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