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Introduction
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What is Literature?
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What Are the Genres of Literature?
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Why Do We Study Literature: Defences of Literature
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Plot
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What is Plot?
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James Baldwin
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Sonny's Blues
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Narration and Point of View
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Point of View and Unreliable Narrator
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Edgar Allan Poe
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The Cask of Amontillado
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Character
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What is Character?
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William Faulkner
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A Rose for Emily
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Setting
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What is Setting?
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Amy Tan
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A Pair of Tickets
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Symbol and Figurative Language
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Birth-Mark
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What is Symbol?
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Poetry: Introduction
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Defining Poetry, Poetic Subgenres and Kinds
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Responding To Poetry
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In Memorry of W.B. Yeats
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Speaker
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Robert Browning
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Dramatic Monologue
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Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
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Margaret Atwood
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Death of a Young Son by Drowning
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Situation and Setting
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Situation and Setting: Rita Dove's
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The Carpe Diem Poem
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Andrew Marvel's
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Matthew Arnold
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Dover Beach
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Tone
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Tone
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W. D. Snodgrass
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Leaving the Model
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W.H. Auden
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Funeral Blues
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Elegy
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Language
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Language
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Theodore Roethke
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My Papa's Waltz
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An Unusual Syntax in My Papa_s Waltz
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Questions to Ask
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William Carlos Williams
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Questions to ask
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The Red Wheelbarrow
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Author's own words on The Red Wheel Barrow
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Picturing
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Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech
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William Shakespeare
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Metaphor
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Mataphor in [That time of year thou mayst in me behold]
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Emily Dickinson Bio
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Personification
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Because I could not stop for Death