美式英语

　　英式英语和美式英语之间的差异常常会引发误解和尴尬。对于英语学习者来说这个问题尤其严重，例如：美国人在吃饭之前washup，意思是洗手，而英国人在吃饭之后才washup，意思是洗盘子。《美式英语》能让您的英语在英美两国通行无阻！本书按不同题目划分章节，各章包括：英/美词汇对照表图示习惯用语单词拼写小窍门语法指南还有“演练场”帮助您了解自己的学习进度，更有“知识点滴”专门介绍语言中的文化差异。

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Part One: Fiction I. Plot II. Character and Characterization III. Theme IV. Point of View V. Style, Tone, and Irony VI. Symbol Part Two: Poetry I. Tone and Speaker II. Diction III. Diction IV. Image and Symbol V. Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme VI. Rhythm and Meter VII. Closed Form and Open Form VIII. Types of Poetry Part Three: Drama I. Elements of Drama II. Types of Drama 参考书目 Part One: Fiction I. Plot Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour Irwin Shaw, The Girls in Their Summer Dresses II. Character and Characterization Kay Boyle, Astronomer''s Wife Alice Walker, Everyday Use III. Theme Sherwood Anderson, I Want to Know Why William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily IV. Point of View Ring Lardner, Haircut James Joyce, A Little Cloud V. Style, Tone, and Irony Ernest Hemingway, A Clean, Well- Lighted Place Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat VI. Symbol Katherine Mansfield, The Fly Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Part Two: Poetry I. Tone and Speaker A. E. Housman, the Loveliest of Trees Theodore Roethke, My Papa''s Waltz William Blake, The Chimney Sweeper Jonathan Swift, On Stella''s Birthday Robert Browning, My Last Duchess T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock II. Diction 1. Concrete and General 2. Formal and Informal 3. Denotation and Connotation William Carlos Williams, This Is Just to Say William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheel Barrow Wallace Stevens, Metamorphosis William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth, It Is a Beauteous Evening Al exander Pope, A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing Thomas Hardy, Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? William Blake, London Wallace Sevens, Disillusionment of Ten O'' Clock Robert Frost, Fire and Ice III. Figures of Speech 1. Simile and Metaphor 2. Personification and Apostrophe 3. Metonymy and Synecdoche 4. Hyperbole (Overstatement) and Understatement 5. Paradox and Pun Alfred Tennyson, The Eagle Sylvia Plath, Metaphors William Shakespeare, Shaal I Compare Thee to a Summer''s Day? Robert Burns, Oh, My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose Emily Dickinsion, It Dropped So Low - in My Regard Andrew Marvell, To His Coy mistress John Milton, Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint John Donne, Death Be Not Proud IV. Image and Symbol 1. Image 2. Symbol Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar H. D. , Heat Ann Stevenson, The Victory Emily Dickinson, I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died Walt Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider William Blake, The Sick Rose Rober Frost , The Road Not Taken T.S. Eliot, The Boston Evening Transcript Christina Rossetti, Uphill William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming V. Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme 1. Alliteration and Assonance 2. Rhyme William Shakespeare, Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies William Shakespeare, Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley, To -- Alfred Tennyson, Splendor Falls on Castle Walls Gerard Manley Hopkins, God''s Grandeur Philip Larkin, Toads Revisited VI. Rhythm and Meter 1. Rhythm 2. Meter John Donne, Song George Herbert, Virtue Alfred Tennyson, The Oak A. E. Housman, When I Was One-and-Twenty A. E. Housman, Oh, Who Is That Young Sinner Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Sowy Evening Thomas Hardy, The Voice VII. Closed Form and Open Form 1. Closed Form 2. Open Form 3. Poems for the Eye William Shakespeare, To Be or Not to Be Samuel Johnson, On What Foundation Stands Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle into That Godd Night Robert Herrick, To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 75 John Keats, On First Looking into Chapman''s Homer Walt Whitman, With Music Strong I Come Seamus Heaney, Digging E. E. Cummings, L ( a E. E. Cummings, Me Up At Does VIII. Types of Poetry 1. Epic 2. Ballad 3. Pastoral 4. Lyric 5. Ode 6. Satire 7. Elegy Virgil, I Sing of Warfare Anonymous, The Wife of Usher''s Well Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Thomal Hardy, In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" Robert Frost, Nothing Gold Can Stay Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind Jonathan Swife, We All Behold with Envious Eyes Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Part Three: Drama I. Elements of Drama II. Types of Drama Susan Glaspell, Trifles Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman