A World of Fiction 2 Timeless Short Stories

by Marcus, Sybil; Berman, Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780133046175
• ISBN10: 0133046176
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-01-12
• Publisher: Pearson Education ESL

Summary

A World of Fiction calls upon students' diverse language and critical thinking skills as they discover the pleasure and rewards of reading fiction. This expanded series (Level 1: High Intermediate; Level 2: Advanced) is designed to help students sharpen their reading, vocabulary, grammar, and writing skills. Each level contains 16 unabridged stories.

Highlights

• The stories are ideal for literary analysis, language practice, and lively cross-cultural discussion.
• Each level features selections by noteworthy authors — (Book 1) Raymond Carver, Dorothy
  Parker, Tim O’Brien, and Kate Chopin. (Book 2) James Joyce, Louise Erdrich, Woody Allen,
  and Alice Walker.
• Reading selections guide students through understanding plots, exploring themes, analyzing styles,
  making judgments and cross-cultural connections, and debating the issues that are explored.
• Extended Vocabulary in Context sections cover idioms, phrasal verbs, and other areas of
  vocabulary enrichment.
• Writing activities include both expository and creative assignments in which students are led to
  incorporate the language skills featured in the chapter.
• Expanded Critical Thinking sections encourage students to analyze stories and connect them to their own experiences. 

Table of Contents

HUSBANDS, WIVES, AND LOVERS

 

1 Can-Can    Arturo Vivante
    Analyzing Style         Irony
                                        Symbol
    Grammar in Context    Forms Ending in —ing
    Vocabulary Building     Fixed Expressions with and
                                            Unfamiliar Words

 

2 The Cranes   Peter Meinke
    Analyzing Style     Inference
                                        Setting
                                        Simile
                                        Black Humor
    Grammar in Context     Wishes
    Vocabulary Building     Prepositions
                                             Oxymoron

 

3 The Kugelmass Episode    Woody Allen
    Analyzing Style     Dialogue
                                        Flat Characters
                                        Anachronism
                                        Allusion
    Grammar in Context     The Passive Voice
    Vocabulary Building     Verbs That Introduce Dialogue
                                               Idioms

 

4 An Intruder  Nadine Gordimer
    Analyzing Style     Simile and Metaphor
    Grammar in Context     Adjective Clauses
                                            Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Adjective Clauses
    Vocabulary Building       Adjectives

 

 

PARENT AND CHILD

 

5 Powder   Tobias Wolff
    Analyzing Style     Repetition
                                        Alliteration
    Grammar in Context     Participial Phrases
                                                Dangling Modifiers
                                                Sentence Fragments
    Vocabulary Building     Alliterative Expressions
                                             Prepositions

 

6 Mother   Grace Paley
    Analyzing Style     Flashback
                                        Tone
    Grammar in Context     Past Tenses
    Vocabulary Building     Words in Context

 

7 Eveline    James Joyce
    Analyzing Style     Imagery
                                        Flashback
    Grammar in Context     Parallel Structure: Coordinating Conjunctions
                                                Parallel Structure: Correlative Conjunctions
    Vocabulary Building     Descriptive Verbs
                                                Idiomatic Expressions

 

8 My Oedipus Complex   Frank O’Connor
    Analyzing Style     Humor
    Grammar in Context     Linking Verbs
                                      Phrasal Verbs
    Vocabulary Building     Denotation and Connotation

 

LONELINESS AND ALIENATION

 

9 Disappearing   Monica Wood
    Analyzing Style     Ellipsis
                                        Imagery
    Grammar in Context     Agreement of Pronoun and Antecedent
                                                Indefinite Pronouns
    Vocabulary Building     Dealing with Unfamiliar Words

 

10 A Pair of Silk Stockings   Kate Chopin
    Analyzing Style     Inference
    Grammar in Context     Reflexive Pronouns
    Vocabulary Building     Collocations with Noncount Nouns
                                               Adjectives

 

11 Everyday Use   Alice Walker
    Analyzing Style     Round Characters
                                      First-Person Narration
    Grammar in Context     Prepositional Phrases
                                            The Expression Used To
    Vocabulary Building     Phrasal Verbs

 

12 The Red Convertible    Louise Erdrich
    Analyzing Style     Point of View
                                     Voice
                                     Foreshadowing
    Grammar in Context     Compound Sentences
    Vocabulary Building     Phrasal Verbs with Multiple Meanings

 

 

SOCIAL CHANGE AND INJUSTICE

13 EPICAC   Kurt Vonnegut
    Analyzing Style     Personification
                                    Colloquialisms
    Grammar in Context     Adverbs
                                            Irregular Adverbs
    Vocabulary Building     Confusing Word Pairs
                                            Idioms Containing Body Parts

 

14 Like A Winding Sheet   Ann Petry
    Analyzing Style     Dialect
                                    Imagery
    Grammar in Context     Adverbial Clauses
                                            Punctuation of Adverbial Clauses
    Vocabulary Building     Synonyms

 

15 A Drink in The Passage   Alan Paton
    Analyzing Style     Frame Story
                                    Irony
                                    Inference
    Grammar in Context     Conditionals
    Vocabulary Building     Prepositions

 

16 The Catbird Seat   James Thurber
    Analyzing Style     Understatement
    Grammar in Context     Noun Clauses
    Vocabulary Building     Idioms Containing Colors
                                             Legal Vocabulary