Unit One "On Doors"by Christopher Darlington Morley

Literary Device:Symbol（象征）

Composition Guide:Achieving Coherence

Further Reading: "A Letter to Father Time(New Year's Eve)"by Christopher Darlington Morley

Unit Two "On Goinga Journey"by William Hazlitt

Literary Device:Rhetorical Question（修辞性问句）

Composition Guide:Position Defending

FurtherReading: "Going Out for a Walk"by Max Beerbohm

Unit Three "A Piece of Chalk"by G.K. Chesterton

Literary Device:Hyperbole/Exaggeration（夸张）

Composition Guide:Narrating and Reflecting

Further Reading:"On Running After One's Hat"by G.K. Chesterton

Unit Four "ARelic"by Max Beerbohm

Literary Device:Allusion（引喻）

Composition Guide:Narrative Point of View

Further Reading:"They All Just Went Away"by Joyce Carol Oates

Unit Five "On Lying Awake at Night"by Stewart Edward White

Literary Device:Personification（拟人）

Composition Guide:Description

Further Reading:"Niagara Falls"by Rupert Brooke

Unit Six "Rude Am I in My Speech"by Caryl Phillips

Literary Devices:Metaphor and Simile（隐喻与明喻）

Composition Guide:Compare and Contrast

Further Reading:"Do He Have Your Number,Mr. Jeffrey?"by Gayle Pemberton

Unit Seven "About Face"by Joseph Epstein

Literary Device:Transferred Epithet（移就）

Composition Guide:Paragraph Development

Further Reading:"My Face"by Robert Bentley

Unit Eight "La Paz"by Jan Morris

Literary Device:Rhyme（押韵）

Composition Guide:Travel Essay

Further Reading:"Pamplona in July"by Ernest Hemingway

Unit Nine "Grieving"by Meenakshi Gigi Durham

Literary Device:Humor（幽默）

Composition Guide:FreeAssociation

Further Reading:"Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?"by Mark Edmundson

UnitTen "Trivia"by Logan Pearsall Smith

Literary Device:Epiphany（顿悟）

Composition Guide:Ironic Turn of Meaning

Further Reading:"The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"by Samuel Butler

Unit Eleven "Thomas Hobbes"by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

Literary Devices:Metonymy and Synecdoche（换喻与提喻）

Composition Guide:Biographical Essay

Further Reading:"William James"by John Jay Chapman

Unit Twelve "Disaster Always Waits on Early Wit"by Samuel Johnson

Literary Device:Parallelism（排比）

Composition Guide:Semantic or Concept Map

Further Reading:"Domestick greatness unattainable"by Samuel Johnson

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