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The smallest and most economical member of the Kennedy/Gioia family,Backpack Literature is a brief paperback version of the discipline's most popular introduction to literature anthology. Like its bigger, bestselling predecessors,Backpack Literaturefeatures the authors' collective poetic voice which brings personal warmth and a human perspective to the discussion of literature, adding to students' interest in the readings. New selections have been added including four new one-act plays to help "ease" students into the study of this genre. The new plays include two comedies-- David Ives's,Sure Thingand Jane Martin'sBeauty-as well as Terrence McNally's poignantAndre's Motherand Edward Bok Lee's experimental dramaEl Santo Americano.

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Table of Contents = new selection vs. Backpack 3e Contents Preface To the Instructor About the Authors Fiction Talking with Amy Tan 1 Reading a Story The Art of Fiction Types of Short Fiction W. Somerset Maugham The Appointment in Samarra A servant tries to gallop away from Death in this brief sardonic fable retold in memorable form by a popular storyteller. Aesop The Fox and the Grapes Ever wonder where the phrase �sour grapes� comes from? Find out in this classic fable. Bidpai The Camel and His Friends With friends like these, you can guess what the camel doesn�t need. Chuang Tzu Independence The Prince of Ch�u asks the philosopher Chuang Tzu to become his advisor and gets a surprising reply in this classic Chinese fable. Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm Godfather Death Neither God nor the Devil came to the christening. In this stark folktale, a young man receives magical powers with a string attached. Plot The Short Story John Updike A & P In walk three girls in nothing but bathing suits, and Sammy finds himself no longer an aproned checkout clerk but an armored knight. Writing Effectively THINKING about Plot Checklist: Writing about Plot Writing Assignment on Plot More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 2 Point of View Identifying Point of View Types of Narrators Stream of Consciousness William Faulkner A Rose for Emily Proud, imperious Emily Grierson defied the town from the fortress of her mansion. Who could have guessed the secret that lay within? Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart The smoldering eye at last extinguished, a murderer finds that, despite all his attempts at a cover-up, his victim will be heard. Jamaica Kincaid Girl �Try to walk like a lady, and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming.� An old-fashioned mother tells her daughter how to live. Virginia Woolf A Haunted House Whatever hour you woke a door was shutting. From room to room the ghostly couple walked, hand in hand. Writing Effectively THINKING about Point of View CHECKLIST: Writing about Point of View Writing Assignment on Point of View More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 3 Character Types of Characters Katherine Anne Porter The Jilting of Granny Weatherall For sixty years Ellen Weatherall has fought back the memory of that terrible day, but now once more the priest waits in the house. Katherine Mansfield Miss Brill Sundays had long brought joy to solitary Miss Brill, until one fateful day when she happened to share a bench with two lovers in the park. Alice Walker, Everyday Use When successful Dee visits from the city, she has changed her name to reflect her African roots. Her mother and sister notice other things have changed, too. Raymond Carver Cathedral He had never expected to find himself trying to describe a cathedral to a blind man. He hadn�t even wanted to meet this odd, old friend of his wife. Writing Effectively Thinking about Character Checklist: Writing about Character Writing Assignment on Character More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 4 Setting Elements of Setting Regionalism Kate Chopin The Storm Even with her husband away, Calixta feels happily, securely married. Why then should she not shelter an old admirer from the rain? Jorge Luis Borges The Gospel According to Mark A young man from Buenos Aires is trapped by a flood on an isolated ranch. To pass the time he reads the Gospel to a family with unforeseen results. Jack London To Build a Fire Seventy-five degrees below zero. Alone except for one mistrustful wolf dog, a man finds himself battling a relentless force. Amy Tan A Pair of Tickets A young woman flies with her father to China to meet two half sisters she never knew existed. Writing Effectively THINKING about Setting CHECKLIST: Writing about Setting Writing Assignment on Setting More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 5 Tone and Style Tone Style Diction Ernest Hemingway A Clean, Well-Lighted Place All by himself each night, the old man lingers in the bright caf�. What does he need more than brandy? William Faulkner Barn Burning This time when Ab Snopes wields his blazing torch, his son Sarty faces a dilemma: whether to obey or defy the vengeful old man. Irony O. Henry The Gift of the Magi A young husband and wife find ingenious ways to buy each other Christmas presents, in the classic story that defines the word �irony.� Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour �There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name.� Writing Effectively THINKING about Tone and Style CHECKLIST: Writing about Tone and Style Writing Assignment on Tone and Style More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 6 Theme Plot vs. Theme Theme as Unifying Device Finding the Theme ZZ Packer Brownies A brownie troop of African American girls at camp declare war on a rival troop only to discover their humiliating mistake. Stephen Crane The Open Boat In a lifeboat circled by sharks, tantalized by glimpses of land, a reporter scrutinizes Fate and learns about comradeship. Luke 15:11�32 The Parable of the Prodigal Son A father has two sons. One demands his inheritance now and leaves to spend it with ruinous results. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Harrison Bergeron Are you handsome? Off with your eyebrows! Are you brainy? Let a transmitter sound thought-shattering beeps inside your ear. Writing Effectively THINKING about Theme CHECKLIST: Writing about Theme Writing Assignment on Theme More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 7 Symbol Allegory Symbols Recognizing Symbols John Steinbeck The Chrysanthemums Fenced-in Elisa feels emotionally starved�then her life promises to blossom with the arrival of the scissors-grinding man. Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper A doctor prescribes a �rest cure� for his wife after the birth of their child. The new mother tries to settle in to life in the isolated and mysterious country house they have rented for the summer. The cure proves worse than the disease in this Gothic classic. Ursula K. Le Guin The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Omelas is the perfect city. All of its inhabitants are happy. But everyone�s prosperity depends on a hidden evil. Shirley Jackson The Lottery Splintered and faded, the sinister black box had worked its annual terror for longer than anyone in town could remember. Writing Effectively THINKING about Symbols CHECKLIST: Writing about Symbols Writing Assignment on Symbols More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 8 Stories for Further Reading Chinua Achebe Dead Men�s Path The new headmaster of the village school was determined to fight superstition, but the villagers did not agree. Sherman Alexie This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona The only one who can help Victor when his father dies is a childhood friend he�s been avoiding for years. Isabel Allende The Judge�s Wife Revenge can take many forms, but few are as strange as the revenge taken in this passionate tale. Margaret Atwood Happy Endings John and Mary meet. What happens next? This witty experimental story offers five different outcomes. T. Coraghessan Boyle Greasy Lake Murky and strewn with beer cans, the lake appears a wasteland. On its shore three �dangerous characters� learn a lesson one grim night. Sandra Cisneros The House on Mango Street Does where we live tell what we are? A little girl dreams of a new house, but things don�t always turn out the way we want them to. Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown Urged on through deepening woods, a young Puritan sees�or dreams he sees�good villagers hasten toward a diabolic rite. James Joyce Araby If only he can find her a token, she might love him in return. As night falls, a Dublin boy hurries to make his dream come true. Franz Kafka Before the Law A man from the country comes in search of the Law. He never guesses what will prevent him from finding it in this modern parable. Joyce Carol Oates Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Alone in the house, Connie finds herself helpless before the advances of a spellbinding imitation teenager, Arnold Friend. Tim O�Brien The Things They Carried What each soldier carried into the combat zone was largely determined by necessity, but each man�s necessities differed. Flannery O�Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find Wanted: The Misfit, a cold-blooded killer. An ordinary family vacation leads to horror�and one moment of redeeming grace. Eudora Welty A Worn Path When the man said to old Phoenix, �you must be a hundred years old, and scared of nothing,� he might have been exaggerating, but not by much. Poetry Talking with Kay Ryan 9 Reading a Poem Poetry or Verse Reading a Poem Paraphrase William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree Lyric Poetry Robert Hayden Those Winter Sundays Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer�s Tigers Narrative Poetry Anonymous Sir Patrick Spence Robert Frost �Out, Out�� Dramatic Poetry Robert Browning My Last Duchess Didactic Poetry Writing Effectively Thinking about Paraphrase William Stafford Ask Me William Stafford A Paraphrase of �Ask Me� Checklist: Writing a Paraphrase Writing Assignment on Paraphrasing More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 10 Listening to a Voice Tone Theodore Roethke My Papa�s Waltz Countee Cullen For a Lady I Know Anne Bradstreet The Author to Her Book Walt Whitman To a Locomotive in Winter Emily Dickinson I like to see it lap the Miles Gwendolyn Brooks Speech to the Young. Speech to the Progress-Toward Weldon Kees For My Daughter The Person in the Poem Natasha Trethewey White Lies Edwin Arlington Robinson Luke Havergal Ted Hughes Hawk Roosting Anonymous Dog Haiku Langston Hughes Theme for English B Anne Sexton Her Kind William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow Irony Robert Creeley Oh No W. H. Auden The Unknown Citizen Sharon Olds Rite of Passage Edna St. Vincent Millay Second Fig Thomas Hardy The Workbox For Review and Further Study Julie Sheehan Hate Poem Richard Lovelace To Lucasta Wilfred Owen Dulce et Decorum Est Writing Effectively Thinking About TONE Checklist: Writing about Tone Writing Assignment on Tone More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 11 Words Literal Meaning: What a Poem Says First William Carlos Williams This Is Just to Say Diction Marianne Moore Silence John Donne Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You The Value of a Dictionary Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Aftermath Kay Ryan Mockingbird Carl Sandburg Grass Samuel Menashe Bread J. V. Cunningham Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead J. V. Cunningham Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead Word Choice and Word Order Robert Herrick Upon Julia�s Clothes Thomas Hardy The Ruined Maid For Review and Further Study E. E. Cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town Wendy Cope Lonely Hearts Anonymous Carnation Milk Gina Vald�s English con Salsa Lewis Carroll Jabberwocky Writing Effectively Thinking about Diction Checklist: writing about Diction Writing Assignment on Word Choice More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 12 Saying and Suggesting Denotation and Connotation William Blake London Wallace Stevens Disillusionment of Ten O�Clock Gwendolyn Brooks The Bean Eaters Robert Frost Fire and Ice Diane Thiel The Minefield Rhina Espaillat Bilingual/Biling�e A. R. Ammons , Coward Alfred, Lord Tennyson Tears, Idle Tears Richard Wilbur Love Calls Us to the Things of This World Writing Effectively Thinking about Denotation and Connotation Checklist: Writing about What a Poem Says and Suggests Writing Assignment on Denotation and Connotation More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 13 Imagery Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro Taniguchi Buson The piercing chill I feel Imagery T. S. Eliot The winter evening settles down Theodore Roethke Root Cellar Elizabeth Bishop The Fish Emily Dickinson A Route of Evanescence Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty Jean Toomer Reapers About Haiku Arakida Moritake The falling flower Matsuo Basho Heat-lightning streak Matsuo Basho In the old stone pool Taniguchi Buson On the one-ton temple bell Taniguchi Buson Moonrise on mudflats Kobayashi Issa only one guy Kobayashi Issa Cricket Haiku from Japanese Internment Camps Suiko Matsushita Rain shower from mountain Suiko Matsushita Cosmos in bloom Hakuro Wada Even the croaking of frogs Neiji Ozawa The war�this year Contemporary Haiku Etheridge Knight Making jazz swing in Adelle Foley Learning to Shave Gary Snyder After weeks of watching the roof leak Garry Gay Hole in the ozone For Review and Further Study John Keats Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art William Carlos Williams El Hombre Li Po, Translated by Arthur Waley Drinking Alone by Moonlight Billy Collins Embrace Stevie Smith Not Waving but Drowning Robert Bly Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter Writing Effectively Thinking About Imagery Checklist: Writing about imagery Writing Assignment on Imagery More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 14 Figures of Speech Why Speak Figuratively? Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle William Shakespeare Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer�s day? Howard Moss Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer�s Day? Metaphor and Simile Alfred, Lord Tennyson Flower in the Crannied Wall William Blake To see a world in a grain of sand Emily Dickinson My Life had stood � a Loaded Gun Sylvia Plath Metaphors Jill Alexander Essbaum The Heart N. Scott Momaday Simile Craig Raine A Martian Sends a Postcard Home Other Figures of Speech James Stephens The Wind Margaret Atwood You fit into me Timothy Steele Epitaph Dana Gioia Money Carl Sandburg Fog For Review and Further Study Robert Frost The Silken Tent Harryette Mullen Dim Lady Kay Ryan Turtle John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn Emily Bront� Love and Friendship Writing Effectively Thinking About Metaphors Checklist: Writing about Metaphors Writing Assignment on Figures of Speech More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 15 Sound Sound as Meaning William Butler Yeats Who Goes with Fergus? William Wordsworth A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Aphra Behn When maidens are young Alliteration and Assonance A. E. Housman Eight O�Clock Alfred, Lord Tennyson The splendor falls on castle walls Rime Kevin Young Doo Wop Hilaire Belloc The Hippopotamus William Butler Yeats Leda and the Swan Gerard Manley Hopkins God�s Grandeur Robert Frost Desert Places Reading Poems Aloud Michael Stillman In Memoriam John Coltrane Writing Effectively Thinking About a Poem�s Sound Checklist: Writing about a Poem�s Sound Writing Assignment on Sound More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 16 Rhythm Stresses and Pauses Gwendolyn Brooks We Real Cool Alfred, Lord Tennyson Break, Break, Break Dorothy Parker R�sum� Meter Edna St. Vincent Millay Counting-out Rhyme A. E. Housman When I was one-and-twenty Walt Whitman Beat! Beat! Drums! Langston Hughes Dream Boogie Writing Effectively Thinking About Rhythm Checklist: Scanning a Poem Writing Assignment on Rhythm More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 17 Closed Form Formal Patterns John Keats This living hand, now warm and capable Robert Graves Counting the Beats John Donne Song (�Go and catch a falling star�) Ballads Anonymous Bonny Barbara Allan Dudley Randall Ballad of Birmingham The Sonnet William Shakespeare Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds Edna St. Vincent Millay What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why Robert Frost Acquainted with the Night R. S. Gwynn Shakespearean Sonnet Amit Majmudar Rites to Allay the Dead The Epigram Sir John Harrington Of Treason Langston Hughes Two Somewhat Different Epigrams John Frederick Nims Contemplation Dorothy Parker The Actress Other Forms Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask Elizabeth Bishop Sestina Writing Effectively Thinking About a Sonnet Checklist: Writing about a Sonnet Writing Assignment on a Sonnet More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 18 Open Form Denise Levertov Ancient Stairway Free Verse E. E. Cummings Buffalo Bill �s W. S. Merwin For the Anniversary of My Death William Carlos Williams The Dance Stephen Crane The Wayfarer Walt Whitman Cavalry Crossing a Ford Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Prose Poetry Charles Simic The Magic Study of Happiness For Review and Further Study E. E. Cummings in Just- Carole Satyamurti I Shall Paint My Nails Red Langston Hughes I, Too Writing Effectively Thinking About Free Verse Checklist: Writing about Line Breaks Writing Assignment on Open Form More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 19 Symbol The Meanings of a Symbol T. S. Eliot The Boston Evening Transcript Emily Dickinson The Lightning is a yellow Fork Identifying Symbols Thomas Hardy Neutral Tones Yusef Komunyakaa Facing It Allegory Matthew 13:24�30 The Parable of the Good Seed Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Christina Rossetti Uphill For Review and Further Study Mary Oliver Wild Geese Lorine Niedecker Popcorn-can cover Wallace Stevens Anecdote of the Jar Writing Effectively Thinking About Symbols Checklist: Writing about Symbols Writing Assignment on Symbolism More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 20 Myth and Narrative Origins of Myth Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay William Wordsworth The world is too much with us H. D. Helen Archetype Louise Bogan Medusa A. E. Stallings First Love: A Quiz Personal Myth William Butler Yeats The Second Coming Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus Myth and Popular Culture Anne Sexton Cinderella Writing Effectively THINKING ABOUT MYTH Checklist: WRITINg About Myth Writing Assignment on Myth More Topics for Writing TERMS FOR REVIEW 21 What Is Poetry? Archibald MacLeish Ars Poetica Dante, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gwendolyn Brooks, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, W. H. Auden, Jos� Garcia Villa, Christopher Fry, Elizabeth Bishop, Joy Harjo, Charles Simic Some Definitions of Poetry 22 Poems for Further Reading Aaron Abeyta thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla Kim Addonizio First Poem for You Sherman Alexie The Powwow at the End of the World Matthew Arnold Dover Beach Margaret Atwood Siren Song W. H. Auden September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden Mus�e des Beaux Arts Elizabeth Bishop One Art William Blake The Tyger Gwendolyn Brooks the mother Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways Robert Browning Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Charles Bukowski Dostoevsky Judith Ortiz Cofer Qui�cea�era Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan Billy Collins Care and Feeding E. E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond Emily Dickinson Wild Nights - Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson I heard a Fly buzz � when I died Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death John Donne Death be not proud John Donne The Flea Rita Dove Daystar T. S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Robert Frost Birches Robert Frost Mending Wall Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Allen Ginsberg A Supermarket in California Thomas Hardy Hap Seamus Heaney Digging George Herbert Easter Wings Robert Herrick To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time Gerard Manley Hopkins Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover A. E. Housman Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman To an Athlete Dying Young Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes Harlem [Dream Deferred] Randall Jarrell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Robinson Jeffers Rock and Hawk Ha Jin Missed Time Ben Jonson On My First Son Donald Justice Men at Forty John Keats n Ode to a Nightingale John Keats To Autumn Philip Larkin Poetry of Departures D. H. Lawrence Piano Shirley Geok-lin Lim Learning to love America Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress Edna St. Vincent Millay Recuerdo John Milton When I consider how my light is spent Sharon Olds The One Girl at the Boys� Party Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Sylvia Plath Daddy Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee Ezra Pound The River-Merchant�s Wife: A Letter Henry Reed Naming of Parts Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy William Shakespeare Sonnet 55: Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments William Shakespeare Sonnet 130: My mistress� eyes are nothing like the sun Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice-Cream Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ulysses Dylan Thomas Fern Hill John Updike Ex-Basketball Player Derek Walcott Sea Grapes Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain! Richard Wilbur The Writer William Carlos Williams Spring and All William Carlos Williams Queen-Anne�s-Lace William Wordsworth Composed upon Westminster Bridge James Wright Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio Mary Sidney Wroth In this strange labyrinth William Butler Yeats Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop William Butler Yeats Sailing to Byzantium William Butler Yeats When You Are Old Drama Talking with David Ives 23 Reading a Play Theatrical Conventions Elements of a Play Susan Glaspell Trifles Was Minnie Wright to blame for the death of her husband? While the menfolk try to unravel a mystery, two women in the kitchen turn up revealing clues. Analyzing Trifles Writing Effectively THINKING about a Play CHECKLIST: Writing about a Play Writing Assignment on Conflict MORE Topics for Writing Terms for Review 24 Modes of Drama: Tragedy and Comedy Tragedy Christopher Marlowe Scene From Doctor Faustus (Act 2, Scene 1) In this scene from the classic drama, a brilliant scholar sells his soul to the devil. How smart is that? Comedy David Ives Sure Thing Bill wants to pick up Betty in a cafe, but he makes every mistake in the book. Luckily, he not only gets a second chance, but a third and a fourth as well Writing Effectively Thinking about Comedy Checklist: Writing about Comedy Writing Assignment on Comedy Topics for Writing About Tragedy Topics for Writing About Comedy Terms for Review 25 The Theater of Sophocles The Theater of Sophocles The Civic Role of Greek Drama Aristotle�s Concept of Tragedy Sophocles The Origins of Oedipus the King Sophocles Oedipus the King (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) �Who is the man proclaimed / by Delphi�s prophetic rock / as the bloody handed murderer / the doer of deeds that none dare name? / . . . Terrribly close on his heels are the Fates that never miss.� Writing Effectively THINKING about Greek Tragedy CHECKLIST: Writing about Greek Drama Writing Assignment on Sophocles More Topics for Writing Terms for Review 26 The Theater of Shakespeare The Theater of Shakespeare William Shakespeare A Note on Othello Picturing Othello William Shakespeare Othello, the Moor of Venice 1368 Here is a story of jealousy, that �green-eyed monster which doth mock / The meat it feeds on��of a passionate, suspicious man and his blameless wife, of a serpent masked as a friend. Writing Effectively Understanding Shakespeare Checklist:writing about shakespeare Writing Assignment on Tragedy More Topics for Writing 27 The Modern Theater Realism Henrik Ibsen A Doll�s House (Translated by R. Farquharson Sharp, Revised by Viktoria Michelsen) The founder of modern drama portrays a troubled marriage. Helmer, the bank manager, regards his wife Nora as a �little featherbrain��not knowing the truth may shatter his smug world. Experimental Drama Edward Bok Lee El Santo Americano A wrestler and his unhappy wife drive through the desert to a surprising conclusion. Writing Effectively THINKING about Dramatic Realism CHECKLIST: Writing about Realism Writing Assignment on Realism More Topics for Writing Terms for Review 28 Plays for Further Reading Jane Martin Beauty We�ve all wanted to be someone else at one time or another. But what would happen if we got our wish? *Terrence McNally Andre�s Mother After Andre�s funeral the four people who loved him most walk into Central Park together. Three of them talk about their grief, but Andre�s mother remains silent about her son, dead of AIDS. Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie Painfully shy and retiring, shunning love, Laura dwells in a world as fragile as her collection of tiny figurines�until one memorable night a gentleman comes to call. August Wilson Fences A proud man�s love for his family is choked by his rigidity and self-righteousness, in this powerful drama by a great American playwright of our time. WRITING 29-Writing About Literature Read Actively Robert Frost Nothing Gold Can Stay Think About the Reading Plan Your Essay Prewriting: Discover Your Ideas Sample Student Prewriting Exercises Develop a Literary Argument Checklist: Developing an Argument Write a Rough Draft Sample Student Rough Draft On Robert Frost�s �Nothing Gold Can Stay� Revise Your Draft Checklist: Revising Your Draft Some Final Advice on Rewriting Sample Student Revised Draft Lost Innocence in Robert Frost�s �Nothing Gold Can Stay� What�s Your Purpose? Common Approaches to Writing About Literature 2083 Explication Sample Student Paper By Lantern Light: An Explication of a Passage in Poe�s �The Tell-Tale Heart� Robert Frost Design Sample Student Paper An Unfolding of Robert Frost�s �Design� Analysis Sample Student Paper Faded Beauty: Bishop�s Use of Imagery in �The Fish� Sample Student Paper Othello: Tragedy or Soap Opera? Comparison and Contrast Sample Student Paper Successful Adaptation in �A Rose for Emily� and �Miss Brill� Response Paper Sample Student Paper Response to Tim O�Brien�s �The Things They Carried� The Form of Your Finished Paper Topics for Writing on Fiction Topics for Brief Papers Topics for More Extended Papers Topics for Long Papers Topics for Writing on Poetry Topics for Brief Papers Topics for More Extended Papers Topics for Long Papers Topics for Writing on Drama Topics for Brief Papers Topics for More Extended Papers Topics for Long Papers 30 Writing a Research Paper Browse the Research Choose a Topic Begin Your Research Print Resources Online Databases Reliable Web Sources Checklist:Finding Reliable Sources Visual Images Checklist: Using Visual Images Evaluate Your Sources Print Resources Web Resources Checklist: Evaluating Your Sources Organize Your Research Organize Your Paper Maintain Academic Integrity Acknowledge All Sources quotations Citing Ideas Document Sources Using MLA Style Parenthetical References Works-Cited List Citing Print Sources in MLA Style Citing WeB Sources in MLA Style Sample List of Works Cited Reference Guide for Citations Credits Index of Authors and Titles Index of Literary Terms


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