第 一 课 The Middle Eastern Bazaar 中 东 的 集 市 一 . Writing Style A description is painting a picture in words of a person, place, object, or scene
A description is generally developed through sensory details, or the impressions of one’s senses --- sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch
二. Rhetoric [ˈretə rik] 修辞 1
Personification: an act of personifying sth that is without life 人格拟人化 2
Hyperbole: overstate or exaggerate sth
in order to make it sound bigger, smaller, better, worse, etc
than it really is
Metaphor:a word or phrase used in an imaginative way to describe sb\sth else,in order to show that the two things have the same qualities to make the description more powerful
onomatopoeia: the fact of words containing sounds similar to the noises they describe
拟声,拟声法 三. Words and