1

 Introduction
• Why Study Literature?
• What is Literature?
• Three Tips in Reading Literature
• Questions to ask when reading fiction

2

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

3

 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?
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Yellow Wallpaper

6

 Symbolism
• What is Symbol?
• Other literary terms related to Symbol
• James Joyce
• Araby
• Epiphany
• Chivalric romance
• A Classic Example of Epiphany from St. Augustine's Confessions

7

 What is Poetry?
• What is Poetry?

8

 Speaker
• Dramatic Monologue
• Robert Browning
• My Last Duchess
• Persona, Tone, and Voice
• William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth's Poetic Theory
• She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways

9

 Setting
• metaphysical Poetry
• Conceit
• Andrew Marvell
• To His Coy Mistress
• Seamus Heaney
• Mid-term Break
• Shelley
• Ozymandias
• Sonnet

10

 Tone
• London
• Blake Biography
• Roethke Biography
• My Papa's Waltz

11

 Figures of Speech
• Emily Dickinson
• Because I could not stop for Death
• Metaphor

12

 Rhyme and Meter
• Rhyme and Meter
• Ballad
• Sir Patrick Spens
• Shakespeare