No Signposts in the Sea

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Lesson 15Speaker: 张丽娜 Partner: 郭晓霞 秦悦

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

1. the first person 2. For the syntax(句法 结构): Loose sentence(松散句) 3. Rhetorical Devices 4. Stream of consciousness

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

the first person The author used the first person to describe the psychological changes of a dying man---Edmund Carr I ----in the form of a journal True and natural revelation of his true love for Laura. Treat readers as his close friends and confide his secret

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Loose Sentence A loose sentence put the main idea before all supplementary information. In other words, it put first things first, And let the reader know what it is mainly about when he has read the first few words. 并列句都是松散句，主句在前的复合句都 是松散句。

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Loose Sentence Loose sentences are the most natural for English speakers, who always talk in loose sentence. Loose sentences may make a work seem informal, relaxed and conversational. It very easy to loose control of a loose sentence.

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Periodic Sentence A periodic sentence: The main idea is expressed at or near the end of it. At it is not grammatically complete until the end is reached. It can be useful for making an important point or for a special dramatic effect. The reader does not know what it is mainly about until he finishes reading it.

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

The Difference Between Loose Sentences and Periodic Sentence Loose sentences are easer, simpler, more natural and direct. Periodic sentences are more complex, emphatic, formal or literary. A. You can’t make great progress in English without good study habits. B. Without good study habits, you can’t make great progress in English. Sentence A and sentence B are semantically ( 语义) same, but different in structure.

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Loose Sentences in Our Text I can observe her without her knowing, and this gives me pleasure, for it is as in a moving picture that I can note the grace of her gestures, whether she raises a glass of her neighbours or takes a cigarette from her case with those slender fingers.(Para 1) At the beginning of the sentence we have the main idea and then it describes Laura’s every move in more detail. This expresses that I’m suffering from my calf-love with Laura.

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Loose Sentences in Our Text When all my fellow-passengers have finally dispersed to bed, I creep up again to the deserted deck and slip into the swimming pool and float, no longer what people believe to be…with a god for his father and a vision of the world inspired from Olympus.(Para 5)

At the beginning of the sentence we have the main idea and the part of “no longer…” follows supplementary information and

explanation. Now I’m not a journalist, but like an Endymion. It expresses my feelings, free, relaxed and liberated.

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Loose Sentences in Our Text What’s more, the natural scenery and the psychological description is a great characteristic of this article, and loose sentences can make t

he language natural, relaxing, informal and conversational. Loose sentence is also suitable for Stream of consciousness. It helps the narrator(I) to narrate his interior monologue. 使用松散句一般没有高潮起伏，句子平稳发展。 松散句主要用来轻松自然地表达作者一连串的思 想，或者罗列事实，这些思想或事实同等重要。 读起来较为轻松自如。

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Rhetorical Devices metonymy: …he says he used to read me. metaphor:…the winepink width of water merging into lawns(wide strips of bluish-green water) of aquanmarine… alliteration: clear of cloud personification: The moon becomes a virgin, while the stars are her lovers, which arouses the reader’s reverie and feel that beauty lies everywhere in the life. Analogy(类比)

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

analogy Analogy is also a form of comparison, but unlike simile or metaphor, which usually concentrates on one point of resemblance, analogy draws a parallel between unlike things that have several common qualities or points of resemblance. ( things are alike in several/many respects)

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Stream of consciousness The stream-of-consciousness novel commonly uses the narrative techniques of interior monologue where novelists describe the unspoken thoughts and feelings of their characters without resorting to objective description or conventional dialogue.

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Probably the most famous example is James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), a complex evocation of the inner states of the characters Leopold and Molly Bloom and Stephen Daedalus. Other notable examples include Leutnant Gustl (1901) by Arthur Schnitzler, an early use of stream of consciousness to re-create the atmosphere of pre-World War I Vienna; and William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury (1929), which records the fragmentary and impressionistic responses in the minds of three members of the Compson family to events that are immediately being experienced or events that are being remembered.

No Signposts in the Sea 的写作风格介绍

Narrative technique in non-dramatic fiction intended to render the flow of myriad impressions—visual, auditory, physical, associative, and subliminal— that impinge on the consciousness of an individual and form part of his awareness along with the trend of his rational thoughts. The term was first used by the psychologist William James in The Principles of Psycholo …… 此处隐藏：3786字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……