English 1P

Short Stories:

"The Most Dangerous Game" – Richard Connell (plot)

"Dog Star" – Arthur C. Clarke (setting)

"Marigolds" – Eugenia W. Collier (character)

"The Interlopers" – Saki (narrator/irony)

"The Necklace" – Guy de Maupassant (narrator/irony)

"The Cask of Amontillado" – Edgar Allan Poe (narrator)

"The Sniper" – Liam O'Flaherty (irony)

"The Scarlet Ibis" – James Hurst (symbolism)

 

Novels:

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Animal Farm – George Orwell (Russian Revolution Research Paper)

 

Mythology – Edith Hamilton

Explanations of Nature:

"Demeter", "Dionysus", "Arachne", "Pyramus and Thisbe"

Heroes and Legendary Events:

"The Adventures of Odysseus", "The Trojan War", "Perseus", "Hercules", "Theseus"

Religion:

"The 12 Olympians", "How the World and Mankind were Created"

Entertainment:

"Phaethon", "Daedalus", "Oedipus", "Orpheus and Eurydice", "Cupid and Psyche"

 

Drama:

Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare

 

Poetry:

"Dream Deferred" – Langston Hughes (simile)

"Empty House" – Stephem Spender" (metaphor)

"Moon Tiger" – Denise Levertov (metaphor)

"The Face in the Mirror" – Robert Graves (speaker)

"The Cat and the Wind" – Thom Gunn (imagery)

from "The Cloud" – Percy Bysshe Shelley (personification)

"To Satch" – Samuel Allen – (hyperbole)

"Silver" – Walter de la Mare (alliteration)

"Jazz Fantasia" – Carl Sandburg (onomatopoeia)

"Mending Wall" – Robert Frost

"Ill Tell You How the Sun Rose" – Emily Dickinson

"The Sound of the Sea" – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"400-meter Freestyle" – Maxine Kumin

"The Charge of the Light Brigade" – Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"The Seven Ages of Man" – William Shakespeare