The notes of English..

--I serve my internship in 1990.

Intern  實習生

-- Oval 橢圓 (dome)

Dome: St. Peter’s squares

Oval house White house

 Words 

-- romance

As aliterary genreofhigh culture,romanceorchivalric romanceis a style of heroicproseandversenarrativethat was popular in the aristocratic circles ofHigh MedievalandEarly Modern Europe. They were fantastic stories about marvel-filledadventures, often of aknight errantportrayed as havingheroicqualities, who goes on aquest. Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but withironic,satiricorburlesqueintent. Romances reworkedlegends,fairy tales, and history to suit the readers' and hearers' tastes, but byc.1600 they were out of fashion, andMiguel de Cervantesfamously satirised them in his novelDon Quixote. Still,the modern image of "medieval"is more influenced by the romance than by any other medieval genre, and the wordmedievalinvokes knights, distressed damsels, dragons, and other romantic tropes.

-- Go for a walk

-- The Decameron  medieval allegorical

--   Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe(bornEdgar Poe, January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the AmericanRomantic Movement. Best known for his tales ofmysteryand themacabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of thedetective fictiongenre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre ofscience fiction.He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

About “ Allan ” → (also reflect Allan Poe: 古怪/離群索居)

He was born as Edgar Poe inBoston,Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, ofRichmond,Virginia, but they never formally adopted him.

• The philosophy of composition ( The death of beauty )

-- Puritans

ThePuritanswere a significant grouping of EnglishProtestantsin the16thand17th centuries. Puritanism in this sense was founded by someMarian exilesfrom the clergy shortly after the accession ofElizabeth I of Englandin 1558, as an activist movement within theChurch of England. The designation "Puritan" is often incorrectly used, notably based on the assumption thathedonismandpuritanismare antonyms: Historically, the word was used to characterize the Protestant group as extremists similar to theCathariofFrance, and according toThomas Fullerin hisChurch Historydated back to 1564, ArchbishopMatthew Parkerof that time used it and "precisian" with the sense of modern "stickler".

-- Christian people who believe in love

AChristianis a person who adheres toChristianity, an Abrahamic,monotheisticreligionbased on the life and teachings ofJesus of Nazarethas recorded in theCanonical gospelsand the letters of theNew Testament. "Christian" derives from theKoine GreekwordChrist, a translation of theBiblical HebrewtermMessiah.

-- 4 件隱私 : salary / gender (性向) / political / faith

Always ask yourself these 4 basic questions while you’re reading or in class:

1. Who am I?

I

The Rocking-Horse Winner

What does the mother feel toward her children and her husband?

The mother in “The Rocking-Horse Winner”
feels her children have

 Notes

-- sophomore: a student in the second year of a course of study at a college or university 

(from sophisticated)     (joke suffer more)

--adaptation: a film/movie, book or play that is based on a particular piece of work but that has been changed for a new situation 

 Words

-- trait = characteristic: very typical of something or of somebody's character

-- leading actor / actress: A leading actor, leading actress, star, or simply lead, plays the role of the protagonist in a film or play. 

←→ supporting actor / actress: A supporting actor performs roles in a play or movie other than that of protagonist. A female who performs these roles is usually referred to as a supporting actress.

-- forgetful: often forgetting things = Have a bad memory.

How to write essays?

--Express in detail

--Provide examples

--Contrast

Words

 Words

[ex-] out

--expire: of a document, an agreement, etc.to be no longer valid because the period of time for which it could be used has ended / to die

child abuse: the crime of harming a child in a physical, sexual or emotional
way
clairvoyance: the power that some people are believed to have to be able
to see future events or to communicate with people who are dead or far away

Word meaning

--metaphysical: pertaining to or of the nature of metaphysics.

--After-wit: Wisdomor perception that comes after it can be of use. (馬後砲)

--conceit: a clever or fancifulexpression in writing or speech that involves a comparison between two things (JohnDonne: A ValedictionForbidding Mourning.) ↔metaphorical (John Donne: The compass )(Far-fetched:comparison)

The compass