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IDEAS IN LITERATURE 1032
Appearance and Reality 1032
Virginia Woolf, The New Dress Short Story 1034

Robert Browning, My Last Duchess Poem 1040

Octavia Butler, Bloodchild Short Story 1044

Loss and Disillusionment 1060
D. H. Lawrence, The Rocking-Horse Winner Short Story 1062

Li-Young Lee, A Hymn to Childhood Poem 1074

Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Novella 1078
COMPOSITION WORKSHOP Writing about Setting 1114
Workshop Focus: Writing Introductions
STUDENT MODEL Hannah Richards, A Cautionary Tale:
Culture as Setting in The Handmaid’s

Tale Literary Argument 1127
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PREPARING FOR THE AP EXAM 1129

Free-Response Question: Prose Fiction Analysis 1129
Focus : Writing Introductions 1129
MODELED TEXT George Eliot, from Middlemarch Excerpt 1129

PRACTICE TEXT Richard Wright, from Native Son Excerpt 1137
Multiple-Choice Questions 1141

PROSE Charles Dickens, from A Tale of Two Cities

Excerpt 1141

POETRY Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Poem 1144

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