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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?
• Behop & Race(from Enote)
• A Plot Analysis
• Key Passages from the Text
• Additional Passages

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 "A Rose for Emily"

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

Dorothy Parker

• Dorothy Parker Bio
• A Certain Lady

Situation and Setting

• Rita Dove Bio
• Situation and Setting
• Daystar

What is Tone?

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

W.H. Auden

• Auden Bio
• What is Elegy?
• 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 this sonnet
• Shakespeare's Sonnet Sequence
• What is Sonnet?
• AI-assisted presentation

What is Drama?

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

Sophocles

• Sophocles Biography
• Summary
• Themes of Antigone
• Key Passages from Antigone
• Juliette Binoche's Antigone