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Unit 4Description of a Person Content Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst; Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. 十四行诗(第十八首) 梁实秋译 我可能把你和夏天相比拟？ 你比夏天更可爱更温和： 狂风会把五月的花苞吹落地， 夏天也嫌太短促，匆匆而过： 有时太阳照得太热， 常常又遮暗他的金色的脸； 美的事物总不免要凋落，偶然的，或是随自然变化而流转。  但是你的永恒之夏不会褪色； 你不会失去你的俊美的仪容； 死神不能夸说你在他的阴影里面走着， 如果你在这不朽的诗句里获得了永生； 只要人们能呼吸，眼睛能看东西， 此诗就会不朽，使你永久生存下去。 I. English Conventions Description is often found as an assistant pattern of development in other forms of writing, serving to facilitate narration, exposition or argumentation. Description, however, can also be taken as a dominant form of writing. Different from narration which mainly aims to instruct or help the reader in his/her understanding of something, description, when adopted as a genre of writing, is intended for creating a certain Dominant impression. I. English Conventions Essential elements: 1) An object of description, which can be anything from a thing, a person, a place, an experience, an emotion, or a situation, among other possible choices. In this chapter, our focus is on the descriptive essay of a person. 2) A dominant impression 3) Sensory details Warming up Activity 1 Please list at least ten adjectives which can be used to describe a person’s physical appearance. Mysterious/unearthly/cryptic Solitary/desolate/lonely Seductive/alluring/tempting Muscular/masculine/broad-shouldered Pointy nose of roman style/elegant Dark-blu