Love Is a Fallacy课后习题答案

Ⅱ. B. Questions on Structure and Style:

1. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that logic, far from being a dry, pedantic subject, is a living, breathing thing, full of beauty, passion, and trauma. Logic may be an interesting subject. The writer is exaggerating for the sake of humor. The writer employs a whole variety of writing techniques to make his story vivid, dramatic and colorful. The lexical spectrum is colorful from the ultra learned terms used by the conceited narrator to the infra clipped vulgar forms of Polly Espy. He uses figurative language profusely and also grammatic inversion for special emphasis. The speed of the narration is maintained by the use of short sentences, elliptical sentences and dashes throughout the story. This mix adds to the realism of the story.

2. The topic sentence of paragraph 47 is : He was a torn man. The writer develops the idea expressed in the topic sentence by describing vividly how hard it is for Petey Burch to choose between his girlfriend and raccoon coat. Being very observant and superbly to illustrative examples to develop the theme, the writer successfully to brings forth the scene in which Petey Burch’s desire for the raccoon coat waxes and his resolution not to give his girlfriend wanes. The reader can easily come to the conclusion that it is hard and painful decision for him to make.

3. The narrator refers to Pygmalion and Frankenstein because just as Pygmalion loved the perfect woman he fashioned, the narrator loved Polly Espy, who he had fashioned according to his plan. However, when he begged Polly’s love, he was rejected. He got same result as Frankenstein, who created a monster that destroyed him. In this sense, these allusion are chosen aptly. The whole thing backfired on the narrator when Polly employed all the “logical fallacies” she had been taught to reject his offer. The end of story finds that the narrator has got what he deserves. He has been too clever for his own. 4. An example of simile

My brain was as powerful as dynamo,as precise as a chemist’s scales, as penetrating as a scalpel.(comparing his brain to three different things)(para. 1) An example of metaphor

There follows an informal essay that ventures even beyond lamb’s frontier.(comparing the limitation set by lamb to a frontier)(author’s note) An example of hyperbole

It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect.(hyperbole for effect)(para. 2) An example of metonymy

Otherwise you have committed a Dicto Simpliciter.(Otherwise you have committed a logical fallacy called a “Dicto Simpliciter”.)(para. 70) An example of antithesis

It is, after all, easier to make a beautiful dumb girl smart than to make a ugly smart girl beautiful.(“beautiful, dumb and smart” are balanced against “ugly, smart and beautiful”)(para.24) 5. Colloquialisms and used in the text: dumb, pin-up, kid, go steady, date, casual kick, well-heeled, laughs, terrific, magnificent, mad, call it a night, yummy, fire away. Darn.

Slang used in the text: nothing upstairs, keen, dal, knock (oneself) out, dreamy, how cute,rat, knot head, jitterbug.

6.A freshman at a law school is made the narrator of the whole stroy. It’s from his point of view that the stroy is told. Since the whole stroy is presented as his personal experiences, we the readers tend to rely on what narrator tells us.

Ⅲ. Paraphrase

1. He is a nice enough young fellow, you know, but he is empty-headed.

2. A passing fashion or craze, in my opinion, shoes a complete lack of reason.

3. I ought to have known that raccoon coat would come back to fashion when the Charleston dance, which was popular in the 1920s, came back

4. All the important and fashionable men on campus are wearing them. How come you don’t know?

5. My brain, which is a precision instrument, began to work at a high speed. 6. Except for one thing (intelligence) polly had all other requirements.

7. She was not as beautiful as those girls in posters but i felt sure she would become beautiful enough after some time.

8. In fact, she was in the opposite direction, that is, she is not intelligent but rather stupid.

9. If you are no longer involved with her (if you stop dating her) others would be free to compete to get her as a girlfriend.

10. His head turned back and forth (looking at the coat then looking away from the coat). Every time he looked his desire for the coat grew stronger and his resolution not to give away polly become weaker.

11. To teach her to think appeared to be rather big task.

12. One must admit the outcome does not look very hopeful, but i decided to try one more time.

13. There is a limit to what any human being can bear.

14. I planned to be Pygmalion, to fashion an ideal wife for myself, but i turned out to be Frankenstein because polly(the result/product of my hard work) ultimately rejected me and ruined my plan.15. Desperately i tried to stop the feeling of panic that was overwhelming me.

Ⅳ. Practice with words and expressions

A.

1. dynamo: a machine that changes some other form of power directly into electricity 2. flight : fleeing or running away from

3. Charleston: a lively dance in 4/4 time, characterized by a twisting step and popular during the 1920's

4. shed: cast off or lose hair

5. in the swim: conforming to the current fashions or active in the main current of affairs 6. practice: the exercise of a profession of occupation

7.pin-up: (American colloquialism)designating a girl whose sexual attractiveness makes her a subject for the kind of pictures often pinned up on walls

8. makings: the material or qualities needed for the making or development of something

9. carriage: manner of carrying the head and body; physical posture bearing: way of carrying oneself; manner

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