GCSE英语语言考试-虚构小说考试问题和答案案例​

Analysing Fiction - Question and extract

虚构小说分析--问题和摘要

The extracts your exam questions are based on might be longer than the one here but you should still be able to write a close analysis. First of all, have a read, and see what ideas you can come up with. Remember to link each point to a quotation or example.

你的考试题目所依据的摘录可能比这里的长，但你仍然应该能够写出仔细的分析。首先，阅读一下，看看你能想出什么想法。记住要把每个观点与引文或例子联系起来。

Question

How does the writer use language to create interest for the reader in this opening to The Picture of Dorian Gray? (10 marks)

在《多里安-格雷的画像》的这个开头中，作者是如何使用语言为读者创造兴趣的？(10分)

Extract

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.

From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion. The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make