内容正文:
To show,not to tell
A technique in continuation writing
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By Wei Ying
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Show the readers everything,
tell them nothing.
--Ernest Hemingway
Don’t tell me the moon is shining.
Show me the glint (闪光)
of light on broken glass.
--Anton Chechove
Version 1:
One woman fell down, got up, and then walked away sadly.
Version 2:
After a while, a group of women came along, each balancing a pot of water on her head. One woman tripped over the stone and her water pot went crashing to the ground. She picked herself up and limped away in tears.
--B3U2 The Stone on the Road
Read and Compare
Tell
Show
To Tell: give us information
To Show: help us form pictures in our mind through details.
How?
What is “to show” ?
After a while, a group of women came along, each balancing a pot of water on her head. One woman tripped over the stone and her water pot went crashing to the group. She picked herself up and limped away in tears.
--B3U2 The Stone on the Road
How to show (1)
... So early one cold winter morning, she set out to a distant town. After four hours of struggling through snow, she found the town and quikly bundled (捆扎)her new samovar into her sack and hurried home...
--B2U4 Samovar-the Special Teaport
Strategy 1: Use specific action verbs
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To tell :
I missed the school bus.
To show:
I ______ down the road, wildly _______ my hands, and ______, “Stop, stop!”, but the bus travelled on without stopping. With m