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  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne summary
  • A Child Called "It" by David Pelzer summary
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain summary
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck summary
  • A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor summary
  • A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind summary
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines summary
  • A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah summary
  • A Man For All Seasons by Robert Bolt summary
  • A Painted House by John Grisham summary
  • A Single Shard by Linda Sue Parker summary
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith summary
  • A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks summary
  • A Worn Path by Eudora Welty summary
  • A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris summary
  • Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank summary
  • All My Sons by Arthur Miller summary
  • All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg summary
  • All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren summary
  • Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez summary
  • An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser summary
  • Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare summary
  • April Morning by Howard Fast summary
  • Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw summary
  • Around the World in 80 (Eighty) Days by Jules Verne summary
  • Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer summary
  • As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner summary
  • As You Like It by William Shakespeare summary
  • Banner in the Sky by James Ullman summary
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison summary
  • Black Boy by Richard Wright summary
  • Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin summary
  • Bleachers by John Grisham summary
  • Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya summary
  • Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska summary
  • Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis summary
  • Candide by Voltaire summary
  • Ceremony by Leslie Marmom Silko summary
  • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier summary
  • Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns summary
  • Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody summary
  • Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi summary
  • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand summary
  • Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury summary
  • Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller summary
  • Demian by Hermann Hesse summary
  • Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe summary
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker summary
  • Dubliners by James Joyce summary
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck summary
  • Electra by Euripedes summary
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card summary
  • Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan summary
  • Everyman by Philip Roth summary
  • Exodus by Leon Uris summary
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury summary
  • Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston summary
  • Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser summary
  • Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev summary
  • Fences by August Wilson summary
  • Fifth Business by Robertson Davies summary
  • Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley, Ron Powers summary
  • Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes summary
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway summary
  • Friday Night Lights by H. G. "Buzz" Bissinger summary
  • Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin summary
  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell summary
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens summary
  • Harry Potter and the Socerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling summary
  • Hatchet by Gary Paulsen summary
  • Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen summary
  • Henry IV, Part 2 by William Shakespeare summary
  • Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare summary
  • Henry VI, Part 2 by William Shakespeare summary
  • Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare summary
  • Henry VIII by William Shakespeare summary
  • Hiroshima by John Hersey summary
  • Holes by Louis Sachar summary
  • Hoot by Carl Hiaasen summary
  • House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday summary
  • I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier summary
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou summary
  • Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee summary
  • Into the Wild by John Krakauer summary
  • Into Thin Air by John Krakauer summary
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison summary
  • Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell summary
  • Kindred by Octavia E. Butler summary
  • Life of Pi by Yann Martel summary
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott summary
  • Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry summary
  • Looking Backward: 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy summary
  • Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad summary
  • Lost Horizon by Jame Hilton summary
  • Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez summary
  • Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane summary
  • Main Street by Sinclair Lewis summary
  • Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli summary
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot summary
  • Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West summary
  • Moby Dick by Hermann Melville summary
  • Monster by Walter Dean Myers summary
  • Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder summary
  • My Antonia by Willa Cather summary
  • My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George summary
  • My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult summary
  • Native Son by Richard Wright summary
  • Nectar in a Sieve by Kamala Markandaya summary
  • Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich summary
  • No Promises in the Wind by Irene Hunt summary
  • Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky summary
  • Nothing But the Truth by Avi summary
  • Number the Stars by Lois Lowry summary
  • October Sky by Homer Hickam summary
  • Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck summary
  • On the Beach by Nevil Shute summary
  • On the Road by Jack Kerouac summary
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn summary
  • Our Town by Thornton Wilder summary
  • Out of This Furnace by Thomas Bell summary
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov summary
  • Passing by Nella Larsen summary
  • Peace Like a River by Leif Enger summary
  • Portrait of a Lady by Henry James summary
  • Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam summary
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor summary
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard summary
  • Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton summary
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen summary
  • Shane by Jack Schaefer summary
  • Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella summary
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson summary
  • Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. summary
  • Snow Falling On Cedars by David Guterson summary
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury summary
  • Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison summary
  • Sounder by W. H. Armstrong summary
  • Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson summary
  • Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli summary
  • Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse summary
  • Sula by Toni Morrison summary
  • Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene summary
  • Tangerine by Edward Bloor summary
  • The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton summary
  • The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone summary
  • The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton summary
  • The Assistant by Bernard Malamud summary
  • The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley summary
  • The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver summary
  • The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James summary
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath summary
  • The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison summary
  • The Book Thief by Markus Zusak summary
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder summary
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger summary
  • The Cay by Theodore Taylor summary
  • The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekov summary
  • The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier summary
  • The Chosen by Chaim Potok summary
  • The Cider House Rules by John Irving summary
  • The Color Purple by Alice Walker summary
  • The Contender by Robert Lipsyte summary
  • The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart summary
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon summary
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown summary
  • The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper summary
  • The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen summary
  • The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank summary
  • The Divine Comedy (The Inferno)(Dante's Inferno) by Dante Alighieri summary
  • the Dog in the Night-time summary
  • The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom summary
  • The Fixer by Bernard Malamud summary
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry summary
  • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls summary
  • The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck summary
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald summary
  • The Great Santini by Pat Conroy summary
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers summary
  • The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom summary
  • The Hot Zone by Richard Preston summary
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle summary
  • The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton summary
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros summary
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo summary
  • The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky summary
  • The Illiad by Homer summary
  • The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury summary
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde summary
  • The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells summary
  • The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan summary
  • The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini summary
  • The Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery summary
  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien summary
  • The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy summary
  • The Lost Boy by David Pelzer summary
  • The Lottery by Shirley Jackson summary
  • The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold summary
  • The Man Who Was Poe by Avi summary
  • The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury summary
  • The Member of the Wedding by Carson Mccullers summary
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare summary
  • The Miracle Worker by William Gibson summary
  • The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri summary
  • The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks summary
  • The Once and Future King by T. H. White summary
  • The Open Boat by Stephen Crane summary
  • The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton summary
  • The Ox-bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark summary
  • The Pact: A Love Story by Jodi Picoult summary
  • The Pigman by Paul Zindel summary
  • The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver summary
  • The Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce summary
  • The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy summary
  • The Red Pony by John Steinbeck summary
  • The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd summary
  • The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares summary
  • The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois summary
  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman summary
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus summary
  • The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare summary
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien summary
  • The Time Machine by H. G. Wells summary
  • The Trial by Franz Kafka summary
  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi summary
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James summary
  • The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells summary
  • The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot summary
  • The Wave by Todd Strasser summary
  • The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin summary
  • The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen summary
  • The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston summary
  • The World Is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman summary
  • There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz summary
  • Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe summary
  • Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson summary
  • Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare summary
  • Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare summary
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee summary
  • Tom Jones by Henry Fielding summary
  • Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck summary
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson summary
  • Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare summary
  • Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt summary
  • Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom summary
  • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne summary
  • Twilight by Stephenie Meyer summary
  • Typee by Hermann Melville summary
  • Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington summary
  • War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy summary
  • Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen summary
  • Watership Down by Richard Adams summary
  • Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher summary
  • When the Legends Die by Hal Borland summary
  • White Fang by Jack London summary
  • White Noise by Don Delillo summary
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jane Rhys summary
  • Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson summary

 

Poetry and poems

 

  • Romantic poetry
  • The fundamentals of poetry
  • 96 Vandam by Gerald Stern
  • A Birthday Candle by Donald Justice
  • A Birthday Poem by Ted Kooser
  • A Man I Knew by Margaret Levine
  • A New Poet by Linda Pastan
  • A Primer of the Daily Round by Howard Nemerov
  • A Shadow of a Nest by Gary Margolis
  • A Wreath to the Fish by Nancy Willard
  • Advice from the Experts by Bill Knott
  • After Us by Connie Wanek
  • After Years by Ted Kooser
  • Alley Cat Love Song by Dana Gioia
  • Animals by Miller Williams
  • At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border by William Stafford
  • Bad Day by Kay Ryan
  • Before She Died by Karen Chase
  • Before the World Intruded by Michele Rosenthal
  • Bike Ride with Older Boys by Laura Kasischke
  • Birth Day by Elise Paschen
  • Biscuit by Jane Kenyon
  • Blind by Charles Webb
  • Blue Willow by Jody Gladding
  • Break by Dorianne Laux
  • Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted by Shoshauna Shy
  • Cartoon Physics, part 1 by Nick Flynn
  • Cat Scat by Eamon Grennan
  • Coffee in the Afternoon by Alberto Ríos
  • Dandelion by Julie Lechevsky
  • Did I Miss Anything by Tom Wayman
  • Doing Without by David Ray
  • Domestic Work, 1937 by Natasha Trethewey
  • Dorie Off To Atlanta by Mark Halliday
  • Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly
  • Dutch Boy by Doug Dorph
  • Dutch by Kay Ryan
  • Eagle Plain by Robert Francis
  • End of April by Phillis Levin
  • Entrance by Dana Gioia
  • Fast Break by Edward Hirsch
  • Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
  • Fault by Ron Koertge
  • Football by Louis Jenkins
  • For My Daughter by David Ignatow
  • Forgiving Buckner by John Hodgen
  • Forgotten Planet by Doug Dorph
  • Foundations by Leopold Staff
  • From On Being Fired Again by Erin Belieu
  • Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain by Richard Brautigan
  • God Says Yes To Me by Kaylin Haught
  • Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer by Chris Forhan
  • Grammar by Tony Hoagland
  • Gratitude to Old Teachers by Robert Bly
  • Gretel by Andrea Hollander Budy
  • Halloween by Mac Hammond
  • Hand Shadows by Mary Cornish
  • Hate Poem by Julie Sheehan
  • Heat by Michael Chitwood
  • Her Head by Joan Murray
  • Herd Of Buffalo Crossing The Missouri On Ice by William Matthews
  • How Many Times by Marie Howe
  • How to Change a Frog Into a Prince by Anna Denise
  • How to Listen by Major Jackson
  • Immortality by Lisel Mueller
  • In the Well by Andrew Hudgins
  • It Took All My Energy by Tony Wallace
  • I've Been Known by Denise Duhamel
  • June 11 by David Lehman
  • Keats by Christopher Howell
  • Key To The Highway by Mark Halliday
  • Knowledge by Philip Memmer
  • Kyrie by Tomas Transtromer
  • Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space by Ron Padgett
  • Leaving the Island by Linda Pastan
  • Legs by Mark Halliday
  • Lesson by Forrest Hamer
  • Lift Your Right Arm by Peter Cherches
  • Lines by Martha Collins
  • Locals by James Lasdun
  • Loud Music by Stephen Dobyns
  • Love Poem With Toast by Miller Williams
  • Love Song by Carol Muske-Dukes
  • Loyal by William Matthews
  • Machines by Michael Donaghy
  • Marcus Millsap: School Day Afternoon by Dave Etter
  • Mentor by Timothy Murphy
  • Morning by Mary Oliver
  • My Daughters in New York by James Reiss
  • My Father's Hats by Mark Irwin
  • My Life by Joe Wenderoth
  • My Moral Life by Mark Halliday
  • Near the Wall of a House by Yehuda Amichai
  • Neglect by R. T. Smith
  • Nights by Kevin Hart
  • Not Swans by Susan Ludvigson
  • Notice by Steve Kowit
  • Numbers by Mary Cornish
  • Of Politics & Art by Norman Dubie
  • On a Cape May Warbler Who Flew Against My Window by Eamon Grennan
  • Once upon a Time There Was a Man by Mac Hammond
  • One Day A Woman by Miller Williams
  • One Morning by Eamon Grennan
  • Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
  • Our Other Sister by Jeffrey Harrison
  • Painting a Room by Katia Kapovich
  • Passer-by, these are words... by Yves Bonnefoy
  • Poetry by Don Paterson
  • Publication Date by Franz Wright
  • Radio by Laurel Blossom
  • Reckless Poem by Mary Oliver
  • Relearning Winter by Mark Svenvold
  • Remora, Remora by Thomas Lux
  • Rotary by Christina Pugh
  • Schoolboys with Dog, Winter by William Matthews
  • Selecting a Reader by Ted Kooser
  • Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? by Robert Hershon
  • She Didn't Mean to Do It by Daisy Fried
  • Sister Cat by Frances Mayes
  • Slow Children at Play by Cecilia Woloch
  • Small Comfort by Katha Pollitt
  • Smell and Envy by Douglas Goetsch
  • Smoking by Elton Glaser
  • Snow by David Berman
  • Soccer Moms by Paul Muldoon
  • Social Security by Terence Winch
  • Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
  • Song by Eamon Grennan
  • Summer in a Small Town by Linda Gregg
  • Sure by Arlene Tribbia
  • Thanks For Remembering Us by Dana Gioia
  • Thanksgiving by Mac Hammond
  • The Bagel by David Ignatow
  • The Bat by Theodore Roethke
  • The Birthday by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
  • The Blue Bowl by Jane Kenyon
  • The Cord by Leanne O’Sullivan
  • The Dead by Susan Mitchell
  • The Death of Santa Claus by Charles Webb
  • The Distances by Henry Rago
  • The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska
  • The Exchange by Ron Rash
  • The Farewell by Edward Field
  • The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
  • The Green One Over There by Katia Kapovich
  • The Hand by Mary Ruefle
  • The Hymn of a Fat Woman by Joyce Huff
  • The Kitchen Shears Speak by Christianne Balk
  • The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
  • The Meadow by Kate Knapp Johnson
  • The Moon by Robert Bly
  • The Partial Explanation by Charles Simic
  • The Poet by Tom Wayman
  • The Poetry of Bad Weather by Debora Greger
  • The Printer's Error by Aaron Fogel
  • The Rider by Naomi Shihab Nye
  • The Space Heater by Sharon Olds
  • The Student Theme by Ronald Wallace
  • The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
  • The Summer I Was Sixteen by Geraldine Connolly
  • The Swan at Edgewater Park by Ruth L. Schwartz
  • The Yawn by Paul Blackburn
  • This Moment by Eavan Boland
  • Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka by Oliver Rice
  • To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan
  • To Help the Monkey Cross the River, by Thomas Lux
  • To Stammering by Kenneth Koch
  • Tour by Carol Snow
  • Tuesday 9:00 AM by Denver Butson
  • Turtle by Kay Ryan
  • Unconditional Day by Julie Lechevsky
  • Walking to Oak-Head Pond, and Thinking of the Ponds I Will Visit in the Next Days and Weeks by Mary Oliver
  • Wan Chu's Wife In Bed by Richard Jones
  • Watching the Mayan Women by Luisa Villani
  • What I Would Do by Marc Petersen
  • Wheels by Jim Daniels
  • White-Eyes by Mary Oliver
  • Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper by Martín Espada
  • Witness by Martha Collins

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    Genres and Types of Writing

    absurd theatre

    allegory

    anecdote

    ballad

    black humor

    comic relief

    didactic

    dirge

    dystopia

    elegiac

    elegy

    epic

    epigraph

    epistolary

    epitaph

    epithet

    farce

    folk tale

    frame story

    genre

    gothic

    jevenalian satire

    lampoon

    magical realism

    melodramatic

    memoir

    mock epic

    monologue

    morality play

    novella

    parable

    parody

    pastiche

    pastoral

    prologue

    realism

    roman a clef

    romantic

    satire

    sentimentalism

    soliloquy

    southern gothic

    stream of consciousness

    style

    surrealism

    tragedy

    utopia

    Literary Analysis

    antagonist

    caricature

    climax

    denouement

    dramatic climax

    dramatic irony

    feminist theory criticism

    flat character

    historical/traditional criticism

    internal dialogue

    limited narrator

    marxist criticism

    objective narrator

    omniscient

    parallel scenes

    point of view

    protagonist

    psychological criticism

    reader response criticism

    round character

    tragic flaw

    unreliable narrator

    Poetry and Sound Devices

    anapest

    assonance

    blank verse

    cacophony

    caesura

    consonance

    couplet

    dactylic

    denotation

    diction

    dissonance

    dramatic poem

    end stop

    English Sonnet/Elizabethan

    enjambment

    euphony

    eye rhyme

    feminine rhyme

    free verse

    haiku

    heroic couplet

    iambic

    internal rhyme

    Italian Sonnet/Petrarchan

    limerick

    lyric poem

    masculine rhyme

    meter

    meter foot

    narrative poem

    occasional verse

    octave

    ode

    onomatopoeia

    parallel scenes

    pentameter

    poetic foot

    prosaic

    quatrain

    refrain

    rhythm

    scansion

    sestet

    sibilance

    slant rhyme

    sonnet

    sound devices

    speaker

    spondee

    stanza

    tercet

    tetrameter

    trimeter

    trochee

    verse

    villanelle

    Rhetorical Devices and Structure

    anaphora

    anastrophe

    antithesis

    asyndeton

    auxesis

    chiasmus

    double entendre

    epistrophe

    erotema

    exegesis

    in media res

    paradox

    pathetic fallacy

    polysyndeton

    repetition

    rhetorical question

    rhetorical strategy

    synchesis

    tri-colon crescens

    tri-colon descens

    zeugma

    Figurative Language and Literary devices

    alliteration

    allusion

    anachronism

    analogy

    apostrophe

    archetype

    aside

    cliché

    conceit

    colloquial

    eponym

    euphemism

    extended metaphor

    figurative language

    flashback

    hyperbole

    imagery

    irony

    kenning

    litote

    malapropism

    metaphor

    metonymy

    mixed metaphor

    mood

    oxymoron

    palindrome

    personification

    overt personification

    ulterior personification

    pun

    repartee

    sarcasm

    simile

    situational irony

    symbol

    synecdoche

    synethesia

    theme

    thesis

    tone

    trope

    understatement

    verbal irony

    vernacular

     

     

    United States Authors Classic (to do)

     

     

    English Authors (to do)

     

     

    World Authors (to do)

     

     

    Victorian Novelists

     

    1803-1873                  Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer (Bulwer-Lytton)

    Paul Clifford (1830); Eugene Aram (1832);

    The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) - historical novels

     

    1805-1882                  William Harrison Ainsworth (historical novels)

    Jack Sheppard (1839)

     

    1810-1865                  Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

    Mary Barton (1848); Cranford (1851-53); Ruth (1853);

    North and South (1854-55); Wives and Daughters

    (1864-66)

     

    1811-1863                  William Makepeace Thackeray

    Barry Lyndon (1844/1856); Henry Esmond (1852);

    Pendennis (1848-50); The Newcomes (1853-55)

     

    1812-1870                  Charles Dickens

     

    1814-1873                  Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu

    The Purcell Papers (1880); The House by the Churchyard (1863); Uncle Silas (1864)

     

    1814-1884                  Charles Reade

    Christie Johnstone (1853)

    It is Never Too Late to Mend (1856)

    The Cloister and the Hearth (1861)

     

    1815-1882                  Anthony Trollope

    The Warden (1855); Barchester Towers (1857); Doctor Thorne (1858); Last Chronicle of Barset (1866-67)

    1816-1855                  Charlotte Brontë

    The Professor; Jane Eyre (1847); Shirley (1849); Villette (1853)

     

    1818-1848                  Emily Jane Brontë

    Wuthering Heights (1847)

     

    1820-1849                  Anne Brontë

    Agnes Grey (1847); The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)

     

    1819-1880                  George Eliot (Mary Anne/Marian Evans)

    Scenes of Clerical Life (1857)

    Adam Bede (1859); The Mill on the Floss (1860); Silas Marner (1861); Romola (1862-63); Felix Holt (1866); Middlemarch (1871-72); Daniel Deronda (1876)

     

    1819-1875                  Charles Kingsley

    Westward Ho! (1855)

     

    1824-1889                  William Wilkie Collins

    The Woman in White (1859-60); The Moonstone (1868)

     

    1825-1900                  Richard Doddridge Blackmore

    Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor (1869)

     

    1828-1909                  George Meredith

    The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859);

    The Egoist (1879)

     

    1828-1897                  Margaret Oliphant

     

    1835-1902                  Samuel Butler

    Erewhon (1872); The Way of all Flesh (1873)

     

    1836-1901                  Sir Walter Besant (novels about the working class)

    All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882)

     

    1839-1894                  Walter Horatio Pater

    Marius the Epicurean (1885)

     

    1840-1928                  Thomas Hardy

    Under the Greenwood Tree (1872); A Pair of Blue Eyes (1872-73); Far From the Madding Crowd (1874); The Return of the Native (1878); The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886); The Woodlanders (1886-87); Wessex Tales (1888); Tess of the d´Urbervilles (1891); Jude the Obscure (1894-95)

     

    1850-1894                  Robert Louis Stevenson

    The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

    Kidnapped (1886); The Master of Ballantrae (1888-89)

     

    1852-1933                  George Moore

     

    1856-1925                  Sir Henry Rider Haggard

    King Solomon´s Mines (1885); She (1886-87)

     

    1857-1903                  George Robert Gissing

    New Grub Street (1891); The Odd Women (1893)

     

    1859-1930                  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

     

     

    Poetry and poems

     

    • 96 Vandam by Gerald Stern
    • A Birthday Candle by Donald Justice
    • A Birthday Poem by Ted Kooser
    • A Man I Knew by Margaret Levine
    • A New Poet by Linda Pastan
    • A Primer of the Daily Round by Howard Nemerov
    • A Shadow of a Nest by Gary Margolis
    • A Wreath to the Fish by Nancy Willard
    • Advice from the Experts by Bill Knott
    • After Us by Connie Wanek
    • After Years by Ted Kooser
    • Alley Cat Love Song by Dana Gioia
    • Animals by Miller Williams
    • At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border by William Stafford
    • Bad Day by Kay Ryan
    • Before She Died by Karen Chase
    • Before the World Intruded by Michele Rosenthal
    • Bike Ride with Older Boys by Laura Kasischke
    • Birth Day by Elise Paschen
    • Biscuit by Jane Kenyon
    • Blind by Charles Webb
    • Blue Willow by Jody Gladding
    • Break by Dorianne Laux
    • Bringing My Son to the Police Station to be Fingerprinted by Shoshauna Shy
    • Cartoon Physics, part 1 by Nick Flynn
    • Cat Scat by Eamon Grennan
    • Coffee in the Afternoon by Alberto Ríos
    • Dandelion by Julie Lechevsky
    • Did I Miss Anything by Tom Wayman
    • Doing Without by David Ray
    • Domestic Work, 1937 by Natasha Trethewey
    • Dorie Off To Atlanta by Mark Halliday
    • Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter by Robert Bly
    • Dutch Boy by Doug Dorph
    • Dutch by Kay Ryan
    • Eagle Plain by Robert Francis
    • End of April by Phillis Levin
    • Entrance by Dana Gioia
    • Fast Break by Edward Hirsch
    • Fat Is Not a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen
    • Fault by Ron Koertge
    • Football by Louis Jenkins
    • For My Daughter by David Ignatow
    • Forgiving Buckner by John Hodgen
    • Forgotten Planet by Doug Dorph
    • Foundations by Leopold Staff
    • From On Being Fired Again by Erin Belieu
    • Gee, You're So Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain by Richard Brautigan
    • God Says Yes To Me by Kaylin Haught
    • Gouge, Adze, Rasp, Hammer by Chris Forhan
    • Grammar by Tony Hoagland
    • Gratitude to Old Teachers by Robert Bly
    • Gretel by Andrea Hollander Budy
    • Halloween by Mac Hammond
    • Hand Shadows by Mary Cornish
    • Hate Poem by Julie Sheehan
    • Heat by Michael Chitwood
    • Her Head by Joan Murray
    • Herd Of Buffalo Crossing The Missouri On Ice by William Matthews
    • How Many Times by Marie Howe
    • How to Change a Frog Into a Prince by Anna Denise
    • How to Listen by Major Jackson
    • Immortality by Lisel Mueller
    • In the Well by Andrew Hudgins
    • It Took All My Energy by Tony Wallace
    • I've Been Known by Denise Duhamel
    • June 11 by David Lehman
    • Keats by Christopher Howell
    • Key To The Highway by Mark Halliday
    • Knowledge by Philip Memmer
    • Kyrie by Tomas Transtromer
    • Ladies and Gentlemen in Outer Space by Ron Padgett
    • Leaving the Island by Linda Pastan
    • Legs by Mark Halliday
    • Lesson by Forrest Hamer
    • Lift Your Right Arm by Peter Cherches
    • Lines by Martha Collins
    • Locals by James Lasdun
    • Loud Music by Stephen Dobyns
    • Love Poem With Toast by Miller Williams
    • Love Song by Carol Muske-Dukes
    • Loyal by William Matthews
    • Machines by Michael Donaghy
    • Marcus Millsap: School Day Afternoon by Dave Etter
    • Mentor by Timothy Murphy
    • Morning by Mary Oliver
    • My Daughters in New York by James Reiss
    • My Father's Hats by Mark Irwin
    • My Life by Joe Wenderoth
    • My Moral Life by Mark Halliday
    • Near the Wall of a House by Yehuda Amichai
    • Neglect by R. T. Smith
    • Nights by Kevin Hart
    • Not Swans by Susan Ludvigson
    • Notice by Steve Kowit
    • Numbers by Mary Cornish
    • Of Politics & Art by Norman Dubie
    • On a Cape May Warbler Who Flew Against My Window by Eamon Grennan
    • Once upon a Time There Was a Man by Mac Hammond
    • One Day A Woman by Miller Williams
    • One Morning by Eamon Grennan
    • Otherwise by Jane Kenyon
    • Our Other Sister by Jeffrey Harrison
    • Painting a Room by Katia Kapovich
    • Passer-by, these are words... by Yves Bonnefoy
    • Poetry by Don Paterson
    • Publication Date by Franz Wright
    • Radio by Laurel Blossom
    • Reckless Poem by Mary Oliver
    • Relearning Winter by Mark Svenvold
    • Remora, Remora by Thomas Lux
    • Rotary by Christina Pugh
    • Schoolboys with Dog, Winter by William Matthews
    • Selecting a Reader by Ted Kooser
    • Sentimental Moment or Why Did the Baguette Cross the Road? by Robert Hershon
    • She Didn't Mean to Do It by Daisy Fried
    • Sister Cat by Frances Mayes
    • Slow Children at Play by Cecilia Woloch
    • Small Comfort by Katha Pollitt
    • Smell and Envy by Douglas Goetsch
    • Smoking by Elton Glaser
    • Snow by David Berman
    • Soccer Moms by Paul Muldoon
    • Social Security by Terence Winch
    • Some Clouds by Steve Kowit
    • Song by Eamon Grennan
    • Summer in a Small Town by Linda Gregg
    • Sure by Arlene Tribbia
    • Thanks For Remembering Us by Dana Gioia
    • Thanksgiving by Mac Hammond
    • The Bagel by David Ignatow
    • The Bat by Theodore Roethke
    • The Birthday by Elizabeth Seydel Morgan
    • The Blue Bowl by Jane Kenyon
    • The Cord by Leanne O’Sullivan
    • The Dead by Susan Mitchell
    • The Death of Santa Claus by Charles Webb
    • The Distances by Henry Rago
    • The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska
    • The Exchange by Ron Rash
    • The Farewell by Edward Field
    • The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
    • The Green One Over There by Katia Kapovich
    • The Hand by Mary Ruefle
    • The Hymn of a Fat Woman by Joyce Huff
    • The Kitchen Shears Speak by Christianne Balk
    • The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
    • The Meadow by Kate Knapp Johnson
    • The Moon by Robert Bly
    • The Partial Explanation by Charles Simic
    • The Poet by Tom Wayman
    • The Poetry of Bad Weather by Debora Greger
    • The Printer's Error by Aaron Fogel
    • The Rider by Naomi Shihab Nye
    • The Space Heater by Sharon Olds
    • The Student Theme by Ronald Wallace
    • The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
    • The Summer I Was Sixteen by Geraldine Connolly
    • The Swan at Edgewater Park by Ruth L. Schwartz
    • The Yawn by Paul Blackburn
    • This Moment by Eavan Boland
    • Timely Enumerations Concerning Sri Lanka by Oliver Rice
    • To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan
    • To Help the Monkey Cross the River, by Thomas Lux
    • To Stammering by Kenneth Koch
    • Tour by Carol Snow
    • Tuesday 9:00 AM by Denver Butson
    • Turtle by Kay Ryan
    • Unconditional Day by Julie Lechevsky
    • Walking to Oak-Head Pond, and Thinking of the Ponds I Will Visit in the Next Days and Weeks by Mary Oliver
    • Wan Chu's Wife In Bed by Richard Jones
    • Watching the Mayan Women by Luisa Villani
    • What I Would Do by Marc Petersen
    • Wheels by Jim Daniels
    • White-Eyes by Mary Oliver
    • Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper by Martín Espada
    • Witness by Martha Collins

     

     

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