We use the book The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature, by Michael Meyer for this class. It's a GINORMOUS book, but we only use a small fraction of it. First, it has American books AND American poetry. And then it has excerpts from a bunch of different authors. Really, it's intended for college students. So we use it for what we need and if you ever want to just geek out on literature, I'm sure we'll have it on hand for years to come, ha.
Okay.
You've already read the books for this class.
You'll be doing the first section, The Elements of Fiction. Each one of them needs to be read and understood. To do that, you'll be writing down key terms.
1. Reading Fiction, pp. 13-14. End before reading the excerpt from The Story of an Hour. No key terms.
3. Plot, pp. 69-70. Key terms: plot, in media res, flashback
4. Character, pp. 117-118; 120-122. Key terms: characterization, showing, telling, motivated, plausible, consistent, absurdist literature, antihero, dynamic, static, foil
5. Setting, pp. 162-164. Key terms: setting
6. Point of View, pp. 188-193. Key terms: point of view, narrator, omniscient narrator, editorial omniscience, neutral omniscience, limited omniscient narrator, stream-of-consciousness technique, objective point of view, first-person narrator, unreliable narrator, naive narrator
7. Symbolism, pp. 237-240. Key terms: symbol, conventional symbols, literary symbols, allegory,
8. Theme, pp. 262-265. Key terms: theme. What are the strategies for identifying a theme? Write a one-page essay on the theme of one of the books you read. If you have to reread the book to search for a theme, then do that. Use the theme-identifying strategies presented in the book if you need help!
9. Style, Tone, and Irony, pp. 283-287. Key terms: style, diction, tone, irony, verbal irony, situational irony, dramatic irony
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