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Unit 14 My Wood -E.M.Forster E.M.Forster 1879-1970 online-literature.com

My Wood -E.M. Forster Unit 14

.E.M.Forster-an English novelist,short story writ essayist and librettis.Heis known best for hisiron and well-plotted novels examining classfferen hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End. From Wikipedia,the free encyclopedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • E. M. Forster—an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist. He is known best for his ironic and well-plotted novels examining class difference and hypocrisy and also the attitudes towards gender and homosexuality in early 20th-century British society. Forster's humanistic impulse toward understanding and sympathy may be aptly summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End

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·Para.1 Q:How does the author relate the title to the first para.? Q:Does the author mention his book merely to indicate that he could afford to buy the wood with the chegue?

• Para. 1 • Q: How does the author relate the title to the first para.? • Q: Does the author mention his book merely to indicate that he could afford to buy the wood with the cheque?

intersect:cut through,separate e.g. A path intersects the wood,loosing itself in the depths of the bushes. A statue of Lin Zexu stands at the place where two roads intersect

• intersect: cut through, separate e.g. • A path intersects the wood, loosing itself in the depths of the bushes. • A statue of Lin Zexu stands at the place where two roads intersect

Paragraph 2 The author discusses the first effect of property on him "it makes me feel heavy"and this is reiterated at the end of the paragraph my wood makes me feel heavy

Paragraph 2 • The author discusses the first effect of property on him “it makes me feel heavy” and this is reiterated at the end of the paragraph “ my wood makes me feel heavy

In the first place:first of all e.g.a.I don't want to go yet-in the first place I'm not ready,and in the second place it is raining. b.The trousers shrank when I washed them,but they weren't really big enough in the first place

• In the first place: first of all • e.g. a. I don’t want to go yet—in the first place I’m not ready, and in the second place it is raining. • b. The trousers shrank when I washed them, but they weren’t really big enough in the first place

Paras.3-4 。Questions: .What does the author mean by"the relation between How is "a rocket containing a Union Jack"related with the author's purpose? 。 What does the author mean by saying "But these immensities ended by saddening me"?

Paras. 3—4 • Questions: • What does the author mean by “the relation between us” ? • How is “a rocket containing a Union Jack” related with the author’s purpose? • What does the author mean by saying “But these immensities ended by saddening me” ?

Paras.3-4 These two paragraphs discuss the second psychological consequence of owning property

• These two paragraphs discuss the second psychological consequence of owning property Paras. 3—4

amiss:wrong or wrongly e.g.I was worried that he might take my remark amiss

• amiss: wrong or wrongly e.g. I was worried that he might take my remark amiss