1. "If the patient had reckoned how many carriages would come to the funeral, the efficacy of the medicine would have to be discounted. If she can ask what style of sleeves are fashionable for coats this winter, then let me tell you something, her hope is not ten percent, but twenty percent." Before the doctor said this, there is a sentence that points out the truth of it; find it and write it below.
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2. "By November, a cold, unseen, unwelcome guest had broken into the neighborhood, reaching out a cold hand to touch this one day and that one tomorrow. The doctor called the visitor 'pneumonia'. This plague is simply rampant, harming dozens of people with one hand, but walking to the mossy, labyrinthine 'Hutong District', he slowed down his pace." What rhetorical device is used in this passage, and what is the effect of such writing? Write a sentence imitating it in relation to your life.
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3. What are the similarities and differences in the expressions of the following two sentences? Write two sentences imitating the way they are written in relation to your life reality.
1. "There is a small area west of Washington Square where the streets are sprawled out like little strips of cloth spread haphazardly, called the Hutong District."
②"He was in his late sixties, with a head like a half-man, half-animal forest god from Greek mythology, a body like a brat, and a beard like Michelangelo's statue of Moses, curling down from his head to his body."
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2. The role played by belief in life and death in the recovery of a patient is a great one. What are the sentences in the text that show the change in Joansie's belief in life and death, and what do Hughie and Bellman do to encourage Joansie to establish a belief in life? Underline the sentences in the text that you think are key and write annotated text next to your book or in your notebook.
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I.1. "It became hopeful depending on whether she held the resolve to live or not."
2. It is characterized by comparing "pneumonia" to a human being, and the spreading form of "pneumonia" is expressed in human behavior and action. It has the effect of interesting expression of image. "Pneumonia" is one of the human diseases, which is deprecated by human emotions, and it is written in such a "humane" way that the emotional contrast creates a humorous effect. The imitation sentence is a little bit.
3. The similarities: both use the other than this thing, written in a visual image. Differences: (1) the other thing and this thing belong to different categories, is a metaphor; (2) the other thing and this thing belong to the same category, is a comparison. The following is a brief summary of the imitation sentence.
Two phrases that show the change of Joanne West's beliefs: ① "Five leaves of the vine. On that vine. When the last one falls, I'll be finished. Three days earlier I had realized. Didn't the doctor tell you?" （"I don't have any faith in life. I'm just waiting to die.) ②"Another piece fell off. I don't want any soup. There are only four leaves left. If only I could see the last one fall before nightfall, I could close my eyes." (The fact that he is eager to die, but he is very concerned about the process of his own "death" and materializes it in the process of the falling of the five leaves of the vine reveals some subconscious attachment to life.) (3) "I don't want to wait. I don't want to think about anything. I don't want anything, I just want to float down, float down, like a defeated leaf without life force." ("I don't want to wait, I don't want to think about anything" indicates that the illness is more bitter and the persistence is more tiring; equating death with drifting down reveals romance, is it the characteristic of a painter or is it the yearning for life that makes it so?) ④"I thought it would fall at night. I heard the wind. Today it will fall, and my death will come." （"I have no faith in life, but I'm concerned about "it".) ⑤ "Hughie, I shouldn't have done that. I don't know how it happened, but the leaf kept falling, so I was not in a good mood. It's a sin to want to die. Bring me some chicken soup, and some milk, and some wine in the milk--and so on! First bring me a small mirror, and put a couple of pillows beside me, so that I can sit up and watch you cook." (Faith in life finally overcomes the wait for death, and Joansie is resurrected!)
Related phrases showing Hughie: ①"After the doctor left, Hughie went to the drawing room and cried, wetting a Japanese napkin. After she had cried she walked into Joan of Arc's room with her drawing board in her hand and her head held high, whistling all the while." (The weeping was so intense that the sadness of a friend's death was extraordinary. The "strutting" and "whistling" were probably meant to give her friend encouragement and courage in life.) ②"The doctor told me this morning that the hope that you will get well soon is - let me think about his words - yes, he said that your hope is 90%! Come on, have some soup, and then I'll paint again, sell it to an editor, and buy you a brand-name violet wine and some pork chops for your sick doll, it's definitely worth it to me." (Good lies, soup and wine and pork chops enticement, I hope my friend to aspire to the beauty of life, regain the faith of life.)
Expression of Bellman's relevant statements: "The first morning of the watchman's downstairs room apart now he was hard as hell, clothes, shoes all wet, cold to the touch. No one could guess where he went in the windy and rainy night. Later they found a lantern, still on, and found the stairs moved places, a few paintbrushes thrown east and west, a palette of green and yellow paint. Now you look out the window, and boy. There's one last vine leaf lying on the wall. Don't you wonder why it doesn't flutter when the wind blows? Alas, my dear, that is Bellman's work. On the night the last leaf fell, he painted another one on the wall." (Lateral description. Bellman paid with his life to encourage Joansie to regain her faith in life! A work that awakens life is certainly a masterpiece.)