Backpack Literature

** = new selection vs. Backpack 2e Fiction **Talking with Amy Tan 1 Reading a Story The Art of Fiction Types of Short Fiction W. Somerset Maugham n 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 n The North Wind and the Sun The North Wind and the Sun argue who is stronger and decide to try their powers on an unsuspecting traveler. **Bidpai n The Tortoise and the Geese A fable that gives another dimension to Andrew Lang's quip, "He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue." Chuang Tzu n 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 n 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 n 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 n 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 n 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. **Eudora Welty n Why I Live at the P. O. Since no one appreciates Sister, she decides to live at the Post Office. After meeting her family, you won't blame her. 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 n 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 n 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. **Naguib Mahfouz n The Lawsuit He thought he'd seen the last of his late father's second wife, but now she's back to trouble his peaceful existence. Raymond Carver n 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 Historical Fiction Regionalism Naturalism Kate Chopin n The Storm Even with her husband away, Calixta feels happily, securely married. Why then should she not shelter an old admirer from the rain? **Virginia Woolf n A Haunted House Whatever hour you woke a door was shutting. From room to room the ghostly couple walked, hand in hand. **Jack London n 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 n 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 n A Clean, Well-Lighted Place All by himself each night, the old man lingers in the bright cafe. What does he need more than brandy? William Faulkner n 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 n 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." 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 Chinua Achebe n Dead Men's Path The new headmaster of the village school was determined to fight superstition, but the villagers did not agree. **Stephen Crane n 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 n 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. n 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 n The Chrysanthemums Fenced-in Elisa feels emotionally starved--then her life promises to blossom with the arrival of the scissors-grinding man. **John Cheever n The Swimmer A man decides to swim home through his neighbors' pools, but the water turns out to be much deeper than he realized. **Ursula K. Le Guin n 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 n 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 **Sherman Alexie n 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. Margaret Atwood n Happy Endings John and Mary meet. What happens next? This witty experimental story offers five different outcomes. Kate Chopin n 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." Sandra Cisneros n 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. Charlotte Perkins Gilman n 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. 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. Zora Neale Hurston n Sweat Delia's hard work paid for her small house. Now her drunken husband Sykes has promised it to another woman. James Joyce n 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 n 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. **Jhumpa Lahiri n Interpreter of Maladies Mr. Kapasi's life had settled into a quiet pattern--and then Mrs. Das and her family came into it. Joyce Carol Oates n 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 n 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 n 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. 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. Poetry Talking with Kay Ryan 9 Reading a Poem Poetry or Verse Reading a Poem Paraphrase William Butler Yeats n The Lake Isle of Innisfree Lyric Poetry Robert Hayden n Those Winter Sundays Adrienne Rich n Aunt Jennifer's Tigers Narrative Poetry Anonymous n Sir Patrick Spence Robert Frost n "Out, Out--" Dramatic Poetry Robert Browning n My Last Duchess Didactic Poetry Writing Effectively thinking about Paraphrase William Stafford n Ask Me William Stafford n 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 n My Papa's Waltz Countee Cullen n For a Lady I Know Anne Bradstreet n The Author to Her Book Walt Whitman n To a Locomotive in Winter Emily Dickinson n I like to see it lap the Miles **Kevin Young n Doo Wop Weldon Kees n For My Daughter The Person in the Poem Natasha Trethewey n White Lies Edwin Arlington Robinson n Luke Havergal Ted Hughes n Hawk Roosting Langston Hughes n Theme for English B Anne Sexton n Her Kind William Carlos Williams n The Red Wheelbarrow Irony Robert Creeley n Oh No W. H. Auden n The Unknown Citizen **Sharon Olds n Rite of Passage Edna St. Vincent Millay n Second Fig Thomas Hardy n The Workbox For Review and Further Study **William Blake n The Chimney Sweeper Richard Lovelace n To Lucasta Wilfred Owen n 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 n This Is Just to Say Diction Marianne Moore n Silence John Donne n Batter my heart, three-personed God, for You The Value of a Dictionary Henry Wadsworth Longfellow n Aftermath **Kay Ryan n Chemise J. V. Cunningham n Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead Carl Sandburg n Grass **Anonymous n Dog Haiku Word Choice and Word Order Robert Herrick n Upon Julia's Clothes Thomas Hardy n The Ruined Maid For Review and Further Study E. E. Cummings n anyone lived in a pretty how town Wendy Cope n Lonely Hearts **Billy Collins n The Names Anonymous n Carnation Milk Gina Valdes n English con Salsa Lewis Carroll n 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 n London Wallace Stevens n Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock Gwendolyn Brooks n Southeast Corner Robert Frost n Fire and Ice **Diane Thiel n The Minefield Rhina Espaillat n Bilingual/Bilingue **Ron Rash n The Day the Gates Closed Alfred, Lord Tennyson n Tears, Idle Tears **Richard Wilbur n 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 n In a Station of the Metro Taniguchi Buson n The piercing chill I feel Imagery T. S. Eliot n The winter evening settles down Theodore Roethke n Root Cellar Elizabeth Bishop n The Fish Emily Dickinson n A Route of Evanescence Gerard Manley Hopkins n Pied Beauty Jean Toomer n Reapers About Haiku Arakida Moritake n The falling flower Matsuo Basho n Heat-lightning streak Matsuo Basho n In the old stone pool Taniguchi Buson n On the one-ton temple bell **Taniguchi Buson n Moonrise on mudflats Kobayashi Issa n only one guy Kobayashi Issa n Cricket Etheridge Knightn Making jazz swing in Lee Gurga n Visitor's Room **Penny Harter n broken bowl **Jennifer Brutschy n Born Again For Review and Further Study John Keats n Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art Robert Bly n Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter **Paul Goodman n Birthday Cake **Billy Collins n Embrace Stevie Smith n Not Waving but Drowning 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 n The Eagle William Shakespeare n Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Howard Moss n Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Metaphor and Simile Alfred, Lord Tennyson n Flower in the Crannied Wall William Blake n To see a world in a grain of sand Emily Dickinson n My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun Sylvia Plath n Metaphors N. Scott Momaday n Simile **Emily Dickinson n It dropped so low -- in my Regard **Craig Raine n A Martian Sends a Postcard Home Other Figures of Speech James Stephens n The Wind Margaret Atwood n You fit into me **George Herbert n The Pulley Dana Gioia n Money **Carl Sandburg n Fog For Review and Further Study Robert Frost n The Silken Tent Robert Frost n The Secret Sits **Kay Ryan n Turtle Robert Burns n Oh, my love is like a red, red rose 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 Alexander Pope n True Ease in Writing comes from Art, not Chance William Butler Yeats n Who Goes with Fergus? **William Wordsworth n A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal **Aphra Behn n When maidens are young Alliteration and Assonance A. E. Housman n Eight O'Clock Alfred, Lord Tennyson n The splendor falls on castle walls Rime William Cole n On my boat on Lake Cayuga Hilaire Belloc n The Hippopotamus **William Butler Yeats n Leda and the Swan Gerard Manley Hopkins n God's Grandeur **Robert Frost n Desert Places Reading Poems Aloud Michael Stillman n 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 n We Real Cool Alfred, Lord Tennyson n Break, Break, Break Dorothy Parker n Resume Meter Edna St. Vincent Millay n Counting-out Rhyme A. E. Housman n When I was one-and-twenty Walt Whitman n Beat! Beat! Drums! **Langston Hughes n 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 n This living hand, now warm and capable Robert Graves n Counting the Beats John Donne n Song ("Go and catch a falling star") Ballads Anonymous n Bonny Barbara Allan Dudley Randall n Ballad of Birmingham The Sonnet William Shakespeare n Let me not to the marriage of true minds Claude McKay n America Edna St. Vincent Millay n What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why **Robert Frost n Acquainted with the Night R. S. Gwynn n Shakespearean Sonnet **The Epigram **Alexander Pope n Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog **Sir John Harrington n Of Treason **Hilaire Belloc n Fatigue **Wendy Cope n Variation on Belloc's "Fatigue" Other Forms Dylan Thomas n Do not go gentle into that good night Elizabeth Bishop n 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 n Ancient Stairway Free Verse E. E. Cummings n Buffalo Bill 's **William Carlos Williams n The Dance Stephen Crane n In the desert Walt Whitman n Cavalry Crossing a Ford Wallace Stevens n Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Prose Poetry **Carolyn Forche n The Colonel For Review and Further Study E. E. Cummings n in Just- ** A. E. Stallings n First Love: A Quiz Langston Hughes n 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 n The BostonEvening Transcript Emily Dickinson n The Lightning is a yellow Fork Identifying Symbols Thomas Hardy n Neutral Tones Yusef Komunyakaa n Facing It Allegory Matthew 13:24--30 n The Parable of the Good Seed **George Herbert n The World Robert Frost n The Road Not Taken **Christina Rossetti n Uphill For Review and Further Study ** Mary Oliver n Wild Geese Lorine Niedecker n Popcorn-can cover Wallace Stevens n 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 n Nothing Gold Can Stay **William Wordsworth n The world is too much with us **H. D. n Helen Archetype **Louise Bogan n Medusa Personal Myth **William Butler Yeats n The Second Coming ** Sylvia Plath n Lady Lazarus Myth and Popular Culture **Anne Sexton n 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? Dante, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Mina Loy, W. H. Auden, Jose Garcia Villa, Christopher Fry, Elizabeth Bishop, Joy Harjo, Charles Simic n Some Definitions of Poetry 22 Poems for Further Reading **Aaron Abeyta n thirteen ways of looking at a tortilla ** Sherman Alexie n The Powwow at the End of the World **Anonymous n Last Words of the Prophet Matthew Arnold n Dover Beach Margaret Atwood n Siren Song **W. H. Auden n September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden n Musee des Beaux Arts **Jimmy Santiago Baca n Spliced Wire **Elizabeth Bishop n Filling Station Elizabeth Bishop n One Art William Blake n The Tyger **Gwendolyn Brooks n the mother Elizabeth Barrett Browning n How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways **Robert Browning n Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister Judith Ortiz Cofer n Quinceanera Samuel Taylor Coleridge n Kubla Khan Billy Collins n Care and Feeding E. E. Cummings n somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond Emily Dickinson n I'm Nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson n I heard a Fly buzz -- when I died Emily Dickinson n Because I could not stop for Death John Donne n Death be not proud John Donne n The Flea **Rita Dove n Daystar Paul Laurence Dunbar n We Wear the Mask T. S. Eliot n The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock **Robert Frost n Birches Robert Frost n Mending Wall Robert Frost n Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Allen Ginsberg n A Supermarket in California **Thomas Hardy n The Darkling Thrush Seamus Heaney n Digging George Herbert n Easter Wings Robert Herrick n To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time **Tony Hoagland n Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins n Spring and Fall Gerard Manley Hopkins n The Windhover A. E. Housman n Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman n To an Athlete Dying Young Langston Hughes n The Negro Speaks of Rivers Langston Hughes n Harlem [Dream Deferred] Randall Jarrell n The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner Robinson Jeffers n To the Stone-cutters Ben Jonson n On My First Son Donald Justice n On the Death of Friends in Childhood John Keats n Ode on a Grecian Urn **John Keats n To Autumn Philip Larkin n Home is so Sad D. H. Lawrence n Piano **Denise Levertov n The Ache of Marriage Shirley Geok-lin Lim n Learning to love America Andrew Marvell n To His Coy Mistress **Edna St. Vincent Millay n Recuerdo John Milton n When I consider how my light is spent **Howard Nemerov n The War in the Air Pablo Neruda, Translated by Alastair Reid n We Are Many **Lorine Niedecker n Sorrow Moves in Wide Waves Sharon Olds n The One Girl at the Boys' Party Wilfred Owen n Anthem for Doomed Youth Sylvia Plath n Daddy **Edgar Allan Poe n Annabel Lee Alexander Pope n A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing Ezra Pound n The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter Henry Reed n Naming of Parts Edwin Arlington Robinson n Miniver Cheevy William Shakespeare n When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes **William Shakespeare n That time of year thou mayst in me behold William Shakespeare n My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun Percy Bysshe Shelley n Ozymandias Wallace Stevens n The Emperor of Ice-Cream Alfred, Lord Tennyson n Ulysses Dylan Thomas n Fern Hill John Updike n Ex-Basketball Player Derek Walcott n The Virgins **Walt Whitman n I Hear America Singing **Walt Whitman n O Captain! My Captain! Richard Wilbur n The Writer William Carlos Williams n Spring and All **William Carlos Williams n To Waken an Old Lady William Wordsworth n Composed upon Westminster Bridge James Wright n Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio **Mary Sidney Wroth n In this strange labyrinth **William Butler Yeats n Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop William Butler Yeats n When You Are Old William Butler Yeats n Sailing to Byzantium Drama **Talking with David Ives 23 Reading a Play 1223 Theatrical Conventions Elements of a Play Susan Glaspell n 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 1249 Tragedy Christopher Marlowe n 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 n Soap Opera Should a man choose a mere human lover instead of pure perfection? The world turns on the answer. 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 1277 The Theater of Sophocles 1277 The Civic Role of Greek Drama 1280 Aristotle's Concept of Tragedy 1282 Sophocles 1283 The Origins of Oedipus the King Sophocles n Oedipus the King (Translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald) 1285 "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 1364 The Theater of Shakespeare 1365 William Shakespeare 1366 A Note on Othello 1367 **Picturing Othello 1367 William Shakespeare n 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 1671 More Topics for Writing 1676 27 The Modern Theater 1677 Realism Experimental Drama Henrik Ibsen n 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. **Anna Deavere Smithn Scenes from Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 The violence that tore apart a city, in the words of those who were there. 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 1763 **David Henry Hwang n The Sound of a Voice 1976 A strange man arrives at a solitary woman's home in the remote countryside. As they fall in love, they discover disturbing secrets about one another's past. **Jane Martin n Tattoo 1269 When all three of your current one-and-only girlfriends put their heads together, it can't be good. Tennessee Williams n The Glass Menagerie 1836 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 n Fences 1996 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 n Nothing Gold Can Stay Think About the Reading Plan Your Essay Discover Your Ideas Sample Student Prewriting Exercises Develop a Literary Argument Checklist Developing an Argument Write a Rough Draft Sample Student Paper n (Rough Draft) Revise Your Draft Checklist Revising Your Draft Some Final Advice on Rewriting Sample Student Paper n (revised Draft) What's Your Purpose? Common Approaches to Writing About Literature 2083 Explication: Sample Student Paper n By Lantern Light: An Explication of a passage in Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" Robert Frost n Design Sample Student Paper n An Unfolding of Robert Frost's "Design" Analysis: Sample Student Paper n Faded Beauty: Bishop's Use of Imagery in "The Fish" Sample Student Paper n Othello: Tragedy or Soap Opera? Comparison and Contrast: Sample Student Paper n Successful Adaptation in "A Rose for Emily" and "Miss Brill" **Response paper **Sample Student Paper n 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