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1、Lesson Four Everyday Use -Alice Walker Lectured by Luo Zaixiangl1. About the authorl2. Her workslThe Thrid Life of Grange Copeland (1970) Meridian (1976)lA biography of Langston Hughes (1973) lA volume of poetry Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems (1973) lA collection of short stories In Love and
2、 Trouble: Stories of Black Women (1973) lThe Temple of My Familiar (1989) lThe Color Purplel3. “Everyday Use“ l4. Rhetorical devices lHyperbaton, e.g. stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scarsl Metaphor, e.g. has held life always in the palm of one handl Hyperbole, e.g. “no”
3、is word the world never learns to say to her.l lRhetorical question, e.g. What would they do if parent and child. insult each other?lMetonymy, e.g. with one foot raised in flight, with my head turned in whichever way is farthest from them.lEnumeratio, e.g. She used to read to us without pity; forcin
4、g words, lies, other folks habits, whole lives upon us twolTransferred epithet, e.g. mossy teeth in an earnest facelSimile, e.g. hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail.lInnuendo, e.g. They already belonged to her.lPleonasm, e.g. above the tip of her nose and her chin.l5. Genre of writing lNarr
5、ation (a story or a short novel)l6. Style of writing linformal/casual; subtle, personal, concrete l7. Theme lRe-meeting Dee and the quilt episode;lThe problem of black heritagel8. Issues involvedlCultural heritage l9.Questions for discussionl1) What are the differences between Maggie and her sister?l2) What kind of the person do you think is the woman?l3) Why do they struggle for the quilts? l4) What do their attitudes tell us? l10. Detailed study of the text
