Topic Discussion：Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in EnglishBriefly discuss the features of Charles Dickens' works in terms of language and character portrayal.
① WITH HIS FIRST SENTENCE, HE ENGAGES THE READER’S ATTENTION AND HOLDS IT TO THE END. IN LANGUAGE, HE IS OFTEN COMPARED WITH SHAKESPEARE FOR HIS ADEPTNESS WITH THE VERNACULAR AND LARGE VOCABULARY WITH WHICH HE BRINGS OUT MANY A WONDERFUL VERBAL PICTURE OF MAN AND SCENE. DICKENS’S WORKS ARE ALSO CHARACTERIZED BY A MINGLING OF HUMOR AND PATHOS. HIS HUMOR AND WIT SEEM INEXHAUSTIBLE.  
②CHARACTER-PORTRAYAL IS THE MOST DISTINGUISHED FEATURE OF DICKENS’S WORKS. HIS WORKS BEST-DEPICTED CHARACTERS ARE THOSE INNOCENT, VIRTUOUS, PERSECUTED, HELPLESS CHILD CHARACTERS SUCH AS OLIVER TWIST, LITTLE NELL. DICKENS WRITES BEST WHEN SHE WRITES FROM THE CHILD’S POINT OF VIEW. AND HE IS ALSO FAMOUS FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF THOSE HORRIBLE AND GROTESQUE CHARACTERS LIKE FAGIN, BILL SIKES, AND QUILP, AND THOSE BROADLY HUMOROUS OR COMICAL ONES LIKE MR. MICAWBER, SAM WELLER, AND MRS. GAMP. HOWEVER, THESE CHARACTERS ARE IMPRESSIVE NOT ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE TRUE TO LIFE, BUT ALSO BECAUSE THEY ARE OFTEN LARGER THAN LIFE. THEY ARE, IN A WAY, THE EMBODIMENTS OF HUMAN BEINGS, WITH SOME PARTICULAR FEATURES EXAGGERATED AND HIGHLIGHTED, EXPOSED TO THE DEGREE OF EXTREMITY.
