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Summary
This text is designed to be used in any literature anthology, Introduction to Literature, or literature-based composition courses. It contains sections on the short story, plays, poetry, and the novel, as well as sections on film, writing a research paper and other types of literature-based composition. The book is full of exercises and contains numerous student sample essays.
Table of Contents
Preface
Alternate Contents by Genre
Alternate Contents Additional Themes
CHAPTER 1. Why Read Literature?
Exercise
Why Do You Read Literature?
Why Do We Read Literature?
Bridging the Gap
Responding to What You Read
Exercise
ROBERT FROST, The Road Not Taken
Sample Student Response to The Road Not Taken
Commentary
Exercise
Considering Evidence to Support Your Response
Close Active Reading
Sample Oral Response to The Road Not Taken
Commentary
Exercise
Keeping a Reading Journal
Guidelines: Keeping a Reading Journal
CHAPTER 2. Joining the Conversation: Ways of Talking about Literature
PATRICIA GRACE, Butterflies (short story)
Responding to Butterflies
LANGSTON HUGHES, Theme for English B (poem)
Responding to Theme for English B
WENDY WASSERSTEIN, The Man in a Case (play)
Responding to The Man in a Case
E. B. WHITE, Education (essay)
Responding to Education
The Vocabulary of Literature
Actions and Events
Plot
Structure
Conflict
Irony of Situation
Box: Terms Related to Actions and Events
Exercises: Actions and Events
People
Characters: Listening and Observing
Listening
Observing
Characters: Growing and Changing
Characters: Point of View
Author and Speaker
Narrator
People in Nonfiction
Box: Terms Related to People
Exercises: People
Places and Times
Time and Place: The Cultures of the Work, the Writer, and the Reader
Place
Time
Box: Terms Related to Places and Times
Exercises: Places and Times
Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Style
Tone
Diction
Syntax
Rhythm and Rhyme
Figurative Language
Verbal Irony
Allusions
Box: Trems Related to Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Exercises: Words and Images, Sounds and Patterns
Ideas
Exercises: Ideas
CHAPTER 3. Continuing the Conversation: Considering Genre and Listening to Other Voices
Expectations: Short Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction
Distinctions: Short Fiction and Drama
Distinctions: Poetry
MARGARET ATWOOD, you fit into me
Distinctions: Nonfiction
An Introduction to Short Fiction
Early Forms of Fiction
Allegory
Myth
Legend
Fairy Tale
Fable
Parable
Modern Short Fiction
The Realistic Short Story
The Nonrealistic Short Story
A Word about Fiction and Truth
Guidelines: Short Fiction
An Introduction to Poetry
Suggestions for Reading Poetry
Types of Poetry
Guidelines: Poetry
An Introduction to Drama
Suggestions for Reading Drama
Traditional Forms of Drama
Modern Forms of Drama
Types of Drama
Guidelines: Drama
An Introduction to Nonfiction
Suggestions for Reading Speeches
Suggestions for Reading Letters
Suggestions for Reading Documents
Suggestions for Reading Journals and Diaries
Suggestions for Reading Essays
Guidelines: Nonfiction
Considering Other Voices
Authors Commentaries and Interviews
Reviews
Scholarly Criticism
CHAPTER 4. Writing About Literature
DYLAN THOMAS, Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
Responding to Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
JOAN ALESHIRE, Slipping
Responding to Slipping
Preparing to Write About Literature
Understanding the Assignment
Thinking about the Assignment
Assignment Topics
Writing to Respond
Topic 1
Discovering Ideas: Journal Entries
Considering Audience
Narrowing the Topic
Devising a Preliminary Thesis Statement
Planning and Organizing
Drafting
Changes, KAREN ANGSTROM (draft student paper)
Revising Focus: Titles, Openings, Conclusions
Karen Angstroms Revision List
Editing Focus: To Be, Expletives, Passive Voice
Karen Angstroms Editing List
Proofreading Focus: Fragments and Comma Splices
Exercise
Final Copy: Writing to Respond
Changes: For Better or Worse? KAREN ANGSTROM (Student Paper)
Exercise
Guidelines: Writing a Response
Writing to Compare
Topic 2
Discovering Ideas: Discussion and Collaboration
Box: Strategies for Collaborative Work
Considering Audience, Narrowing the Topic, and Devising a Preliminary Thesis
Drafting
Responses: Raging Versus Slipping, WALTER JOHNSON (draft student paper)