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Preface | |
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A Guide To Writing About Literature | |
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Understanding Literature | |
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Understand Imaginative Literature | |
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Recognize Conventional Themes | |
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Understand the Literary Canon | |
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Luisa Valenzuela, All about Suicide | |
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Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation | |
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Interpret Literature | |
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Evaluate Literature | |
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Understand the Function of Literary Criticism | |
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Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism | |
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Reading and Writing about Literature | |
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Read Literature | |
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Previewing | |
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Highlighting | |
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Maya Angelou, My Arkansas | |
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Annotating | |
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Write about Literature | |
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Planning an Essay | |
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Drafting an Essay | |
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Revising and Editing an Essay | |
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Exercise: Two Student Papers | |
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Student Paper: Initiation into Adulthood | |
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Student Paper: Hard Choices | |
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Checklist: Using Highlighting Symbols | |
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Checklist: Using Sources | |
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Checklist: Conventions of Writing about Literature | |
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Writing Special Kinds of Papers | |
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Write a Response Paper | |
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Responding to a Short Story | |
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Student Paper: Response to Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" | |
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Responding to a Poem | |
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Write a Comparison-ContraSt. Comparing a Short Story and a Film | |
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Student Paper: Two Cathedrals | |
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Write an Explication | |
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Explicating a Poem | |
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Student Paper: A Lingering Doubt | |
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Write a Character Analysis | |
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Analyzing a Character in a Play | |
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Student Paper: Linda Loman: Breaking the Mold | |
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Write about a Work's Cultural Context | |
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Writing about a Poem's Cultural Context | |
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Student Paper: Dreaming of Home | |
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Checklist: Writing a Response Paper | |
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Checklist: Writing a Comparison-ContraSt | |
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Checklist: Writing an Explication | |
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Checklist: Writing a Character Analysis | |
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Checklist: Writing about a Work's Cultural Context | |
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Thinking Critically about Your Writing | |
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Distinguish Fact from Opinion | |
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Evaluate Supporting Evidence | |
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Detect Bias in Your Writing | |
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Understand Logic | |
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Inductive Reasoning | |
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Deductive Reasoning | |
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Toulmin Logic | |
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Recognizing Logical Fallacies | |
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Checklist: Detecting Bias | |
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Writing Literary Arguments | |
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Plan a Literary Argument | |
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Choosing a Debatable Topic | |
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Developing an Argumentative Thesis | |
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Defining Your Terms | |
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Considering Your Audience | |
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Refuting Opposing Arguments | |
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Use Evidence Effectively | |
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Supporting Your Literary Argument | |
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Establishing Credibility | |
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Being Fair | |
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Using Visuals as Evidence | |
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Organize a Literary Argument | |
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Writing a Literary Argument | |
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Student Paper: The Politics of "Everyday Use" | |
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Checklist: Developing an Argumentative Thesis | |
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Checklist: Being Fair | |
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Using Sources in Your Writing | |
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Choose a Topic | |
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Do Exploratory Research | |
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Narrow Your Topic | |
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Do Focused Research | |
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Library Research | |
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Internet Research | |
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Take Notes | |
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Integrate Sources | |
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Exercise: Integrating Quotations | |
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Draft a Thesis Statement | |
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Make a Formal Outline | |
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Draft Your Paper | |
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Evaluate a Model Literature Paper with MLA Documentation | |
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Student Paper: And Again She Makes the Journey | |
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Character and Act in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" | |
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Checklist: Evaluating Library Sources | |
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Checklist: Evaluating Web Sites | |
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Documenting Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism | |
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Avoid Plagiarism | |
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Document All Material That Requires Documentation | |
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Enclose Borrowed Words in Quotation Marks | |
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Do Not Imitate a Source's Syntax and Phrasing | |
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Differentiate Your Words from Those of Your Source | |
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Document Sources | |
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Parenthetical References in the Text | |
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The Works-Cited LiSt. Content Notes | |
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Checklist: Plagiarism and Internet Sources | |
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Checklist: Guidelines for Punctuating Parenthetical References | |
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Writing Essay Exams about Literature | |
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Plan an Essay Exam Answer | |
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Review Your Material | |
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Consider Your Audience and Purpose | |
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Read Through the Entire Exam | |
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Read Each Question Carefully | |
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Brainstorm to Find Ideas | |
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Shape an Essay Exam Answer | |
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State Your Thesis | |
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Make a Scratch Outline | |
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Draft and Revise an Essay Exam Answer | |
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Model Student Essay Exam Answer | |
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Fiction | |
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Understanding Fiction | |
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Identify the Origins of Modern Fiction | |
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The History of the Novel | |
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The History of the Short Story | |
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Define the Short Story | |
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Ernest Hemingway, Hills Like White Elephants | |
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Understand the Boundaries of Fiction | |
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Fiction Sampler: The Short-Short | |
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Define the Short-Short Story | |
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Snow | |
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The Plot | |
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Accident | |
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Love and Other Catastrophes: A Mix Tape | |
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Girl | |
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Buffalo Soldiers | |
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55 Miles to the Gas Pump | |
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Plot | |
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Recognize Conflict | |
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Recognize Stages of Plot | |
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Recognize Order and Sequence | |
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Graphic Story: Ben Katchor, Goner Pillow Company | |
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The Story of an Hour | |
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Kansas | |
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A Rose for Emily | |
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Writing Suggestions: Plot | |
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Checklist: Writing about Plot | |
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Character | |
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Recognize Round and Flat Characters | |
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Recognize Dynamic and Static Characters | |
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Understand Motivation | |
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Graphic Story: Art Spiegelman, Eye Ball | |
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A&P. | |
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Miss Brill | |
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Gryphon | |
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Writing Suggestions: Character | |
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Checklist: Writing about Character | |
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Setting | |
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Understand Historical Setting | |
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Understand Geographical Setting | |
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Understand Physical Setting | |
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Graphic Story | |
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From Persepolis | |
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The Storm | |
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This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona | |
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I Stand Here Ironing | |
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Writing Suggestions: Setting | |
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Checklist: Writing about Setting | |
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Point of View | |
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Recognize First-Person Narrators | |
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Unreliable Narrators | |
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Recognize Third-Person Narrators | |
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Omniscient Narrators | |
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Limited Omniscient Narrators | |
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Objective Narrators | |
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Understand the Uses of Point of View | |
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Graphic Story | |
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From The Arrival | |
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Big Black Good Man | |
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The Cask of Amontillado | |
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Barn Burning | |
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Writing Suggestions: Point of View | |
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Checklist: Selecting an Appropriate Point of View: Review | |
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Checklist: Writing about Point of View | |
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Style, Tone, and Language | |
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Understand Style and Tone | |
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Understand the Uses of Language | |
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Recognize Formal and Informal Diction | |
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Recognize Imagery | |
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Recognize Figures of Speech | |
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Graphic Story | |
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A Hunger ArtiSt | |
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Araby | |
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find | |
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The Things They Carried | |
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Writing Suggestions: Style, Tone, and Language | |
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Checklist: Writing about Style, Tone, and Language | |
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Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
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Recognize Symbols | |
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Literary Symbols | |
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Recognizing Symbols | |
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Recognize Allegory | |
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Recognize Myth | |
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Graphic Story | |
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From Fun Home | |
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The Lottery | |
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Everyday Use | |
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Cathedral | |
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Young Goodman Brown | |
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Writing Suggestions: Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
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Checklist: Writing about Symbol, Allegory, and Myth | |
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Theme | |
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Understand Theme | |
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Discover a Story's Theme | |
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Graphic Story | |
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Two Questions | |
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A Worn Path | |
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Doe Season | |
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The Rocking-Horse Winner | |
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Writing Suggestions: Theme | |
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Checklist: Writing about Theme | |
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Fiction for Further Reading | |
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Appreciate Different Kinds of Fiction | |
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Greasy Lake | |
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A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings | |
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The Yellow Wallpaper | |
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The Tell-Tale Heart | |
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The Secret Lion | |
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Two Kinds | |
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Poetry | |
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Understanding Poetry | |
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Poetry | |
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Poetry | |
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Identify the Origins of Modern Poetry | |
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Define Poetry | |
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That time of year thou mayst in me behold | |
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Recognize Kinds of Poetry | |
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Narrative Poetry | |
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Lyric Poetry | |
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Poetry Sampler: Poetry and Art | |
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Appreciate Poems about Art | |
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Sonnet in Primary Colors | |
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C?zanne's Ports | |
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Monet's "Waterlilies" | |
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Girl Powdering Her Neck | |
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The Tall Figures of Giacometti | |
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The Fun Gallery | |
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Writing Suggestions: Poetry and Art | |
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Voice | |
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I'm nobody! Who are you? | |
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Identify the Speaker in the Poem | |
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Gretel in Darkness | |
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My Grandmother Would Rock Quietly and Hum | |
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Negro | |
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