1

Introduction
What is Literature?
What Are the Genres of Literature?
Why Do We Study Literature: Defences of Literature

2

Plot
What is Plot?
James Baldwin
Sonny's Blues

3

Narration and Point of View
Point of View and Unreliable Narrator
Edgar Allan Poe
The Cask of Amontillado

4

Character
What is Character?
William Faulkner
A Rose for Emily

5

Setting
What is Setting?
Amy Tan
A Pair of Tickets

6

Symbol and Figurative Language
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Birth-Mark
What is Symbol?

7

Poetry: Introduction
Defining Poetry, Poetic Subgenres and Kinds
Responding To Poetry
In Memorry of W.B. Yeats

8

Speaker
Robert Browning
Dramatic Monologue
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
Margaret Atwood
Death of a Young Son by Drowning

9

Situation and Setting
Situation and Setting: Rita Dove's
The Carpe Diem Poem
Andrew Marvel's
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach

10

Tone
Tone
W. D. Snodgrass
Leaving the Model
W.H. Auden
Funeral Blues
Elegy

11

Language
Language
Theodore Roethke
My Papa's Waltz
An Unusual Syntax in My Papa_s Waltz
Questions to Ask
William Carlos Williams
Questions to ask
The Red Wheelbarrow
Author's own words on The Red Wheel Barrow

12

Picturing
Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech
William Shakespeare
Metaphor
Mataphor in [That time of year thou mayst in me behold]
Emily Dickinson Bio
Personification
Because I could not stop for Death