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高英人文知识重点（4、5、9课） 1.???? Alice Walker’s writing：“the Third Life of Grange Copeland” ；“Color purple”; “In search of our Mother’s Gardens”. 2. Many believe that the Civil Rights Movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and ended with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 3. For many activists and scholars, the civil rights movement ended in 1968 with the death of Martin Luther king, Jr. 4. Alice Walker’s novel, “The color purple” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1983. 5. The Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22nd, 1941. 6. Winston Chill made the speech “Blood, Toil, Tears and sweat”. 7. Winston Chill was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1953. 8. “Japan, Italy, Germany” are Axis Coalition member. 9. Harrow is a famous public school of UK. 10. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made combination of American folk humor and serious literature. 11. “The Mississippi River” is called “the father of waters” in America. 12. Mark Twain’s writing: “The Guilded Age”; “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”; “The prince and the pauper”; “Adventure of Huckleberry Finn”; “Life on the Mississippi”; “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s court”. 13. Huckleberry Finn is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience”. 14. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his local color. 高级英语第一册修辞（1-9课） Figures of speech:Simile ? 明喻??????????? metaphor? 暗喻???? ? personification? 拟人Metonymy? 换喻?????? ? synecdoche ? 提喻??? euphemism? 委婉语Irony 反语??????????? oxymoron? 矛盾??? alliteration? 压头韵Transferred epithet 移位修辞?? hyperbole 夸张anticlimax, repetition, antonomasia, parody. 12)?? Have you ever seen a lame animal ,perhaps dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car ,sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind of him?(metaphor) 13)?? And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe. (exaggeration)----P58, L4. 14)?? I feel my whole face warming from the he