Anton Chekhov- "The Lady with the Dog"
"The Lady with the Dog" is a short story by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. It tells the story of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady he meets while vacationing in Yalta. The story comprises four parts: part Ⅰ describes the initial meeting in Yalta, part Ⅱ the consummation of the affair and the remaining time in Yalta, part Ⅲ Gurov's return to Moscow and his visit to Anna's town, and part Ⅳ Anna's visits to Moscow. Vladimir Nabokov declared that it was one of the greatest short stories ever written.
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Huck Finn.
Huckleberry "Huck" Finn is a fictional character created by Mark Twain who first appeared in the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and is the protagonist and narrator of its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. He is 12 or 13 years old during the former and a year older ("thirteen or fourteen or along there," Chapter 17) at the time of the latter. Huck also narrates Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective, two shorter sequels to the first two books.
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Narration.
Narration is the use of-or the particularly chosen methodology or process (also called the narrative mode) of using-a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration encompasses a set of techniques through which the creator of the story presents their story, including:
- Narrative point of view: the perspective (or type of personal or non personal"lens") through which a story is communicated.
- Narrative voice: the format (or type presentational form) through which a story is communicated.
- Narrative time: the placement of the story's time-frame in the past, the present, or the future.
Epistolary.
An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of documents. The usual form is letters, although diary entries, newspaper clippings and other documents are sometimes used. Recently, electronic "documents" such as recordings and radio, blogs, and e-mails have also come into use. The epistolary form can add greater realism to a story, because it mimics the workings of real life.
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Finding Forrester - Sean Connery
Finding Forrester is a 2000 American drama film written by Mike Rich and directed by Gus Van Sant. An African- American teenager, Jamal Wallace (Rob Brown), is invited to attend a prestigious private high school. By chance, Jamal befriends a reclusive writer, William Forrester (Sean Connery), through whom he refines his talent for writing and comes to team with his identity, Anna Paquin, F. Murray Abraham, Michael Pitt, Glenn Fitzgerald, April Grace and Busta Rhymes star in supporting roles.
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Rudyard Kipling.
Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865- 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short story writer, poet, and novelist. Kliping's works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899), and "If-" (1910).Kliping was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Coming of Age.
In genre studies, a coming of age story is a genre of literature and film that focuses on the growth of a protagonist from youth to adulthood ("coming of age"). Coming of age stories tend to emphasize dialogue or internal monologue over action, and are often set in the past. The subjects of coming of age stories are typically teenagers. The buildungsroman is a specific subgenre of coming of age story. It is especially prominent in literature and focuses on the protagonist's psychological and moral growth, and thus character change is extremely important.
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Vocabulary.
1. Emancipated: 被解放的
2. Literacy: 讀寫能力，精通文學
3. Affair: 事情，事務；私事
4. Consummate: 完美的，圓滿的
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