※Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in histories.
※Setting is the time the action in a work of fiction, poetry, or drama.
The film version of Gone with the Wind, for example, is generally set in Civil War– era Georgia, while its opening scene takes place on the porch of Tara, Scarlett O’Hara’s family home, before the war begins.
It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use everyday means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.
※Symbol represents or stand for something else. Often the the thing or idea reresented is more abstract and general, and the symbol is more concrete and particular.
for example, the rose symbolize love.
Figurative Language is language that uses figures of speech.
※Yalta is a resort on the north coast of the Black Sea in the Crimean peninsula. It serves as the administrative center of Yalta Municipality.
He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.
his works:
The story is of the orphan Oliver Twist, who starts life in a workhouse and is then apprenticed with an undertaker. He escapes from there and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets, who leads to the lair of the elderly criminal Fagin.
set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.
Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Yet to Come.
a bildungsroman which depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.
※Hard Times
The book appraises English society and is aimed at highlighting the social and economic pressures of the times.
※" It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"
is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory.
※" imitation of an action of high importance"
※ Catharsis
meaning "purification" or "cleansing"
It is the purification and purgation of emotions—especially pity and fear.
It is a metaphor originally used by Aristotle in the Poetics
※Poetics Aristotle
we use imitation noy only for entertainment...
※The Western Canon by Harold Bloom on Western literature
※gothic fiction is a genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism. The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel.
for example,the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
※self-delusion
※當莎莉上哈利 When Harry met Sally
The story is set in Clayton County, Georgia, and Atlanta during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. It depicts the experiences of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to come out of the poverty she finds herself in after Sherman's March to the Sea.
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●tem-:with the same time
Temporal comtemporary
●mag-:大 big
magnitude magnificient magnify
●-tude:偏頗
attitude magnitude
●spect-:look
spectacular inspect
●dic-: to say a word
diction predict
●para-:平行
paraphrase
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