Unit 4 Exploring literature Reading 课件-2024-2025学年高中英语译林版（2020）必修第二册

The wonder of literature Predict what the article may talk about according to its title. Para.3 Para. 1 Para.2 Para.4 Para.5 Para.6 What’s the main idea of this passage? The passage is mainly about the ______________ of literature. wonder/qualities The description of truth and beauty Permanence of literature To enjoy and understand literature Summary The appeal to our feelings and imagination Read for the main idea of each paragraph Para 1 Para 2 Para 3 Para 4 Para 5 Para 6 Introduction Reading for structure Introduction to the topic (by the story of a child and a man) Body (three qualities of literature) Summary Part 1 (Paras. 1) Part 3 (Paras. 3–5) Part 4 (Para. 6) Part 2 (Paras. 2) Significance: the meaning of reading literature Paragraph 1 Read for details What did the child hear? Strange, low, musical sounds. How did the man explain what the child heard? He explained that the child heard nothing strange, and that the shell caught a range of sounds too faint for human ears. Paragraph 3-5 Read for details __________________ _____________________ (2)__________________ _____________________ Personal style (4)______________ Its permanence (3)________________ Its description of truth and beauty Its appeal to our feelings and imagination Universal interest Qualities of literature The structure of para. 3 The first quality of literature is its description of truth and beauty. Some truth and beauty remain unnoticed until a sensitive human soul brings them to our attention, just as the shell reflects the unnoticed sounds. A hundred men may pass a field and see only dead grass; but a poet stops, looks deeper, sees truth and beauty, and writes, “Yesterday’s flowers am I.” One who reads it is capable of seeing the beauty that was hidden from his eyes before. Opinion Reasoning Example Paragraph 3 Read for details How do you understand “Yesterday’s flowers am I”? A poet sees Common people see The dead grass may once have been blooming flowers. The poet wants to remind readers of the former glory of a thing, although it is going through a process of decline. Is para. 4 an ORE structure? The second quality of literature is its appeal to our feelings and imagination. Its attraction lies more in what it awakens in us than what it says. When Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus asks in the presence of Helen, “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?” he opens a door through which our imagination enters a new world, a world of love, beauty and heroism. Opinion Reasoning Example Paragraph 4 Read for details What is “the face that launched a thousand ships”? 知识拓展:Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe 《浮士德博士的悲剧》(Doctor Faustus)是英国作家克里斯托弗·马洛(Christopher Marlowe.1564-1593)的代表作。它是根据德国民间故事写成的。在这部作品中，浮士德把灵魂卖给魔鬼,交换条件是魔鬼要在此后的24年里满足浮士德所有求知的愿望，在魔鬼的帮助下,浮士德见到了绝代佳人海伦(Helen)。海伦是传说中最美丽的女人,历时十年的特洛伊战争即因她而爆发,文中的: a thousand ships指代特洛伊战争，本文作者通过这个例子来说明文学作品能够赋予读者无尽的想象。 Paragraph 5 Read for details Permanence Universal interest Personal style love and hate joy and sadness fear and hope How do you understand the two elements: universal interest and personal style ? Paragraph 6 Read for details What rhetorical device is used in this paragraph? Lavf60.16.100 Packed by Bilibili XCoder v2.0.2 Lavf60.16.100 Packed by Bilibili XCoder v2.0.2 $$