English and World Literature in Secondary and Higher Education

Homer to Medieval Lit. (World Lit.; OLD English and MIDdle English)

​The Iliad (Classical Antiquity)

​The Divine Comedy (Dante, 1320)

​Medieval Literature (Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales)

Early Modern Literature 

​Hamlet (circa 1600)

​Othello (1603)

​Metaphysical Poets

Romanticism and Victorianism

​Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

​Victorian Literature (1837-1901)

​Heart of Darkness (1899)

​The Awakening (1899)

​The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

​Romantic Poets

​Jane Eyre (1847)

Modernism and the Twentieth Century Literature 

​Pygmalion (1913)

​The Great Gatsby (1925)

​As I Lay Dying (1930)

​The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

​Brave New World (1931)

​1984 (1949)

​Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

​Lord of the Flies (1954)

​To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

​Maus (1980-1991)

​Kafka (1883-1924)

​Things Fall Apart (1958)

Chang-Rae Lee (1965-)

​Circe (2019)

 The Joy Luck Club (1989)

​ Color Me In (2019)

Grendel (1971)

Invisible Man (1952)

Literary Devices and Figures in Action

Figures

Apostrophe and Personification

 Allusion

 Synecdoche, not metonymy

 Diction

Imagery and Synesthesia

 Oxymoron and Antithesis

 Malapropism

Paradox

Syntax