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Introduction
What is literature and why do we study it?
Chapter 3-Plot
Chapter 4-Characterization
Chapter 16-Modern Drama
Chapter 5-Setting
Chapter 6-Point of view
Chapter 7-Symbolism
Chapter 8-Theme
Chapter 9-Style, Tone, and Irony
Chapter 10-Introduction to Poetry
Chapter 11-Imagery in Poetry
Chapter 12-Figures of Speech
Chapter 13-Sounds in Poetry
Chapter 14-Forms of poetry
Chapter 15-Reading Drama
"The Birthmark"
"The Cask of Amontillado"
"Bartleby the Scrivner"
"A Sorrowful Woman"
"Charles"
"The Emissary"
"The Enormous Radio"
"Eveline"
"The Flowers"
"The Most Dangerous Game"
"A Good Man is Hard to Find"
"The Open Window"
"A Rose for Emily"
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty"
"Soldier's Home"
The Story of An Hour
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
"Annabel Lee"
"The Author to Her Book"
"Death Be Not Proud"
"Digging"
"How Do I Love Thee"
"I Hear America Singing"
"Jabberwocky"
"Khubla Khan; or a Vision in a Dream"
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like the Sun"
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"Not Waving But Drowning"
"Ode on Solitude"
"We Real Cool"
"Ironing Their Clothes"
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
The Importance of Being Earnest
Trifles
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Gwendolyn Brooks
Mrs. Dalloway
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Dracula
Chronological Approach
By Format
By Content
By Human Experience
Glossary
Index
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
By James Thurber (1894-1961)
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