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Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Literary Lens: Motif
Author’sStyle:FigurativeLanguage.................... 37
RalphWaldoEmerson fromNaturepoem............................... 54 Literary Lens: Imagery
Author’sStyle:Diction............................ 59
Walt Whitman from Song of Myself poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Literary Lens: Sound Devices
Author’sStyle:FreeVerse.......................... 77
Responding to Unit One . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Writing Extension: Film Critique
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Table of Contents
TotheReader................................................... xi On Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
UNIT ONE Finding an American Voice
1820s to 1850s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Young Goodman Brown short story . . . . .......... . . . . . . 38 Literary Lens: Symbols
Author’sStyle:Setting ............................ 53
The Masque of the Red Death short story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The Raven poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Literary Lens: Mood Author’sStyle:PlotStructure........................ 71
Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street short story. . . Literary Lens: Conflict
Author’s Style: Narrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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UNIT TWO New American Voices
1860s to 1900s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... .......
Frederick Douglass from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,
an American Slave autobiography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .......
Literary Lens: Syntax
Author’sStyle:Tone ............................
