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2. I Need Help
3. Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic
4. Literary Terms
5. Glossary of Literary Terms
6. Writing about Literature
7. Thesis Examples
8. How to Read Like a Writer
9. Literary Criticism
10. Literary Theory and Schools of Criticism
11. How to Analyze a Short Story
12. Assigned Reading: Kafka's "A Hunger Artist"
13. Assigned Reading: Chopin's "The Story of an Hour"
14. Assigned Reading: Bloom's "Silver Water"
15. Assigned Reading: Reed's "Birds and Other Things We Placed in Our Hearts"
16. Assigned Reading: Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain"
17. Assigned Reading: Bradbury's "The Veldt"
18. The Pleasure of Poetic Pattern
19. Assigned Reading: Collins' "Introduction to Poetry"
20. Assigned Reading: Lee Upton's "And Though She Be Little, She Be Fierce"
21. Assigned Reading: Monica Ferrell's "The Coin of Your Country"
22. Assigned Reading: Shankar's "Contraction"
23. Assigned Reading: Shakespeare "Sonnet 73"
24. Assigned Reading: Everwine's "Back from the Fields"
25. Assigned Reading: Everwine's "After the Funeral"
26. Assigned Reading: Komunyakaa's "Ghazal, After Ferguson"
27. Assigned Reading: Levine's "What Work Is"
28. Assigned Reading: Rossetti's "After Death"
29. Appendix 5: Writing an Analysis of a Poem, Story, or Play"
30. Assigned Reading: Trifles
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