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1. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. The play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet is called on to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet , and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature.

***Shakespeare's four mainly tragedies:  Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth

2. The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests and mountains (or fells) and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets.

5. Charles Lamb was an English writer and essayist , best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare.He also wrote a number of poems, and was part of a literary circle in England, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, whom he befriended. He has been referred to by E. V . Lucas , his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".

6. The Holiday is a romantic comedy film written, starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean , who temporarily exchange homes to escape heartbreak during the holiday season . Jude Law and Jack Black are the movie's leading men , with Eli Wallach , Shannyn Sossamon , Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell playing key supporting roles.

7. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

8. Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.Children's literature can be traced to stories and songs, part of a wider oral tradition , that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience.

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9. Halloween, also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day . It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.

10. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern .

11. Miss Potter movie reflection

(1) Do you love the story?Why or why not?

     I like this story because it describes the journey that Miss Potter pursues her dream and the stories between her and men are romantic and interesting.

(2)Which character or episode impress you most?

     Potter's mother impress me most. Although she wants to protect  her daughter, but the behavior that she always obstructs Norman Warne and Potter's amour really makes me unhappy.

12. No preservatives, no artificial flavor. 無添加物，無人工香料

1. In Greek mythology , Medea is a sorceress who was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason , with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea , Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce . The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by killing their children.

2. Miss Potter is a 2006 English-American biographical fiction family drama film directed by Chris Noonan . It is a biographical film of children's author and illustrator Beatrix Potter , and combines stories from her own life with animated sequences featuring characters from her stories, such as Peter Rabbit .

The story begins with Beatrix Potter nervously packing her portfolio and narrating that she is a London spinster, and that her ambition to become a children's author meets with wide disapproval. She and her chaperone, Miss Wiggin, visit the publishing house of the Warne brothers and they decide to publish her book.

3. “There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you."--Beatrix Potter

4. I don't have the aptiitude to play card. 我不太會打牌

1. An onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "miaow" (or "meow"), "roar" or "chirp". 

2. An epistolary novel (書信體小說) 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.It is thus able to demonstrate differing points of view without recourse to the device of an ominiscient narrator.

3. Henry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the novel Tom Jones.

Aside from his literary achievements, he has a significant place in the history of law-enforcement, having founded (with his half-brother John) what some have called London's first police force, the Bow Street Runners, using his authority as a magistrate.

4. The Sorrows of Young Werther (少年維特的煩惱) is an epistolary , loosely autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was an important novel of the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement in literature.

5. Peter Rabbit is a fictional anthropomorphic character in various children's stories by Beatrix Potter . He first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902 and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912. Spinoff merchandise includes dishes, wallpaper, and dolls. He appears as a character in a number of adaptations.

6. Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist , and conservationist best known for her imaginative children's books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit, which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

7. Don't get into mischief. =>不要倒蛋

8. 18C中後期-->中產階級-->女性閱讀

1. Freytag's Pyramid

2. What’s in a name?That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (from Romeo and Juliet)

名稱有什麼關係呢？玫瑰不叫玫瑰，依然芳香如故。

* Romeo and Juliet

The play Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.

3. Charlotte 名言佳句

(1) "The pig couldn't help being born small, could it? If I had been small at birth, would you have killed me?"--by Fern Arable

(2) "Salutations!"--by Charlotte 

(3) "Fern spends entirely too much time in the Zuckermans' barn. It doesn't seem normal."--by Mrs. Arable

(4) "I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everybody said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle." --by Dr. Dorian

(5) "I have decided to take the pig to the County Fair on September sixth. Make the crate large and paint it green with gold letters!"--by Mr. Zuckerman

(6) "We're staying quietly-ietly-ietly at home. Only Wilbur-ilbur-ilbur is going to the Fair."--by  the goose.

(7) "I am going to give that pig a buttermilk bath." --by Mrs. Zuckerman

(8)"Sure I'm a spring pig. What did you think I was, a spring chicken?"--Uncle 

(9) "Please, please, please, Templeton, climb up and get the egg sac."--by Wilbur 

Charlotte's Web 夏綠蒂的網

 It is a children's novel by American author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams.

 E. B. White

Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. He also wrote books for children, including Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, an accomplishment repeated in earlier surveys.

 Characters in Charlotte's Web

1. Wilbur is a rambunctious pig, the runt of his litter. He is often strongly emotional.

2. Charlotte A. Cavatica, or simply Charlotte, is a spider who befriends Wilbur. In some passages she is the heroine of the story.

3. Templeton is a rat who helps Charlotte and Wilbur only when offered food. He serves as a somewhat caustic, self-serving comic relief to the plot.

4. Fern Arable, John's daughter, who adopts Wilbur in his infancy, and later visits him. She is the only human in the story capable of understanding nonhuman conversation.

5. Other animals in Zuckerman’s barn, with whom Wilbur converses, are a disdainful lamb, a talkative goose, and an intelligent "old sheep".

 keep / break / make + a promise

1. Alan Alexander Milne was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various children's poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II.

2. Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional anthropomorphic teddy bearcreated by English author A. A . Milne. The first collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh (1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six(1927). All four volumes were illustrated by E. H . Shepard .

3. beautiful soup (by Lewis Carroll)

Beautiful Soup

BEAUTIFUL Soup, so rich and green, 
Waiting in a hot tureen! 
Who for such dainties would not stoop? 
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! 
Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!

Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! 
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! 
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, 
Beautiful, beautiful Soup!

Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, 
Game, or any other dish? 
Who would not give all else for two 
Pennyworth only of Beautiful Soup? 
Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup?

Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! 
Beau--ootiful Soo-oop! 
Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, 
Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EtcXYGlWLk

4. John Denver "Toady"

Today
Lyrics：Randy Sparks
Music：Randy Sparks

Today while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrows shall all pass away
Ere I'll forget all the joy that is mine today

I'll be a dandy, and I'll be a rover
You'll know who I am by the songs that I sing
I'll feast at your table, I'll sleep in your clover
Who cares what tomorrow shall bring

Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine

A million tomorrows shall all pass away
Ere I'll forget all the joy that is mine, today

I can't be contented with yesterday's glory
I can't live on promises winter to spring
Today is my moment, now is my story
I'll laugh and I'll cry and I'll sing

Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine
I'll taste your strawberries, I'll drink your sweet wine
A million tomorrows shall all pass away
Ere I forget all the joy that is mine today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iPI_ZqlFWU

5. An ass eating thistles: Developed by authors during Renaissance times, the story of an ass eating thistles was a late addition to collections of Aesop's Fables. Beginning as a condemnation of miserly behaviour, it eventually was taken to demonstrate how preferences differ.

6. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

7. Nonsense is a communication, via speech, writing, or any other symbolic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. Sometimes in ordinary usage, nonsense is synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets,novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to illustrating a point about language or reasoning.

8. An onomatopoeia is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes.Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. 

1. Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.

http://www.taleswithmorals.com/

2. Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is best remembered for his fairy tales. Andersen's popularity is not limited to children; his stories, called eventyr in Danish or "fairy-tales" in English, express themes that transcend age and nationality. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages. Some of his most famous fairy tales include "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Little Mermaid", "The Nightingale", "The Snow Queen", "The Ugly Duckling", and many more.

The Emperor's New Clothes

The Little Mermaid

The Nightingale

The Snow Queen

The Ugly Duckling

3. A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.

4. As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. Allegory has been used widely throughout history in all forms of art, largely because it can readily illustrate complex ideas and concepts in ways that are comprehensible or striking to its viewers, readers, or listeners.

5. The Princess and the Pea is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a young woman whose royal identity is established by a test of her physical sensitivity. 

6. 文學有什麼用? (What is Literature for?)

https://tw.voicetube.com/videos/21112

7. The function of the writer is to make sense out of life understanding.

8. Literature is not expected to reform but to help us understand.

9. I am black and blue all over my body.(瘀青)

1. Paragraph

    * indent or skip a line

    * one paragraph one central idea

    * all other ideas directly relates to main idea

    * any length 

    * details-why important

                 -reasons

                 -examples

     * flow-bridges

     * end with bridge

2. VoiceTube

3. Death of a Salesman is a 1949 play written by American playwright Arthur Miller. Death of a Salesman is often numbered on the short list of being among the finest American plays in the 20th century alongside Long Day's Journey into Night and A Streetcar Named Desire.

4. Arthur Asher Miller was a prolific American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible and A View from the Bridge.

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5. The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, a set of ideals in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

6. catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical crime drama film

7. Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as verbal communication) and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.

8. A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, whereas parables have human characters. A parable is a type of analogy.

9. A shipping clerk is the person in charge of processing outgoing shipments in a distribution or shipping and receiving department. 

10. mock: the act of mocking or ridiculing; imitate with mockery and derision

 e.g. He screwed his face into an expression of mock pain.

1. Shakespeare's four mainly tragedies:  Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth

* Hamlet: The tragey of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet

* Othello: The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare

* King Lear: King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare in which the titular character descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all.

*Macbeth: Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, and is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works.

2. Shakespeare's four comedies: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, Troilus and Cressida 

*A Midsummer Night's Dream: is a comedy play by William Shakespeare.It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of theDuke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals)

*The Merchant of Venice: The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in 16th century Venice must default on a large loan provided by an abused Jewish moneylender. 

*Much Ado About Nothing: Much Ado About Nothing is a comedic play by William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing is generally considered one of Shakespeare's best comedies, because it combines elements of robust hilarity with more serious meditations on honor, shame, and court politics.

*Troilus and Cressida: Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays . The play ends on a very bleak note with the death of the noble Trojan Hector and destruction of the love between Troilus and Cressida.

William Shakespeare This article is about the poet and playwright. For other persons of the same name, see William Shakespeare (disambiguation) . For other uses of "Shakespeare", seeShakespeare (disambiguation) . Relatives Signature ...

3. Iago is a fictional character in Shakespeare's Othello. Iago hates Othello and devises a plan to destroy him by making him believe that his wife is having an affair with his lieutenant, Michael Cassio.

4. Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman statesman, general and notable author of Latin prose. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

5. A Red Red Rose: The song is also referred to by the title "Oh, My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose", "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" or "Red, Red Rose" and is often published as a poem.

O my Luve's like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve's like the melodie
That’s sweetly play'd in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I:
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry:

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare thee well, my only Luve
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile.

6. "To Helen" is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.

On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece,
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche
How statue-like I see thee stand,
The agate lamp within thy hand,
Ah! Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!

Edgar Allan Poe "Poe" redirects here. For other uses, see Poe (disambiguation) . This article is about the American writer. For a relative, see Edgar Allan Poe (Maryland attorney general) . For other uses, see ...

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7. Cupid and Psyche is a story from the Latin novel Metamorphoses, also known as The Golden Ass

8. Auld Lang Syne

9. mischief: reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others, the quality or nature of being harmful or evil

    e.g. His eyes were full of mischief.

10. metaphor: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

    e.g. Despite the mixed metaphor, there is some truth in this judgement.

11. simile: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

    e.g. It is not easy to make a simile go on all fours.

12. caesarian: relating to abdominal delivery, of or relating to or in the manner of Julius Caesar

    e.g. Objectives : To analysis the cause of uterine laceration with Micheal Stark Caesarian Section.

1. William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

2. Delilah is a character in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall.

3. Samson Agonistes is a tragic closet drama by John Milton.

John Milton For other people named John Milton, see John Milton (disambiguation) . John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist , man of letters , and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell . He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poemParadise Lost (1667), written in blank verse .

The Chorus discusses Samson's background and describes his various militaristic accomplishments:

Ran on embattled armies clad in iron,

And, weaponless himself,

Made arms ridiculous, useless the forgery

Of brazen shield and spear, the hammered cuirass,

Chalybean-tempered steel, and frock of mail

Adamantean proof;

...

Then with what trivial weapon came to hand,

The jaw of a dead ass, his sword of bone,

A thousand foreskins fell

4. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy play by William Shakespeare.It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of the Duke of Athens, Theseus, and Hippolyta. These include the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of six amateur actors (mechanicals)

5. A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or, sometimes, out loud in a small group. 

6. temptress 誘惑男人的女性 a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

    e.g. Supermodel Jane Bracknel plays a nubile temptress out to seduce him. 

7. crucial 決定性的,重要的,嚴厲的of extreme importance

    e.g. Talent, hard work and sheer tenacity are all crucial to career success.

8. alter 改變,更改,修改 make an alteration tobecome different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence

    e.g. The current division of labor between workers and management will alter.

 

9. illuminate 照明,闡明,說明make lighter or brighter;make free from confusion or ambiguity

    e.g. We illuminate the enemy plane with searchlights in order to shoot at it.