FICTION
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Plot
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| Kate Chopin |
The Story of an Hour |
| Guy de Maupassant |
The Necklace |
| Grace Paley |
A Conversation with My Father |
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Character
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| Willa Cather |
Paul's Case |
| Herman Melville |
Bartleby, the Scrivener |
| Joyce Carol Oates |
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? |
| John Updike |
A & P |
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Setting
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| Sandra Cisneros |
The House on Mango Street |
| Stephen Crane |
The Open Boat |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
The Yellow Wallpaper |
| Ernest Hemingway |
Hills Like White Elephants |
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Point of View
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| Toni Cade Bambara |
The Lesson |
| Anton Chekhov |
The Lady with the Dog |
| Lorrie Moore |
How to Become a Writer |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
The Cask of Amontillado |
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Symbolism
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Young Goodman Brown |
| Shirley Jackson |
The Lottery |
| John Steinbeck |
The Chrysanthemums |
| Alice Walker |
Everyday Use |
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Theme
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| Raymond Carver |
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love |
| D. H. Lawrence |
The Rocking-Horse Winner |
| Tim O'Brien |
The Things They Carried |
| Eudora Welty |
A Worn Path |
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Style, Tone, and Irony
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| Sherman Alexie |
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven |
| James Joyce |
Araby |
| Jamaica Kincaid |
Girl |
| Flannery O'Connor |
A Good Man Is Hard to Find |
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Poetry
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Word Choice, Word Order, and
Tone
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| Robert Browning |
My Last Duchess |
| Hayden Carruth |
Regarding Chainsaws |
| Victor Hernández Cruz |
Problems with Hurricanes |
| T. S. Eliot |
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
| Mark Halliday |
Functional Poem |
| Michael S. Harper |
Nightmare Begins Responsibility |
| Robert Herrick |
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time |
| John Keats |
Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Philip Larkin |
High Windows |
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Imagery and Figures of Speech
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| Matthew Arnold |
Dover Beach |
| Elizabeth Bishop |
The Fish |
| William Blake |
London |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
The Bean Eaters |
| Robert Burns |
A Red, Red Rose |
| Marilyn Chin |
Turtle Soup |
| Emily Dickinson |
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain |
| John Donne |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning |
| Geoffrey Hill |
In Memory of Jane Fraser |
| John Keats |
To Autumn |
| Andrew Marvell |
To His Coy Mistress |
| William Carlos Williams |
The Red Wheelbarrow |
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Symbol, Allegory, and Irony
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| Margaret Atwood |
The Woman Who Could Not Live with Her Faulty Heart |
| Robert Frost |
After Apple-Picking |
| Louise Glück |
Parable of Flight |
| Seamus Heaney |
Digging |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
The Windhover |
| Thylias Moss |
Tornados |
| Marge Piercy |
Barbie Doll |
| Henry Reed |
Naming of Parts |
| Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Richard Cory |
| David Young |
The Portable Earth-Lamp |
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Sounds and Rhythm
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| Elizabeth Bishop |
One Art |
| William Blake |
The Lamb |
| William Blake |
The Tyger |
| Gwendolyn Brooks |
We Real Cool |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins |
God's Grandeur |
| John Frederick Nims |
Love Poem |
| Edgar Allan Poe |
Annabel Lee |
| Theodore Roethke |
My Papa's Waltz |
| Gertrude Stein |
Susie Asado |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
Ulysses |
| Quincy Troupe |
Snake-Back Solo 2 |
| William Wordsworth |
I wandered lonely as a cloud |
| William Butler Yeats |
The Second Coming |
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Poetic Forms
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| Anonymous |
Sir Patrick Spens |
| Carolyn Forché |
The Colonel |
| Alice Fulton |
You Can't Rhumboogie in a Ball and Chain |
| Thomas Gray |
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
| Joy Harjo |
She Had Some Horses |
| George Herbert |
Easter-wings |
| Marianne Moore |
Poetry |
| William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 18 |
| William Shakespeare |
Sonnet 116 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley |
Ode to the West Wind |
| Gary Snyder |
Hitch Haiku |
| Dylan Thomas |
Do not go gentle into that good night |
| Walt Whitman |
A Noiseless Patient Spider |
| Walt Whitman |
From Song of Myself |
| William Carlos Williams |
This Is Just to Say |
| Nellie Wong |
Grandmother's Song |
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Drama
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| Edward Albee |
The Sandbox |
| Susan Glaspell |
Trifles |
| Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll's House |
| William Shakespeare |
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark |
| William Shakespeare |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
| Sophocles |
Antigone |
| Tennessee Williams |
The Glass Menagerie |
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