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1. Request Access
2. I Need Help
3. Defining Literature
4. Introduction to Fiction
5. Philip K. Dick, "Beyond the Door," 1954
6. How to Analyze a Short Story
7. Elements of Literature
8. Conflict
9. Mary Shelley, "The Mortal Immortal," 1833
10. Characters and Characterization
11. Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour," 1894
12. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown," 1835
13. Character Analysis
14. Writing an Introduction to a Literary Analysis Essay
15. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," 1892
16. Arthur Conan Doyle, "Scandal in Bohemia," 1891
17. Symbols in Literature
18. Symbolism
19. Kelly Link, "The Specialist's Hat," 1998
20. Jim Shepard, "The Zero Meter Diving Team," 2007
21. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," 1845
22. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Selected Works, 1855
23. Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz," 1961
24. Reader-response to "My Papa's Waltz"
25. Robert Frost, "The Lockless Door," 1920
26. How to Analyze Poetry
27. Reading a Play
28. Susan Glaspell, "Trifles," 1916
29. Reader-Response Criticism
30. Reader-Response Criticism
31. Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House," 1879
32. Free Verse
33. Poetry Lesson Presentation
34. Billy Collins: A Poet Speaks Out
35. Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning," 1993
36. Billy Collins, "The Lanyard," 2007
37. Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again," 1935
38. Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market," 1862
39. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
40. How to Write With Style
41. Creating an Effective Style
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