Fiction. Talking with Amy Tan --
Reading a story --
The art of fiction --
Types of short fiction --
Death has an appointment in Samarra / Sufi Legend --
The north wind and the sun / Aesop --
The tortoise and the geese / Bidpai --
Independence / Chuang Tzu --
Godfather death / Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm --
Plot --
The short story --
A & P / John Updike --
Writing effectively --
Point of view --
Identifying point of view --
Types of narrators --
How much does a narrator know? --
Stream of consciousness --
[A Rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) / William Faulkner --
[Tell-tale Heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) / Edgar Allan Poe --
Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty --
Girl / Jamaica Kincaid --
Writing effectively --
Character --
Characterization --
Motivation --
The jilting of Granny Weatherall / Katherine Anne Porter --
Bullet in the brain / Tobias Wolff --
Everyday use / Alice Walker --
Cathedral / Raymond Carver --
Writing effectively --
Setting --
Elements of setting --
Historical fiction --
Regionalism --
Naturalism --
The storm / Kate Chopin --
To build a fire / Jack London --
The gospel according to Mark / Jorge Luis Borges --
A pair of tickets / Amy Tan --
Writing effectively --
Tone and Style --
Tone --
Style --
Diction --
A clean, well-lighted place / Ernest Hemingway --
[Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner --
Irony --
The necklace / Guy de Maupassant --
[The story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin --
Writing effectively --
Theme --
Plot versus theme --
Summarizing the theme --
Finding the theme --
Dead men's path / Chinua Achebe --
The house on Mango Street / Sandra Cisneros --
The parable of the prodigal son / Luke --
Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut Jr. --
Writing effectively --
Symbol --
Allegory --
Symbols --
Recognizing symbols --
The chrysanthemums / John Steinbeck --
The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman --
The ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin --
The lottery / Shirley Jackson --
Writing effectively --
Stories for further reading --
This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona / Sherman Alexie --
Happy endings / Margaret Atwood --
[Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
The gift of the magi / O. Henry --
Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston --
Saboteur / Ha Jin --
[Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce --
Before the law / Franz Kafka --
Miss Brill / Katherine Mansfield --
Where are you going, where have you been? / Joyce Carol Oates --
The things they carried / Tim O'Brien --
A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor --
Tell them not to kill me! / Juan Rulfo --
A haunted house / Virginia Woolf --
Poetry. Talking with Kay Ryan --
Reading a poem --
Poetry or verse --
How to read a poem --
Paraphrase --
The Lake Isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats --
Lyric poetry --
Those winter Sundays / Robert Hayden --
Aunt Jennifer's tigers / Adrienne Rich --
Narrative poetry --
Sir Patrick Spence / Anonymous --
"Out, out --" / Robert Frost --
Dramatic poetry --
My last duchess / Robert Browning --
Didactic poetry --
Writing effectively --
Ask me / William Stafford --
Listening to a voice --
Tone --
My papa's waltz / Theodore Roethke --
The wayfarer / Stephen Crane --
The author to her book / Anne Bradstreet --
To a locomotive in winter / Walt Whitman --
I like to see it lap the miles / Emily Dickinson --
For my daughter / Weldon Kees --
The speaker in the poem --
White lies / Natasha Trethewey --
Luke Havergal / Edwin Arlington Robinson --
Dog haiku / Anonymous --
Theme for English B / Langston Hughes --
The farmer's bride / Charlotte Mew --
The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams --
Irony --
Oh no / Robert Creeley --
The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden --
Rite of passage / Sharon Olds --
Second fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay --
The workbox / Thomas Hardy --
For review and further study --
Deliberate / Amy Uyematsu --
To Lucasta / Richard Lovelace --
Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen --
Writing effectively --
Words --
Literal meaning : what a poem says first --
This is just to say / William Carlos Williams --
Diction --
Cargoes / John Masefield --
Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you / John Donne --
The value of a dictionary --
Aftermath / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
That will to divest / Kay Ryan --
Friend, on this scaffold Thomas More lies dead / J.V. Cunningham --
Bread / Samuel Menashe --
Grass / Carl Sandburg --
Word choice and word order --
Upon Julia's clothes / Robert Herrick --
The ruined maid / Thomas Hardy --
Lonely hearts / Wendy Cope --
For review and further study --
anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings --
Carnation milk / Anonymous --
English con salsa / Gina Valdés --
My heart leaps up when I behold / William Wor