Meditation on the Moon
Glossary
1 materialism
2 mentalism
3 nothing but
4 generosity
5 common n
6 expectantly
7 terrace
8 accu of
9 heretically
10 retort
11 preposterous
cock
12 conviction
13 convincing
14 divinity
solb
15 numinous
aker16 pantheons
17 postulate
18 enigmatically
19 austere
20 obscure
21 ebb and flow
22 hypostasize
23 bestial
24 mythology
25 derelict
26 abject
27 futile
28 immensity
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30 exultant
The main ideas the author wants to prent in this essay:
疲乏
1 How can we understand the moon from the materialistic point of view?
2 How can we understand the moon from the mentalistic point of view?mad dog
3 How does the author combine the two points of view together?
Rhetoric devices / figures of speech ud in this essay:
Parallelism
As we all know parallelism is a very important rhetorical skill in writing so as this article. We can know from some parts of the essay.
For example, 'nothing but x', that 'nothing but economics'! And the no less intolerant 'nothing but spirit', 'nothing but consciousness‘ (paragraph1)
Personification
For using personification the author aim in giving the readers a vivid feeling of the dim light of night under the moonlight. Here some words cho from the article:
night is struggling to wake , blinded garden dreams so vividly of its lost colors, Does the oasis lie there below ….. Struggling, blinded garden dreams, oasis lie…all of the words give us a kind of feeling that all of tho things under
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In this article another notable rhetorical aspect is innuendo which was reflected by Socrates and Lawrence’ words. Here are some parts from the article:河北学位英语报名网
“Socrates was accud by his enemies of
第84届奥斯卡金像奖颁奖典礼having affirmed, heretically, that the moon was a stone. He denied the accusation. All men, said he, know that the moon is a god, and he agreed with all men. ” “The evidence for its stoniness and against its radiuminess may be found in any children's encyclopaedia. ”
Description
If you read this essay carefully you will notice some sparks of environment describing. Yes, we can feel that kind of beautiful which the author written: “And not only full, but also beautiful. And not only beautiful, ” from the part below.
“Outside my window the night is struggling to wake; in the moonlight, the blinded garden dreams so vividly of its lost colors that the black ros are almost crimson, the trees stand expectantly on the verge of living greenness. The white-washed parapet of the terrace is brilliant against the dark-blue sky. ”
Analogy
Without any doubt that narrate a theory or doctrine directly is pale and readers be confusion easily. So Aldous Huxley ud analogy in his essay. For example：
Man's religious life works on the principle of a hot-water system.
Allusion
Another spark of Meditation on the Moon is there are many allusions in the author’s mind fortunately he ud in his article. For instance,
Artemis, the goddess of wild things, is identified in the later mythology with Selene.
Beyond all doubt the allusions are impressively and increa the degree of depth of the article.
To conclude, a large amount of rhetoric are ud in Meditation on the Moon which increa the vividness of language and ari the interests of readers.
