M: Could you give me a ride to the Museum of Modem Art on your way to the office
W: I’m sorry, I’m not going to office today. You might ask Mary. She’s leaving at half past eight.
Allow me to give you a little advice about writing fiction. First, make your characters believable. Make sure that they behave and talk as individuals. In real life, everyone is unique. I fall your characters speak the same way and react to things in the same way, you’ll lose your readers from the start.
Once your readers believe in your characters, you must get them to care. Each reader must be able to identify with at least one character, to almost become that character in his or her mind. You can do this by developing characters with genuine human traits, both good and bad. The individuals who populate your story should have human strengths and weaknesses.
Now it’s time to weave your tale, to create a plot. Your readers are part of the story now; they are involved.
One last thing. Your story must touch the readers’ emotions. If you can make them laugh and cry along with your characters, you will be a successful writer.
Man: Don’t freak me out. Can you give me an idea of your holiday nightmare
Woman: Oh, easy! （）! We holidayed in Comwall last year, only to find people all lined up like whales on a beach.
Man: That sounds really dreadful.
M: Can you give me some information about the cost of a trip to Los Angeles
W: I’m sorry, sir. I can’t give you that information over the phone. My assistant will be able to help you.
Now, let me first give you a brief introduction to the American poet, Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was America’s best-known female poet and one of the foremost authors in American literature. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson was the middle child of a prominent lawyer and one-term United States congressional representative, Edward Dickinson, and his wife, Emily Norcross Dickinson. From 1840 to 1847 she attended the Amherst Academy, and from 1847 to 1848 she studied at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in South Hadley, a few trips to Boston for eye treatments in the early 1860s, Dickinson remained in Amherst, living in the same house on Main Street from 1855 until her death. During her lifetime, she published only about 10 of her nearly 2,000 poems, in newspapers, Civil War journals, and a poetry anthology. The first volume of Poems of Emily Dickinson was published in 1890, after Dickinson’s death.
Although few o
A. In 1848.
B. In the early 1850s.
C. In the late 1850s.
D. In the early 1860s.
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