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Introduction

• What is Literature?
• What Are the Genres of Literature?
• Why Do We Study Literature: Defences of Literature

Plot

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

Narration and Point of View

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

Character

• What is Character?
• William Faulkner
• A Rose for Emily

Setting

• What is Setting?
• Amy Tan
• A Pair of Tickets

Symbol and Figurative Language

• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Birth-Mark
• What is Symbol?

Poetry: Introduction

• Defining Poetry, Poetic Subgenres and Kinds
• Responding To Poetry
• In Memorry of W.B. Yeats

Speaker

• Robert Browning
• Dramatic Monologue
• Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
• Margaret Atwood
• Death of a Young Son by Drowning

Situation and Setting

• Situation and Setting: Rita Dove's
• The Carpe Diem Poem
• Andrew Marvel's
• Matthew Arnold
• Dover Beach

Tone

• Tone
• W. D. Snodgrass
• Leaving the Model
• W.H. Auden
• Funeral Blues
• Elegy

Language

• Language
• Theodore Roethke
• My Papa's Waltz
• An Unusual Syntax in My Papa_s Waltz
• Questions to Ask
• William Carlos Williams
• Questions to ask
• The Red Wheelbarrow
• Author's own words on The Red Wheel Barrow

Picturing

• Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech
• William Shakespeare
• Metaphor
• Mataphor in [That time of year thou mayst in me behold]
• Emily Dickinson Bio
• Personification
• Because I could not stop for Death