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
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