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Introduction

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

Plot

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

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?
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Yellow Wallpaper

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

What is Poetry?

• What is Poetry?

Speaker

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

Setting

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

Tone

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

Figures of Speech

• Emily Dickinson
• Because I could not stop for Death
• Metaphor

Rhyme and Meter

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