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Part I Fiction
Chapter 1 Plot
The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses Irwin Shaw
Chapter 2 Character and Characterization
Astronomer's Wife Kay Boyle
Everyday Use Alice Walker
Chapter 3 Theme
I Want to Know Why Sherwood Anderson
A Rose for Emily William Faulkner
Chapter 4 Point of View
Haircut Ring Lardner
A Little Cloud James Joyce
Chapter 5 Style, Tone, and Irony
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Ernest Hemingway
The Black Cat EdgarAIlan Poe
Chapter 6 Symbol
The Fly Katherine Mansfield
The Lottery Shirley Jackson
Chapter 7 Types of Fiction
The Mark on the Wall Virginia Woolf
Lost in the Funhouse John Barth
Part II Poetry
Chapter 1 Alliteration, Assonance, and Rhyme
Full Fathom Five William Shakespeare
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind William Shakespeare
To -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Splendor Falls Alfred Tennyson
God's Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins
Toads Revisited Philip Larkin
Chapter 2 Rhythm and Meter
Song John Donne
Virtue George Herbert
The Oak Alfred Tennyson
When I Was One-and-Twenty A.E. Housman
Oh, Who Is That Young Sinner A.E. Housman
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
The Voice Thomas Hardy
Chapter 3 Closed Form and Open Form
To Be or Not to Be William Shakespeare
On What Foundation Stands Samuel Johnson
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Dylan Thomas
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Robert Herrick
Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer John Keats
With Music Strong I Come Walt Whitman
Digging Seamus Heaney
L(a] E. E. Cummings
Me Up At Does E.E. Cummings
Chapter 4 Diction
This Is Just to Say William Carlos Williams
The Red Wheel Barrow William Carlos Williams
Metamorphosis Wallace Stevens
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth
It Is a Beauteous Evening William Wordsworth
A Little Learning Is a Dangerous Thing Alexander Pope
Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave? Thomas Hardy
London William Blake
Disillusionment often O'Clock Wallace Stevens
Fire and Ice Robert Frost
Chapter 5 Figures of Speech
The Eagle: A Fragment Alfred Tennyson
Metaphors Sylvia Plath
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? William Shakespeare
A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns
It Dropped So Low--in My Regard Emily Dickinson
To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell
Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint John Milton
Death Be Not Proud John Donne
Chapter 6 Image and Symbol
Anecdote of the Jar Wallace Stevens
Heat H.D.
The Victory Ann Stevenson
I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I Died Emily Dickinson
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman
The Sick Rose William Blake
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
The Boston Evening Transcript T.S. Eliot
Up-hill Christina Rossetti
The Second Coming William Butler Yeats
Chapter 7 Tone and Speaker
Loveliest of Trees A.E. Housman
My Papa's Waltz Theodore Roethke
The Chimney Sweeper William Blake
On Stella's Birthday Jonathan Swift
My Last Duchess Robert Browning
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot
Chapter 8 Types of Poetry
I Sing of Warfare Virgil
The Wife of Usher's Well Anonymous
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe
In Time of"The Breaking of Nations" Thomas Hardy
Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost
Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley
We All Behold with Envious Eyes Jonathan Swift
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Thomas Gray
Part Ill Drama
Chapter 1 Plot and Character
Oedipus the King Sophocles
Chapter 2 Dialogue, Staging, and Theme
Trifles Susan Glaspell
Chapter 3 Types of Drama
The Dumb Waiter Harold Pinter
Literary Terms
Bibliography