大学思辨英语说明文写作 language and identity答案
Activity 5
Read Text A and Text B and find more examples of concrete language and figurative language. Then discuss their functions with your partner.
Activity 6
The following sentences are developed from the sentence Sheila replied,“I don’tknow where he is.”With different concrete details, Sheila becomes different kindsof person.Discuss with your partner your understanding of what kind of personSheila is in each context.shudder
1) Sheila rolled her eyes and sighed loudly, then threw up her hands in exasperation and replied curtly, “I don’t know where he is.”
Sheila was quick-tempered.
2) Staring blankly out of the window, Sheila exhaled softly, closed her eyes for a moment and replied, “I don’t know where he is.”
Sheila was gentle.
3) Sheila stared at her mother, teary-eyed, shuddering with fear, and sobbingly replied, “I don’t know where he is.”
Sheila was timid /fearful.
4) Sheila continued to pass the items over the scanner, staring down at the counter, and without even looking at the customer, replied indifferently, “I don’t know where he is.”
Sheila was impolite.
Activities 7-8
Suggestions for instructors:
These two activities would help students to practice the characterization skills as well as characterization through concrete and/or figurative language.We suggest that the teacher could ask students to work on the two activities themselves first. If in class, the teacher could ask students to select one task from each activity and work in pair about 10 minutes. Then the teacher could ask students to share their work and arrange the whole class to appreciate their writing.
More examples for Activity 8
The old woman looked old and sad.
A.
When I came out of the train, I heard someone sobbing. I headed towards the direction whereby the sobbing came from. I spotted an old woman with wrinkled skin and silver hair. She had teeth that had yellowed with age. She also looked miserable and gloomy. The old woman was sitting in a humid corner whereby no one cared about her. As I went
closer to her, I could see tears streaming down her face. I realized that she was hunched-back. I could tell from her appearance that she was a burden to her family.
B.
The frail-looking lady inched forward like she only had a limited space to move her feet. From a far distance, I could see her wrinkled skin and her teeth that had yellowed with age. She looked cheerless with sunken eyes and cheeks. Her sinewy hands looked like she had worked hard for many years. She looked really feeble and seemed like she could not even swat a fly without missing it. Her silvery hair was no longer bright and shiny, but instead it was dull. Her face was gloomy and her smile was gone. She hunched her back and took a couple of steps forward. She looked up in dismay and sighed.
If time permits, the instructor can ask students to work in groups and list five ways to show that a person is sad, or angry or happy.
For example:
On entering the door I remembered the doll I had broken. I felt my way to the hearth and picked what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.—The Story of My Life —The Diamond Necklace
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She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister’s arms.—The Story of an Hour
After Harry Potter’s parents were killed, baby Harry was put onto the doorsteps of his uncle and aunt which made Hagrid, Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore sad:
For a full minute the three of them stood and looked at the little bundle; —Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone Harry.– (Fred was killed and Hermione was sad, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows)
Hermione Before Harry could say or do anything, she tucked the enormous ran toward the staircase to the girls’ dormitories and out of sight.—Harry Potter and the Prisoner of A
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face as low as possible, wiping them off on his robes, pretending to do up his shoelace, so that Lupin wouldn't see.–Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“You may rest assured that she will be punished,” Mr. Crouch added coldly.
“M-m-master…” Winky stammered, looking up at Mr. Crouch, “M-m-master, p-p-please…”—Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
—Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Master Barty, you bad boy!” whispered Winky, tears trickling between her fingers.
  —Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

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