A World of Fiction
Subtitle: Twenty Timeless Short Stories (2nd Edition)
Publisher: Pearson ESL
Published: December 2, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780131946361
Description: Table of Contents

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
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