Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition

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 / William Faulkner -- Tell-tale Heart / 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 / William Faulkner -- Irony -- The necklace / Guy de Maupassant -- The story of an hour / 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 / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The gift of the magi / O. Henry -- Sweat / Zora Neale Hurston -- Saboteur / Ha Jin -- Araby / 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 Wordsworth -- Mutability / William Wordsworth -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Writing effectively -- Saying and suggesting -- Denotation and connotation -- London / William Blake -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock / Wallace Stevens -- Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- The minefield / Diane Thiel -- Bilingual/bilingüe / Rhina P. Espaillat -- Tears, idle tears / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Love calls us to the thin

Backpack Literature -- Fifth Edition

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