kiwiguo的部落格

1. orientation(n.)the act of orienting, a predisposition in favor of something

    e.g. They give their new employees a day or two of perfunctory orientation.

2. genre(n.)a kind of literary or artistic work, a style of expressing yourself in writing

    e.g. She emerges as a full, three-dimensional character in a way that few horror genre heroines ever do.

3. epic(n.)/(adj.)very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary, constituting or having to do with or suggestive of a literary epic

    e.g. The themes get tangled in Mr. Mahfouz's epic storytelling.

4. tragedy(n.)an event resulting in great loss and misfortune, drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance

    e.g. All that money brought nothing but sadness and misery and tragedy.

5. cited(v.)make reference to, commend

    e.g. The officer cited the federation's rule on affiliation.

6. Freytag's Pyramid

7. every fair from fair sometime declines, by chance or nature's changing course untrimmed. 

8. Yalta雅爾達

    e.g. Stalin agreed at Yalta to hold free elections in Poland, and that's a serious commitment.