September 3, 1939 in the aftermath of Hitlers invasion of Poland .Argentia was selected in 1940 to be the location of a

4、United States Navy basePrince of Wales : The ship was sunk by the Japanese in the South China Sea in December 1941.Lend-lease arrangementLend-lease arrangement The land beneath the village was traded to the United States for construction of the base under the lend-lease programmeSummary The story de

5、scribes the Roosevelt-Churchill conference in August 1941. Understandably, it was held in the utmost secrecy, and it was not given to anybody but the top few what was going on inside the conference roomnor to Victor Pug Henry, a navy captain and presidential aide, but not ranking high enough to be a

6、 participant.Writing style Narration The telling of a story A good narration has a beginning, a middle and an end. ComponentsPlotCharacters Background Prime ministerShortMuch olderPresidentTall but paralyzedStructureStructurePart2: Harry HopkinsPart3: Churchill callsPart4: Roosevelt hobbles acrossPa

7、rt5: A request from the BritishPart6: U-boat sightingPart7: “Well have to pay the price”Chronological orderPart1: Argentia BayPart 1 Description of Argentia BayPart 2 Henry went to Prince of Wales to send a letter. The staff began to have a conference talking about their plan to fight against German

8、. Part 3Churchill came to the Augusta and the staffs got right to business and conferred all dayPart 4 Roosevelt came to the Prince of WalesPart 5 British request American destroyers to escort them backPart 6 Churchill show Henry the submarine sightings chart. Part 7 America refused to fight against

9、 German because the congressman didnt agree.1. making effective use of specific verbs 2. using adjectives accurately 3. using five human sense: shearing, smelling, seeing, tasting and touching to make the description vivid 4.using rhetorical devices properly 5.grasping the skills of comment writingR

10、hetorical DevicesThe difference between synesthesia and transferred epithetSynesthesia (通感) It refers to the mixing of sensations or the stimulation of one sense that produces a mental impression associated with a different sense. Transferred Epithet (转类形容词） It is a figure of speech where an epithet

11、 (an adjective or descriptive phrase) is transferred from the noun it should rightly modify(修饰) to another to which it does not really apply or belong. ?Question: 1.Franklin Roosevelt listened with bright-eyed smiling attention. transferred epithet 2. He gave me a sour look. synesthesiaTransferred E

12、pithet Pug was aghast to see cigarette butts and wastepaper in the scuppers, though droves of blue jackets were doing an animated scrub-down. (page.235,para.3,line 7) Oxymoron: (矛盾修饰矛盾修饰) A kind of a paradox or antithesis that links together two sharply contrasting terms such as 1.“cheerful pessimis

13、t”, 2.”living deaths”, 3. “freezing fires”, 4.“glorious defeat”Oxymoron Hopkins gave Victor Henry a sad smile. (page.238, para.23, line.4) Alliteration Hopkins staggered inside, settling with a sigh on the cushions. (page.237,para.17,line.2) Parallelism & Repetition Haze and mist blended all int

14、o gray: gray water, gray sky, gray air, gray hills with a tint of green. (para.1,line 4) This plain truth, so simple once agreed on, ran a red line across every request, every program, every projection. (page.239, para.4, line. 10) Simile At nine oclock, three gray destroyers steamed into view, ahead of a battleship camouflaged in swirls of color like snakeskin.(para.2,line 2) Metaphor Passing from the Augusta to the Prince of Wales in Kings barge, over a few hundred yards of still water, Victor Henry went from America to England and from peace to war. (page.235, para.3,li