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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?
• Bebop & Race(from Enote)
• A Plot Analysis
• Key Passages from the text
• Additional Passage after the Narrator's final recognition and his epiphany

Edgar Allan Poe

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

William Faulkner

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

What is Poetry?

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

Dorothy Parker

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

Situation and Setting

• Situation and Setting
• Rita Dove's

What is Tone?

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

W.H.Auden

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

Theodore Roethke

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

Picturing: Visual Imagery and Figures of Speech

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

What is Drama?

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

Sophocles

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