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Tim O’Brien
Bobbie Ann Mason
E. L. Doctorow
Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy? memoir . . . . . . . . . 5 Literary Lens: Similes Author’sStyle:Repetition......................... 5
Detroit Skyline, 1949 short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Literary Lens: Syntax Author’sStyle:Dialect........................... 6
The Writer in the Family short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Literary Lens: Theme Author’sStyle:Conflict........................... 6
Responding to Unit Five. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 WRITING EXTENSION: Literary Analysis
UNIT SIX Contemporary Voices 1990sand2000s....................................... 6
Joyce
ix
Alice Walker The Flowers short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 580 Literary Lens: Mood
Author’sStyle:Imagery........................... 583
84 95
Raymond Carver Everything Stuck to Him short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 596 Literary Lens: Frame Narrator
Author’sStyle:Flashback.......................... 603
04 23
LouiseErdrich AmericanHorseshortstory ........................ 624 Literary Lens: Imagery
Author’sStyle:Symbolism......................... 637
38 53
Li-YoungLee TheCleavingpoem ............................. 654 Literary Lens: Sound Devices
Author’sStyle:Voice............................ 665
66
70
Joy Harjo from She Had Some Horses poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674 Literary Lens: Motif
Author’sStyle:Repetition......................... 679
Carol Oates Ladies and Gentlemen: short story. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Literary Lens: Satire
Author’sStyle:Juxtaposition....................... 6
80 89
Philip Levine What Work Is poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 690 Literary Lens: Setting
Author’sStyle:Second-PersonPointofView. . . . . . . . . . . . . 693