心中要有三個疑問：

1) What is that? 那是什麼

2) What is that for? 做什麼用

3) Why should we care? 和我有什麼關係

 

單字 Vocabulary

1) epic poetry

a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

2) genre

"kind" or "sort", from Latin: genus (stem gener-), Greek: genos, γένος) is the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment.

3) orientation

a course introducing a new situation or environment

 

字首 Prefixes

Ori- : beginning (開始)

e.g. 

* orientation (n.)

┌ a course introducing a new situation or environment

├a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships

├ the aims or interests of a particular activity or organization

...

* original (adj.)

┌ present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest

├ not dependent on other people's ideas; inventive and unusual

...

* originate (v.)

  have a specified beginning

Di- : 一分為二

e.g.

* divorce (v.)

  legally dissolve one's marriage with (someone)

* divide (v.)

  separate into parts or portions

課堂上看的影片 Video

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgZOQVJtvR8

─ the definition of 14th century: literacy; wide reading

↓ the definition of 18th century: profession of writing

↓ the definition of 19th century: high imagination

...

─ modern definition: beauty of expression and form; universal intellectual; emotional appeal

字的演變

   

* lyre 七弦琴 >>>lyrics 歌詞

* Lebos 列斯伏斯島(Greek island. Home to the 6th-century B.C.E. poet Sappho) >>> Lesbian 女同性戀

 

拆字

sympathy   sym-: together/ -path: feeling

apathy   a-: no/ -path: feeling

atheist   a-: no/ -the-: god

電影 Movie

Helen of Troy, 2003

http://blog.udn.com/tysunnhcue/17040167