Table of Content
Husbands, Wives, and Lovers 1 CAN-CAN: Arturo Vivante Literary Elements: Irony, Symbol Language Elements: Gerunds and Present Participles, Short Expressions Using And , Definitions 2 THE STORY OF AN HOUR: Kate Chopin Literary Elements: Epiphany, Metaphor and Simile, Personification Language Elements: Suffixes, Prepositions 3 EPICAC: Kurt Vonnegut Literary Elements: Personification, Colloquialism and Humor Language Elements: Lie/Lay , Two-Word Verbs, Idioms Containing Body Parts 4 THE LEGACY: Virginia Woolf Literary Element: Point of View Language Element: Adjectives Describing Character 5 THE KUGELMASS EPISODE: Woody Allen Literary Elements: Dialogue, Characterization: Flat Characters, Anachronism and Humor Language Elements: Verbs that Introduce Dialogue, Idioms 6 AN INTRUDER: Nadine Gordimer Literary Elements: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor Language Elements: Adjective Clauses, Adjectives in Context Parent and Child 7 POWDER: Tobias Wolf Literary Elements: Repetition and Alliteration Language Elements: Participial Phrases, Dangling Modifiers, Sentence Fragments, Alliteration, Prepositions 8 MOTHER: Grace Paley Literary Element: Flashback Language Elements: Past Tenses, Symbols 9 A SHORT DIGEST OF A LONG NOVEL: Budd Schulberg Literary Elements: Imagery: Simile and Metaphor Language Elements: Prefixes, Similes and Metaphors, Word Sets 10 THE ROCKING-HORSE WINNER: D.H. Lawrence Literary Elements: Symbol, Fable Language Elements: Proverbs, Idioms 11 THE BOARDING HOUSE: James Joyce Literary Elements: Tone: Irony and Humor, Imagery: Adjectives, Oxymorons Language Elements: Oxymorons, Adjectives, Antonyms, Idioms 12 MY OEDIPUS COMPLEX: Frank O''Connor Literary Element: Humorous Effects Language Elements: Denotation and Connotation, Idioms Loneliness and Alienation 13 THE MODEL: Bernard Malamud Literary Element: Inference Language Elements: Euphemism, Using About in Different Ways, Expressions with Two Meanings 14 DISAPPEARING: Monica Wood Literary Elements: Ellipsis, Imagery Language Elements: Vocabulary, Definitions 15 MISS BRILL: Katherine Mansfield Literary Elements: Synecdoche, Simile Language Elements: Verbs of Movement, Adjectives 16 TEENAGE WASTELAND: Anne Tyler Literary Elements: Point of View: Third-Person Narration, Inference Language Elements: Conditionals, Idioms Social Change and Injustice 17 LIKE A WINDING SHEET: Ann Petry Literary Elements: Colloquialism and Dialect, Imagery Language Elements: Adverbial Clauses, Synonyms 18 THE LILY-WHITE BOYS: William Maxwell Literary Elements: Allusion and Connotation, Setting and Atmosphere Language Elements: Appositives, Placement of the Subject, Irregular Verbs 19 THE CATBIRD SEAT: James Thurber Literary Elements: Understatement and Humor Language Elements: Noun Clauses, Two-Word Verbs, Expressions Using Color, Legal Expressions 20 EVERYDAY USE: Alice Walker Literary Elements: Characterization: Round Character, Point of View: First-Person Narrative Language Elements: Prepositional Phrases, Verbs of Movement, Two-Word Verbs, Used To Ecplanation of Literary Terms
