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Analyzing Incongruities

BIG IDEA Structure 1148
Workshop Focus: Irony and Paradox

GUIDED READING Anne Sexton, Cinderella Poem 1152

PRACTICE TEXT Elaine Magarrell, The Joy of Cooking Poem 1155
BIG IDEA Figurative Language: Word Choice, Imagery,
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Workshop Focus: Ambiguity

GUIDED READING W. H. Auden, The Unknown Citizen Poem 1160

PRACTICE TEXT Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar Poem 1161
BIG IDEA Figurative Language: Comparisons 1163
Workshop Focus: Conceit and Allusion
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GUIDED READING Edward Taylor, Upon a Spider Catching

a Fly Poem 1166

PRACTICE TEXT Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Haunted Oak Poem 1168
IDEAS IN LITERATURE 1172
Alienation and Fragmentation 1172

T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Poem 1174
Chen Chen, I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party Poem 1179

Neil Gaiman, How to Talk to Girls at Parties Short Story 1183
Identity and Identities 1193
Teri Foltz, Manhunt One-Act Play 1195

Janine Solursh, Forgotten Portraits Poem 1200

Teresa Acosta, My Mother Pieced Quilts Poem 1202

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