Fostering Students’ Appreciating Ability through Analyzing the Metaphors in a Short Story

DOI

10.2991/iceemr-18.2018.112How to use a DOI?

Keywords

American literature teaching, appreciating ability, love is a fallacy, metaphors

Abstract

Max Shulman is a 20th century American writer, best known for his short stories. His writing style is always humorous. Hence most of studies on “Love is a Fallacy” in academic world mainly concentrate on his writing style and analysis of features of characters. In fact, this short novel entails rich rhetoric devices, among which the metaphor adds much color to this work, making readers easier to understand it. Therefore, this paper tries to put forward an example by analyzing three types of metaphors in this novel in order to help students master and appreciate it better in American literature teaching so as to foster their appreciating ability.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Shaojun Duan
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TI  - Fostering Students’ Appreciating Ability through Analyzing the Metaphors in a Short Story
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2018)
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