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Introduction

• What is Literature?

• How to write a literary essay: a brief guide

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James Baldwin

• James Baldwin Biography

• What is Plot?

• Plot Summary from Sparknote

• Historical context from Enote

• Plot Analysis

• Key Passages from the Text

• Additional Passage after VII: the Narrator's final recognition and his epiphany

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Edgar Allan Poe

• Edgar Allan Poe Bio

• Point of View and Unreliable Narrator

• Key Passages from

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William Faulkner

• William Faulkner Biography

• What is Character?

• Key Passages from A Rose for Emily

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Poetry Introduction

• What is Poetry?

• How to respond to Poetry

• Meter

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Robert Browning

• Robert Browning Bio

• Speaker and Dramatic Monologue

• My Last Duchess

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Dorothy Parker

• Dorothy Parker Bio

• Lyric and its Speaker

• "A Certain Lady"

• Possible Questions

8

Matthew Arnold

• Situation and Setting

• Matthew Arnold Bio

• "Dover Beach"

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Andrew Marvell

• Andrew Marvell Bio

• Carpe Diem

• Metaphysical Poetry

• "To His Coy Mistress"

10

D. Snodgrass

• What is Tone?

• W.D. Snodgrass Bio

• Leaving the Motel

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W. H. Auden

• What is Elegy?

• Auden Bio

• "Funeral Blues"

12

Theodore Roethke

• Denotation and Connotation

• Theodore Roethke Bio

• Word Order and Placement

• My Papa_s Waltz

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William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare Bio

• Metaphor

• "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"

• Metaphor in "That time of year"

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Emily Dickinson

• Personification

• Emily Dickinson Bio

• "Because I could not stop for Death"

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John Keats

• Symbol

• Keats Bio

• "Ode to a Nightingale"

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Drama Introduction

• What is Drama?

• Greek Tragedy and Aristotle's Poetics

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Sophocles

• Sophocles Biography

• Summary of Antigone

• Themes of Antigone

• Key Passages from Antigone