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Mark Twain---Mirror of America. Advanced English. Unit 9. Book 1. Pre-reading questions Background knowledge Macro-structure of the text Detailed Study of the text Rhetoric devices Follow-up discussion Exercise and homework. Pre-reading Questions How do you understand the title?

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  1. Mark Twain---Mirror of America Advanced English Unit 9 Book 1

  2. Pre-reading questions • Background knowledge • Macro-structure of the text • Detailed Study of the text • Rhetoric devices • Follow-up discussion • Exercise and homework

  3. Pre-reading Questions • How do you understand the title? • What do you know about Mark Twain?

  4. Mirror 1. “Mirror” here means a person who gives a true representation or description of the country. 2. Generally speaking, all literary giants in human history are also great historians, thinkers and philosophers. Their works often reveal more truth than many political essays. 3. Mark Twain was one of these giants, and his life and works are a mirror of America of his time.

  5. Mark Twain Advanced English • Real Name • Meaning • Life • Works • Assessment

  6. Early life experience • Boy in a little town in Mississippi • At 11, he lost his father • At 13, he stopped schooling • Tramp printer • Steamboat pilot on the Mississippi • Confederate guerrilla • Prospector • Reporter on the far western frontier • Traveler abroad

  7. The Prince and the Pauper • The Cop and the Anthem • Running for Governor • The £1,000,000 Bank-Note • The Innocents Abroad • The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County • The Gilded Age

  8. His Misfortunes • Financial difficulties • Personal tragedies his father his brother his two-daughters his son his wife

  9. A Brief Assessment Remarks: Mark Twain is a part of America. His personal success and failure were those of America. He moved, along with America, from innocence to experience. Ernest Hemingway : All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. ... There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

  10. Macro-structure Advanced English

  11. Rhtorical Devices • Metaphor • Simile • Hyperbole • Parallelism • Personification • Antithesis • Euhemism • Alliteration • Metonymy • synecdoche

  12. Questionsfor Discussion • Why is Mark Twain one of America’s best-loved authors? • Give a brief account of Mark Twain’s experience before he became a writer. •  When did Mark Twain become a pilot on a steamboat? • What story did he write that made him known as “the wild humorist of the Pacific slope”?

  13. Written Homework • Why does the writer consider Mark Twain a mirror of America？

  14. References • http://www.jpkc.cq.edu.cn/ChongQ_2004_dxyy/kj/tl/tl2/index.htm • http://blog.hjenglish.com/cxchun/articles/403413.html • http://www.fync.edu.cn:8080/2006jpkc/ll2/jiaoan.asp • 《高级英语》学习指南 第一册 • 《高级英语》教师用书 第一册 • 《马克·吐温》by Frorrest G. Robinson， 上海外语教育出版社。 • Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. • Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

  15. Thank you!

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