Neat People vs Sloppy People
The analysis of the passage Neat People vs. Sloppy People
(外文学院02级2班 王思 020214214)
Abstract: Suzanne Britt’s work Neat People vs. Sloppy People is a passage of comparison. In this passage, Britt distinguishes neat people from sloppy people in the moral aspect. She used kinds of figures of speech such as paradox, hyperbole, metaphor and so on in the description and comparison, making her work so distinguished. Key words: neat people, sloppy people
Ⅰ.Brief account of the author Assistant Professor of English. A.B. Salem College; A.M. Washington University. Ms. Britt teaches literature and writing courses. Her poems have appeared in literary magazines such as Denver Quarterly, Lake Superior Review, Greensboro Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Her essays and articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Charlotte Observer, Newsweek, the New York Times, Books & Religion, the Boston Globe, Newsday, and the Miami Herald. She is the author of several books, including Skinny People Are Dull and Crunchy Like Carrots (now out of print), Show and Tell (Morning Owl Press), A Writer's Rhetoric (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), and Images: A Centennial Journey (Meredith College Press). Her essays have been widely reprinted in college textbooks both in the United States and Canada. She now writes regularly for the Authors Ink and has completed a novel. (Jackson)
Ⅱ. Brief account of this passage This passage of comparison is organized in the subject-by-subject pattern. The author first discussed the sloppy people fully, and then turns to the discussion of the neat people. From the title Neat People vs. Sloppy People the readers can already get the main idea of this passage: the comparison between neat people and sloppy people. “Neat people” and “sloppy people” are a pair of antonyms, so it seems that there is no need to compare, but the author does the comparison from the aspect of
(外文学院02级2班 王思 020214214)
Abstract: Suzanne Britt’s work Neat People vs. Sloppy People is a passage of comparison. In this passage, Britt distinguishes neat people from sloppy people in the moral aspect. She used kinds of figures of speech such as paradox, hyperbole, metaphor and so on in the description and comparison, making her work so distinguished. Key words: neat people, sloppy people
Ⅰ.Brief account of the author Assistant Professor of English. A.B. Salem College; A.M. Washington University. Ms. Britt teaches literature and writing courses. Her poems have appeared in literary magazines such as Denver Quarterly, Lake Superior Review, Greensboro Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Her essays and articles have appeared in various newspapers and magazines, including the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Charlotte Observer, Newsweek, the New York Times, Books & Religion, the Boston Globe, Newsday, and the Miami Herald. She is the author of several books, including Skinny People Are Dull and Crunchy Like Carrots (now out of print), Show and Tell (Morning Owl Press), A Writer's Rhetoric (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), and Images: A Centennial Journey (Meredith College Press). Her essays have been widely reprinted in college textbooks both in the United States and Canada. She now writes regularly for the Authors Ink and has completed a novel. (Jackson)
Ⅱ. Brief account of this passage This passage of comparison is organized in the subject-by-subject pattern. The author first discussed the sloppy people fully, and then turns to the discussion of the neat people. From the title Neat People vs. Sloppy People the readers can already get the main idea of this passage: the comparison between neat people and sloppy people. “Neat people” and “sloppy people” are a pair of antonyms, so it seems that there is no need to compare, but the author does the comparison from the aspect of