1. LESSON THREE Writing skills Rhetorical device Quiz

2. Writing skills 开门见山 ( come straight to the point ) ： directly point out the gist of this article that even if we are normal people, and even if we have the special knowledge required, we still cannot say anything we need/want to say, for our language is not as perfect as we generally believe it to be. 过渡 ( transition ) ： transition such as :paragraph4 and 6….. 首尾呼应 ( coherent argument ) 议论文体 ( argumentation ) 例子的运用（ examples ） 夹叙夹议：（ Narration interspersed with comments ）

3. Rhetorical device 引入： Figures of Speech: 1)Phonetic Figures of Speech: alliteration assonance consonance onomatopoeia apostrophe pun 2)Syntactic Figures of Speech: repetition anaphora antithesis climax anticlimax rhetorical question 3)Semantic Figures of Speech: simile metaphor metonymy synecdoche personification parody 4)Logical Figures of Speech: hyperbole understatement irony euphemism oxymoron paradox

4. Rhetorical device parallelism 排比 : It is worrying when we can not find the right word, and it is worrying too that when we find it—in this case, collusion—it has no obvious relation to the rough paraphrase we started with: it is not as if the word turned out to be 'selfish-secret-work-to­gether'. Finally it is worrying that when we are strug­gling to find the 'right' word in this way. While we can single out one story or one yarn from a number of stories, we can't talk about 'a news' or 'an information'. Instead, we have to use a roundabout expression like 'I have another piece of for you'. While underclothes are made up of individual garments, we can not complain to the laundry that they have mislaid one 'underdo (the)' or one 'undy'. While we can talk about John's car or Mary's car, or John…

5. Rhetorical device rhetorical question 反问 ： 文章最后一段 Metaphor 隐喻： …of the way we are very largely the helpless prisoners of the language in general use around us.

6. quiz 1 ， class recalling ： A word spoken is ()(). 2, word information: A: match the correct one 1 ， Mechanical n 机制；机械装置 Mechanic 机械师，技工 Mechanism adj 机械驱动的，机械的, B: filling the blanks 1 We can try shouting ‘Excuse me’ but that is ambiguous: it may be taken to mean that we just want to push in a hurry. 2 There are many such arbitrary little limitations on our language. 3 It is worrying when we can not find the right word, and it is worrying too that when we find it—in this case, collusion —it has no obvious relation to the rough paraphrase we … past recalling

7. quiz C:GUESS the word learned from the paragraph according to the meanings they have given 1.By which,because of which 2.A brother or a sister 3.A way of dealing with or improving an unpleasant or difficult situation Whereby sibling remedy

8. quiz 3 ， translate the following sentences A ：千里之行始于足下。（ start with ） （参考译文： A journey of one thousand miles starts with one step. ） B ：他把这件事考虑了一整天才做出决定。 （ turn over in one’s mind ） 4 ， analysis the structure of this sentence What it does mean is that if my job or my hobby entailed a knowledge of these activities, my language would rise to the occasion. （答案： 1 ，整句是个表从句， 2 ， 表从的 主语是一个一个主从句充当的， 3 ，从虚拟 语气 entailed and would 可看出）

9. quiz What’s the difference between “solicitor” and “lawyer”? Please use the English words to explain “rise to the occasion” What does the last sentence imply? In the passage, why did the waitress get so angry with the author?

10. thank you ! Team 6