用法
make
keep a promise
break
A promise is to be kept.
Movie
Charlotte's Web
--More discussion on movie
Charlotte likes to use big words.
Charlotte likes to use big words.
It's not who you are. It's what you
have done.
It's my pleasure
say grace
謝飯
coaster
旋轉木馬
faetch[口語化]=get
ex.
fatech a cap 搭計程車
Stop littering! 不要亂丟垃圾
Character
Flat
character: an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully
delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author
--Fern: has few traits that distinguish her
from other little girls
Stock
character: a character in literature, theater, or film of a type quickly
recognized and accepted by the reader or viewer and requiring no development by
the writer.
--Lurvy:
has only the expected traits and does only the excepted traits.
Character
Foil: whose traits are in direct contrast to a principal character
Round
character: a character in
fiction whose personality, background, motives, and
other features are fully delineated by the author.
--Wilbur: he is the central character
Quote
Wilbur... we're
born, we live, and when our time comes, we die. It's just a natural cycle of
life.—讚美造物主
--Another example: Tyger
BY WILLIAM BLAKE
Tyger Tyger,
burning bright,
In the forests of
the night;
What immortal hand
or eye,
Could frame thy
fearful symmetry?
In what distant
deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of
thine eyes?
On what wings dare
he aspire?
What the hand,
dare seize the fire?
And what shoulder,
& what art,
Could twist the
sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart
began to beat,
What dread hand?
& what dread feet?
What the hammer?
what the chain,
In what furnace
was thy brain?
What the anvil?
what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly
terrors clasp!
When the stars
threw down their spears
And water'd heaven
with their tears:
Did he smile his
work to see?
Did he who made
the Lamb make thee?
Tyger Tyger
burning bright,
In the forests of
the night:
What immortal hand
or eye,
Dare frame thy
fearful symmetry?
Camomile tea
Chamomile - which
can also be spelled 'camomile' - is a daisy-like
herb renowned in folk and traditional medicine for its health, cosmetic,
and nutritional benefits.
alliteration
is a stylistic literary device identified by the repeated
sound of the first letter in a series of multiple words, or the repetition of the same letter sounds in stressed
syllables of a phrase. "Alliteration" is from the Latin word
littera, meaning "letter of the alphabet", and the first known use of
the word to refer to a literary device occurred around 1624. Alliteration
narrowly refers to the repetition of a letter in any syllables that, according
to the poem's meter, are stressed as in James Thomson's verse
"Come…dragging the lazy languid Line along". Another example is
"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers".
To Helen-- Edgar
Allan Poe
Helen, thy beauty
is to me
Like those Nicéan
barks of yore,
That gently, o'er
a perfumed sea,
The weary,
way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native
shore.
On desperate seas
long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair,
thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs
have brought me home
To the glory that
was Greece,
And the grandeur
that was Rome.
Lo! in yon
brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I
see thee stand,
The agate lamp
within thy hand!
Ah, Psyche, from
the regions which
Are Holy-Land!
John Donne
was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.
He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the
metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style
and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams,
elegies, songs, satires and sermons. His poetry is noted for its vibrancy of
language and inventiveness of metaphor, especially compared to that of his
contemporaries. Donne's style is characterised by
abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These
features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his
tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness
of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European
baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that
bore immense knowledge of English society and he met that knowledge with sharp
criticism. Another important theme in Donne's poetry is
the idea of true religion, something that he spent much time considering and
about which he often theorized. He wrote secular poems as well as erotic
and love poems. He is particularly famous for his mastery of metaphysical
conceits.
Holy Sonnets: Death, be not proud by John Donne
Death,
be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty
and dreadful, for thou art not so;
For those whom
thou think'st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor
Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and
sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure;
then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our
best men with thee do go,
Rest of their
bones, and soul's delivery.
Thou art slave to
fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with
poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or
charms can make us sleep as well
And better than
thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
One short sleep
past, we wake eternally
And death shall be
no more; Death, thou shalt die
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne[change growth]
As virtuous men
pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of
their sad friends do say
The breath goes now, and some say, No:
So let us melt,
and make no noise,
No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;
'Twere profanation
of our joys
To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th'
earth brings harms and fears,
Men reckon what it did, and meant;
But trepidation of
the spheres,
Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary
lovers' love
(Whose soul is sense) cannot admit
Absence, because
it doth remove
Those things which elemented it.
But we by a love
so much refined,
That our selves know not what it is,
Inter-assured of
the mind,
Care less, eyes, lips, and hands to miss.
Our two souls
therefore, which are one,
Though I must go, endure not yet
A breach, but an
expansion,
Like gold to airy thinness beat.
If
they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the
fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if the other do.
And though it in
the center sit,
Yet when the other far doth roam,
It leans and
hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be
to me, who must,
Like th' other foot, obliquely run;
Thy firmness makes
my circle just,
And makes me end where I begun.
Video
Wit:
Death not be proud
Oxymoron[矛盾修辭法]
is a figure of speech that juxtaposes elements that appear
to be contradictory, but which contain a concealed point. Oxymorons
appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors (such as
"ground pilot") and literary oxymorons crafted to reveal a paradox.
Ex: bitter
sweet/ parting is such sweet sorrow
The Scarlet Letter
in 17th-century
Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter
through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
Divine Comedy
is a poem by Dante
Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed 1320, a year before his death in 1321.
It is widely considered the preeminent work of
Italian literature and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature.
The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is
representative of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western
Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in
which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into
three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
Song
Ordinary Miracles
Vocabulary
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