Unit 1

1. Unit 1 • Why should we read literature? • What type of text are considered literature? • A discussion on literacy Genres based on Analysis of Excerpt 1-6 • A comparison between Upon Westminster Bridge by W. WordsWorth and A Farewell to Cambridge by Xu Zhimo.

2. Unit 2 • The definition of theme • The four ways authors use to state their ideas • What is the theme of “Trees”and “Fable” • A Red,Red Rose and Auld Lang Syne : the theme , image, poetic form, rhyme • What is the theme of “The Seven Ages of Man”? Why do you think the author portraits such ridiculous images of human beings? • What images does Shakespeare use to illustrate seven stages of a man’s life? • Themes and Oppositions of the story “Hearts and Hands”?

3. Unit 3 • Three different ways presenting characterization • Do you think Jane Eyre is a round character or a flat one? Give your reasons to support your view? • Do you think Scrooge in Christmas Carol by Dickinson is a stock character? Give your reasons to support your view. • Give the definition of “character”or “characterization”

4. Unit 4 • The definition of setting , scenario , flashback, voice-over. • Discuss the scenarios in Task 3 and Task 7, Activity 1. • Describe the terrible scene of Act I of Macbeth.Give some analysis on how the setting here create the atmosphere of the whole play. • How does the author develop a character in “The Importance of Being Ernest”

5. Unit 5 • Write a short piece on the story of “A Horseman in the sky” and “Hamlet” • Give the definition of conflict, climax, plot , four types of conflict • Give at least four different types of conflict in literary works. • Discuss the following aspects of “A Horseman in the sky” : the setting , the characters , the theme, the conflict, the climax. • How does the war, the country and the father-son relationship serve as conflicting elements in “The Horseman in the sky”? • Why does Hamlet think that to be or not to be is a question?

6. Unit 6 • The definition : point of view , irony, persona, the omniscient point of view • Where does the meaning of a literary text originate? And why? • Analyze the implied meaning of the poem“A Day”and the theme,the tone of voice. • Mark Twain’s Irony in Advice to Youth. • Is the Narrator of a story the Author of the story? • Why so we say that any truth in literature is a subjective truth?

7. Unit 7 • Definition: plot, tension, cartoon, chronological order, Exposition, Elaboration, Climax, Denouement, in medias res , open ending, short story,a strip cartoon. • Discuss the four divisions of the literary narration analysis. • Discuss Open Ending and In Medias Res, giving examples to explain them to your classmate. • The Tension Built in “The Demon Lover” • Write the plot of “ The Demon lover”

8. Unit 8 • Four black characters I read in Unit Eight . • What’s your idea about literature? • “literature makes a difference.” what does it mean? • Give the definition: literature as a mirror of society , the value of literature. • Discuss the ides of industrialization and urbanization reflected in the poem “Town and Country” by Cowper.