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1. Defining Literature
2. Literary Terms
3. How to Annotate a Text
4. Critical Approaches Chart
5. Video: Teaching Theme
6. Organizing Your Analysis
7. Writing about Literature Handout
8. Note to Instructors
9. Listening
10. In-Class Writing Activities
11. Character Analysis
12. Close Reading
13. Symbolism Assignment
14. Comparative Essay
15. Introduction to American Literature
16. Introduction to Fiction
17. The Difference Between Fiction and Nonfiction
18. Introduction to Creative Nonfiction
19. Introduction to Plays and Film
20. Reading a Play
21. Reading Poetry
22. Poetry Lesson Presentation
23. Poetry Literary Terms: A Guide
24. Free Verse
25. Billy Collins: A Poet Speaks Out
26. Approaching Poetry (Includes Free Verse)
27. Approaching Poetry
28. Elements of Literature
29. The Rough Guide to Literary Style, a Historical Overview
30. Theme
31. Conflict
32. Symbols in Literature
33. Symbolism
34. Characters and Characterization
35. Metaphor
36. Point of View
37. How to Read Like a Writer
38. Modes of Exposition
39. Reading to Write Effectively
40. How to Write With Style
41. Creating an Effective Style
42. Structure in Literary Essays
43. Distinguish Between Primary and Secondary Sources
44. Using Databases: Periodical Indexes and Abstracts
45. Writing an Introduction to a Literary Analysis Essay
46. Creating MLA Works Cited Entries
47. MLA In-Text Citations
48. Annotated Bibliographies: An Illustrated Guide
49. The Nature of Analysis
50. How to Analyze a Novel
51. How to Analyze a Short Story
52. How to Analyze Poetry
53. How to Analyze a Film
54. Finding Literary Criticism
55. Reader-Response Criticism
56. Reader-Response Criticism
57. Introduction to Critical Theory
58. New Criticism
59. Multicultural Societies Explained
60. Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning," 1993
61. Billy Collins, "The Lanyard," 2007
62. Emily Dickinson, Poems Series One, 1890
63. Emily Dickinson, "Wild nights - Wild nights!" 1861
64. Robert Frost, "Acquainted with the Night," 1923
65. Robert Frost, "The Lockless Door," 1920
66. Biography: Langston Hughes
67. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
68. Langston Hughes, "Let America Be America Again," 1935
69. Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Poetical Works, 1845
70. Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven," 1845
71. Ezra Pound, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley, 1920
72. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Selected Works, 1855
73. Theodore Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz," 1961
74. Reader-response to "My Papa's Waltz"
75. Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market," 1862
76. William Shakespeare, Sonnets, 1609
77. Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind," 1891
78. Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773
79. Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer," 1865
80. William Carlos Williams, "The Red Wheelbarrow," 1962
81. Additional Poems
82. Omar Khayyam, "The Rubaiyat"
83. Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, Collected Poems
84. Anton Chekhov, "The Bear," 1888
85. Anton Chekhov, "The Cherry Orchard," 1904
86. Anton Chekhov, "The Three Sisters," 1900
87. Susan Glaspell, "Inheritors," 1921
88. Susan Glaspell, "The Outside," 1916
89. Susan Glaspell, "Trifles," 1916
90. Susan Glaspell, "The Verge," 1921
91. Langston Hughes and Zora Hurston, "The Mule-Bone," 1930
92. Henrik Ibsen, "A Doll's House," 1879
93. Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
94. Critical Reviews of Film Version of The Importance of Being Earnest
95. Video: White Zombie
96. Video: Night of the Living Dead
97. Video: Dawn of the Dead
98. Louisa May Alcott, "Scarlet Stockings," 1869
99. Ambrose Bierce, "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot," 1890
100. Henry Cuyler Bunner, "The Nice People," 1890
101. Willa Cather, "On the Gull's Road," 1908
102. Anton Chekhov, "Peasant Wives," 1891
103. Kate Chopin, "Regret," 1897
104. Kate Chopin, "The Story of an Hour," 1894
105. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1899
106. Joseph Conrad, "The Idiots," 1896
107. Philip K. Dick, "Beyond the Door," 1954
108. Charles Dickens, "The Signal-Man," 1866
109. Arthur Conan Doyle, "Scandal in Bohemia," 1891
110. F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Ice Palace," 1920
111. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Ethan Brand," 1850
112. Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown," 1835
113. Critical Responses to "Young Goodman Brown"
114. Kelly Link, "The Specialist's Hat," 1998
115. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper," 1892
116. Saki, "The Open Window," 1914
117. Mary Shelley, "The Mortal Immortal," 1833
118. Jim Shepard, "The Zero Meter Diving Team," 2007
119. Mark Twain, "Eve's Diary," 1905
120. Madhuri Vijay, "Lorry Raja," 2012
121. Analysis of "Lorry Raja"
122. Seduction of the Innocent
123. I Killed Mary
124. Amazing Fantasy #15: Spider-Man
125. Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
126. Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom, 1855
127. Henry David Thoreau, "Walden," 1854
128. Mark Twain, "Two Ways of Seeing A River," 1883
129. Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery, 1901
130. Zitkala-Sa, "The School Days of an Indian Girl," 1900
131. Other Creative Nonfiction Readings
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