1

 Introduction
• What is Literature?
• How to write a literary essay: a brief guide

2

 James Baldwin
• James Baldwin Biography
• What is Plot?
• Behop & Race(from Enote)
• Plot Analysis
• Key Passages

3

 Edgar Allan Poe
• Edgar Allan Poe Bio
• Point of View and Unreliable Narrator
• Key Passages from "The Cask of Amontillado"

4

 William Faulkner
• William Faulkner Bio
• What is Character?
• Key Passages from

5

 What is Poetry?
• Defining Poetry, Poetic Subgenres and Kinds
• A. E. Stallings
• Hades Welcomes His Bride
• Margaret Atwood
• Death of a Young Son by Drowning

6

 Dorothy Parker
• Dorothy Parker
• Lyric and its Speaker
• "A Certain Lady"

7

 Situation and Setting
• Rita Dove Bio
• Situation and Setting
• Daystar

8

 What is Tone?
• Tone
• Snodgrass Bio
• Leaving the Motel

9

 W.H. Auden
• What is Elegy?
• Auden Bio
• Funeral Blues(and others)

10

 Theodore Roethke
• Denotation and Connotation
• Roethke Bio
• Word Order and Placement
• My Papa's Waltz

11

 Picturing: Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech
• Shakespeare Bio
• What is Metaphor?
• That time of year thou mayst in me behold
• Metaphor in this sonnet
• Shakespeare's Sonnet Sequence
• Sonnet

12

 What is Drama?
• What is Drama?
• Greek Tragedy and Aristotle's Poetics

13

 Sophocles
• Sophocles Biography
• Summary
• Themes of Antigone
• Key Passages from Antigone