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Introduction

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

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

Edgar Allan Poe

• Edgar Allan Poe Bio
• Point of View and Unreliable Narrator
• Key Passages from

William Faulkner

• William Faulkner Biography
• What is Character?
• Key Passages from A Rose for Emily

Poetry Introduction

• What is Poetry?
• How to respond to Poetry
• Meter

Robert Browning

• Robert Browning Bio
• Speaker and Dramatic Monologue
• My Last Duchess

Dorothy Parker

• Dorothy Parker Bio
• Lyric and its Speaker
• "A Certain Lady"
• Possible Questions

Matthew Arnold

• Situation and Setting
• Matthew Arnold Bio
• "Dover Beach"

Andrew Marvell

• Andrew Marvell Bio
• Carpe Diem
• Metaphysical Poetry
• "To His Coy Mistress"

D. Snodgrass

• What is Tone?
• W.D. Snodgrass Bio
• Leaving the Motel

W. H. Auden

• What is Elegy?
• Auden Bio
• "Funeral Blues"

Theodore Roethke

• Denotation and Connotation
• Theodore Roethke Bio
• Word Order and Placement
• My Papa_s Waltz

William Shakespeare

• Shakespeare Bio
• Metaphor
• "That time of year thou mayst in me behold"
• Metaphor in "That time of year"

Emily Dickinson

• Personification
• Emily Dickinson Bio
• "Because I could not stop for Death"

John Keats

• Symbol
• Keats Bio
• "Ode to a Nightingale"

Drama Introduction

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

Sophocles

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