Unit One "On Doors"by Christopher Darlington Morley 1
Literary Device:Symbol（象征） 6
Composition Guide:Achieving Coherence 7
Further Reading: "A Letter to Father Time(New Year's Eve)"by Christopher Darlington Morley 9
Unit Two "On Goinga Journey"by William Hazlitt 13
Literary Device:Rhetorical Question（修辞性问句） 22
Composition Guide:Position Defending 24
FurtherReading: "Going Out for a Walk"by Max Beerbohm 26
Unit Three "A Piece of Chalk"by G.K. Chesterton 29
Literary Device:Hyperbole/Exaggeration（夸张） 37
Composition Guide:Narrating and Reflecting 38
Further Reading:"On Running After One's Hat"by G.K. Chesterton 39
Unit Four "ARelic"by Max Beerbohm 43
Literary Device:Allusion（引喻） 52
Composition Guide:Narrative Point of View 53
Further Reading:"They All Just Went Away"by Joyce Carol Oates 55
Unit Five "On Lying Awake at Night"by Stewart Edward White 65
Literary Device:Personification（拟人） 72
Composition Guide:Description 73
Further Reading:"Niagara Falls"by Rupert Brooke 74
Unit Six "Rude Am I in My Speech"by Caryl Phillips 79
Literary Devices:Metaphor and Simile（隐喻与明喻） 89
Composition Guide:Compare and Contrast 90
Further Reading:"Do He Have Your Number,Mr. Jeffrey?"by Gayle Pemberton 92
Unit Seven "About Face"by Joseph Epstein 101
Literary Device:Transferred Epithet（移就） 112
Composition Guide:Paragraph Development 112
Further Reading:"My Face"by Robert Bentley 114
Unit Eight "La Paz"by Jan Morris 117
Literary Device:Rhyme（押韵） 124
Composition Guide:Travel Essay 125
Further Reading:"Pamplona in July"by Ernest Hemingway 127
Unit Nine "Grieving"by Meenakshi Gigi Durham 135
Literary Device:Humor（幽默） 146
Composition Guide:FreeAssociation 147
Further Reading:"Who Are You and What Are You Doing Here?"by Mark Edmundson 149
UnitTen "Trivia"by Logan Pearsall Smith 161
Literary Device:Epiphany（顿悟） 169
Composition Guide:Ironic Turn of Meaning 170
Further Reading:"The Note-Books of Samuel Butler"by Samuel Butler 171
Unit Eleven "Thomas Hobbes"by Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper 175
Literary Devices:Metonymy and Synecdoche（换喻与提喻） 184
Composition Guide:Biographical Essay 185
Further Reading:"William James"by John Jay Chapman 186
Unit Twelve "Disaster Always Waits on Early Wit"by Samuel Johnson 191
Literary Device:Parallelism（排比） 199
Composition Guide:Semantic or Concept Map 199
Further Reading:"Domestick greatness unattainable"by Samuel Johnson 201
Appendix 205