1. "The lady with the dog" is a short story by Anton Chekhov,It tells the story of an adulterous affair between a Russian banker and a young lady he meets while vacationing in Yalta.
2. Setting: In works of narrative (especially fictional), the literary element setting includes the historical moment in the time and geographic location in which a story takes place, and helps initiate the main backdrop and mood for a story.
3. A short guide to writing about literature.
4. Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victoria era.
5. A Tale of Two Cities: is a novel by Charles Dickens. The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralised by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same period.
6. Western Canon Bloom(西方正典): it is a book by Harold Bloom on Western literature. Bloom defends the concept of the Western canon by focusing on 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon:
7. contemporary: characteristic of the present, belonging to the present time, occurring in the same period of time
e.g. This play is the image of contemporary urban life.
8. platation: garden consisting of a small cultivated wood without undergrowth
e.g. He once owned a cotton plantation.
9. spectacular: a lavishly produced performance
e.g. There isa spectacular waterfall.
10. magnificent: characterized by grandeur
e.g. This is the most magnificent bridge in existence.
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