▲大學生知道了沒
1. Before taking the class: read assignments and do research
2.
Core skills
such as critical thinking, reasoning, and writing skills are important skills
you have to acquire in academic development
normal professional, journalistic, academic,
or technical forms of literature, typically
identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the
use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.
He was an American novelist, essayist, literary critic and university professor. He is perhaps most noted for his novel Grendel, a retelling of the Beowulf myth from the monster's point of view.
→It is a retelling of part of the Old English poem Beowulf from the perspective of the antagonist, Grendel. In the novel, Grendel is portrayed as an antihero. The novel deals with finding meaning in the world, the power of literature and myth, and the nature of good and evil.
▲The Canterbury Tales - is a collection
of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle
English by Geoffrey
Chaucer.
The tales (mostly written in verse,
although some are in prose) are presented as part of a story-telling contest by a
group of pilgrims as
they travel together on a journey from London to Canterbury in order to visit
the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury Cathedral.
▽names of
places: 人們造飯埋骨群聚之所
A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Most of his fictional works were set in the semi-fictional region of Wessex. They explored tragic characters struggling against their passions and social circumstances.
▽Tess
of the d'Urbervilles: Though now
considered a
major nineteenth-century English novel and possibly Hardy's
fictional masterpiece, Tess of the d'Urbervilles received
mixed reviews when it first appeared, in part because it challenged the sexual morals of late Victorian England.
In Hardy's view, a truly good woman, she is
despised by society after losing her virginity before marriage.
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| Stonehenge |
At the end, when Tess and Angel come to Stonehenge,
which was commonly believed in Hardy's time to be a pagan temple, she willingly
lies down on a stone supposedly associated with human
sacrifice.
▲New Words
1.
magn-: “make it
big ”
magnum
opus - the Latin for
"great work", is the masterpiece, the greatest work of a writer,
artist, or composer.
→Picasso's
Guernica is considered by many to be his magnum opus.
magnate(n.)- a
person who is very rich and successful in business or industry
→a well-known
shipping magnate
magnanimous(adj.)- very
kind and generous towards an enemy or someone you have defeated
→Arsenal's
manager was magnanimous in victory, and praised the losing team.
2.
attend a
class/ a church
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