1

 Introduction
• Introduction: What is Literature?
• Why Study Literature?
• What We do with Literature: Three Tips
• Questions to ask when you read fictions

2

 Plot
• What is Plot?
• Jame Baldwin
• Sonny's Blues

3

 Point of View
• Point of View
• Unreliable Narrator
• Edgar Allan Poe
• The Cask of Amontillado
• The Cask of Amontillado Full Text

4

 Character
• What is a Character?
• William Faulkner
• A Rose for Emily
• A Rose for Emily Full Text

5

 Setting
• What is Setting?
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Yellow Wallpaper
• The Yellow Wallpaper Fulltext

6

 Symbolism
• Symbol and Figurative Language
• James Joyce Biography
• Epiphany
• Araby Full Text

7

 What is Poetry?
• What is Poetry?
• What is Meter? (from Abrams's Glossary)

8

 Speaker
• Speaker: whose voice to we hear?
• Wordsworth Biography
• She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways full text
• Robert Browning Biography
• My Last Duchess Full Text
• A Few Quotes from The Preface to Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth on The French Revolution

9

 Setting
• John Donne Biography
• Metaphysical Poetry
• Conceit
• The Flea Full Text
• T.S. Eliot Biography
• The Long Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

10

 Tone
• William Blake Biography
• London full text
• Seamus Heaney Biography
• Mid-Term Break Full Text

11

 Language
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Pied Beauty
• Theodore Roethke Biography
• My Papa_s Waltz Full Text
• Inscape and Instress

12

 Figures of Speech
• Emily Dickinson Biography
• Because I could not stop for Death Full Text
• John Keats Biography
• To Autumn Full Text

13

 Rhyme and Meter
• Rhyme
• Ballad
• Sir Patrick Spens
• I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud

14

 Forms
• Fairie Queene Book I Canto I
• Edmund Spenser Bio
• Ozymandias
• Percy Bysshe Shelley Biography
• Spenserian Stanza
• Sonnet