1. MLA format – Go to Purdue Owl for more information
2. 5 page typed
3. plus the Works Cited page
4. 12 Font
5. Times New Roman
6. Double Space
7. One inch margins all around
Topics:
#2. Choose a topic covered/mentioned in one of the short stories, poems, or plays in the syllabus. E.g. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” Poe brings to light the difficulties faced by people with mental illness. Research the difficulties of living with a mental illness and include the lesson or moral learned from reading that particular story. Make sure to use quotes and to paraphrase the original text.
You can come up with your own topic or choose one of the suggested topics below.
Suggested topics for option #2:
Education
You might have to narrow it quite a bit. You must also use one of the texts that appear in the syllabus to include in your research. Topic and Thesis.
use one of the texts that appear in the syllabus:
Fiction “Reading a Story” – Lit. Terms
Plot
“A & P” by Updike
Terms for Review
Point of view
Terms for Review
“The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Alan Poe
Character
“Everyday Use” by Walker
Terms for Review
Setting
Terms for Review
Tone and Style
Terms for Review
“The story of an Hour” by Kate Chapin
Theme
Terms for Review
Luke “The Parable of the Prodigal Son
Symbol
Terms for Review
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Gilman
“A Good Man is Hard to…” by O’Connor
Poetry –
Reading Lyric –
“Those Winter Sundays” by Yeats
Narrative –
“Out, Out” by Frost
Dramatic –
“My Last Duchess” by Browning
Terms for Review
Voice –
“My Papa’s Waltz” by Roethke
Imaging –
“Theme for English B” Hughes
“The Red Wheelbarrow” by Williams
Terms for Review
Words –
Saying and Suggesting
“Fire and Ice” by Frost
“Bilingual/Bilingue” by Espaillat
Terms for Review
Imagery –
Term for Review
Figurative and Sonnets –
“Shall I Compare…” by Shakespeare
Terms for Review
Sound and Rime –
Terms for Review
Rhythm –
“We Real Cool” by Brooks
“When I was one and twenty” by Housman
Terms for Review
Form –
“Acquainted with the Night” by Frost
“We Wear the Mask” by Paul Dunbar
Terms for Review
“The Road Not Taken” by Frost
Myth and Narrative
Terms for Review
What is Poetry –
“Death be not Proud by John Donne
“The Flea” By John Donne
Poetry
Introduction to Drama –
Terms for Review
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Fences by August Wilson