First, pay attention to the details. Literature has newly issued an examination outline, which defines the examination objectives. Any writer within the assessment object must read carefully until he can say the following: 1) What are his main works? 2) What is his writing theme? 3) What is his writing style? 4) Is he a representative writer of this era? If so, is it possible to give a big answer? If these questions can be made clear, then the day of passing the exam is not far away.
Secondly, review must be organized. Some students don't summarize the details enough, and some students recite the details well, but their language ability is not good. In the previous class, the 40-point multiple-choice question in front was not ideal, and there were some questions behind it, which was more difficult. The latter students remember the details, but there are many spelling grammar mistakes. They can see what writers they are, but they can't write correctly. It's a pity to lose points like this. For such students, I think it is very important to stipulate the reading progress every week. For example, from April/kloc-0 to April 3, you should review the English Renaissance. You can read the details in the book first every morning and have a general understanding of the content. Recite big questions in the afternoon and take care of details. The expression of the big topic is clearly remembered, the progress is controlled, and the efficiency is naturally improved.
Also, be sure to read the excerpts at the back of the author's comments. Some candidates only read the introduction of writers and literary schools, but not the quotations in textbooks, which is very dangerous. There are quotations selected from the teaching materials in the test paper, and candidates are required to answer the author's name, the name of the work and their understanding of the quotations. In fact, it is not that these candidates don't want to read the quotations behind, but that they have not learned to read. If you want to understand the following selections, the key is to understand the writing characteristics of literary textbooks. You must first find out the writer's creative theme and ideas (this part is usually written in the writer's comments), and then follow the creative theme to the selected words to find sentences consistent with these creative ideas (the selected words are posted at the back, often out of touch with the main part of the creation). Only in this way can you read less and not miss the content. For example, in Whitman's poems, the theme of the song of self is "praising individualism, freedom and equality", which connects the poet's thoughts with the public's thoughts in the first person and praises a free America. The first section of Song of My Own, extracted from the back cover of the book, embodies this theme: I praise myself and I sing myself. Every atom trusts me, just as it trusts you. Obviously, every American has turned praising himself into a motto. A country where everyone praises freedom is bound to be a country that praises freedom. In short, we must read the excerpt in the context, find the theme first, and then read the excerpt. Finally, we should not recite big questions, but try to speed up the memory efficiency. For example, in ode to the west wind, who recited Shelley and how did he recite a long passage? The easiest way is to memorize the main idea of Chinese first, then grasp the key words and recall what the English content is. You can recite it like this: "the west wind is Shelley's image, the west wind is constructive and destructive potential, and the west wind is an omnipresent force." Grasp the key words with the original virtues of hope and rebirth. Is the content unclear? There is also the need to find some similarities between writers, similarities between Britain and the United States, which is also very conducive to reciting. For example, when talking about Thomas Hardy's naturalism, there is a saying that "character is fate and environment is fate", and there is a similar content when discussing Dreiser's naturalism in the United States. At this time, we should recite Thomas Hardy's part first. Only by remembering the previous content can the later content pass quickly and improve the learning efficiency. A similar situation has also emerged: Dickens' creative theme and Bernard Shaw's creative theme have some similar keywords (both talking about condemning social hypocrisy, injustice and corruption), the characteristics of modern British literature creation and the characteristics of American literature creation (both talking about from public to private, from history to psychology, from objective to subjective). In fact, many students who come to New Oriental classes are not very good at English at first, and they also have a headache for literature. However, after finding a memory method, I found literature very interesting. In the end, I not only got high marks, but also fell in love with literature. It's all about learning methods. In short, you can't "read intensively" sentence by sentence, and you may not remember it during the exam. Delayed time, delayed efficiency, not worth the loss. Collect and sort out the examination papers.