English Language and Literature

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

​The Iliad (Classical Antiquity)

​The Divine Comedy (Dante, 1320)

​Medieval Literature

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Early Modern Literature 

​Hamlet (circa 1600)

​Othello (1603)

​Metaphysical Poets

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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)

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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)

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Literary Devices and Figures in Action

Figures

Apostrophe and Personification

 Allusion

 Synecdoche, not metonymy

 Diction

Imagery and Synesthesia

 Oxymoron and Antithesis

 Malapropism

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Schemes

 Alliteration and End rhyme

Consonance, Assonance, Sibilance

 Unusual Syntax

 Juxtaposition

 Parallelism

 Anaphora and refrain

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Educational Links

PBS Learning Media: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
TED ED: https://ed.ted.com/
Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Lit2Go (free e-texts and audio clips of the canonical writings): https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
YouTube Crash Courses: ​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q
CNN 10: https://www.cnn.com/cnn10
NPR (National Public Radio) Up First: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first