X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia
| Fiction writers listed by College Board | Chinua Achebe, "Dead Men's Path" 182 Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings" 309 James Baldwin, "Sonny's Blues" 43 Raymond Carver, "Cathedral" 99 John Cheever, "The Five-Forty-Eight" 316 Kate Chopin, "The Storm": 116; "The Story of an Hour" 326 Sandra Cisneros, "The House on Mango Street" 328 William Faulkner, "A Rose for Emily" 28; "Barn Burning" 151 Gabriel García Márquez, "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" 329 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Young Goodman Brown" 341 Ernest Hemingway, "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" 147 Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat" 351 James Joyce, "Araby" 359 D. H. Lawrence, "The Rocking-Horse Winner" 367 Katherine Mansfield, "Miss Brill" 84 Flannery O'Connor, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" 238; "Revelation" 248 Katherine Anne Porter, "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall" 77 John Updike, "A & P" 14 Alice Walker, "Everyday Use" 64 Eudora Welty, "A Worn Path" 412 |
| Poets listed by College Board | W. H. Auden: 453, 550, 756, 758 Elizabeth Bishop: 504, 607, 696, 759 William Blake: 457, 491, 528, 761 Anne Bradstreet: 440 Gwendolyn Brooks: 493, 579, 762 Robert Browning: 432, 763 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 766 Emily Dickinson: 442, 506, 527, 629, 687, 706 (3), 707 (2), 708 (3), 709 (2), 710 (2), 711, 712 John Donne: 470, 596, 770, 771 Rita Dove: 513 T. S. Eliot: 503, 572, 628, 737 Robert Frost: 431, 495, 534, 536, 600, 633, 640, 773, 774, 775, 1390, 1438, 1460 Seamus Heaney: 780 George Herbert: 620, 632, 781 Gerard Manley Hopkins: 507, 568, 782, 783 Langston Hughes: 604, 718, 719 (2), 720 (2), 721 (2), 722, 723 (2), 724 (2) Ben Jonson: 541, 580 John Keats: 511, 593, 644, 787 Philip Larkin: 789 Robert Lowell: 791 Andrew Marvell: 792 John Milton: 794 Marianne Moore: 469, 795 Sylvia Plath: 528, 655, 801 Edgar Allan Poe: 699 Alexander Pope: 559, 604, 803 Adrienne Rich: 428, 666, 806 Anne Sexton: 450, 648 William Shakespeare: 524, 543, 571, 598, 809, 810, 811 Percy Bysshe Shelley: 694 Cathy Song: 812 Alfred, Lord Tennyson: 496, 524, 527, 564, 579, 815 Derek Walcott: 820 Walt Whitman: 441, 512, 561, 587, 616, 822, 823 Richard Wilbur: 496, 823 William Carlos Williams: 451, 468, 512, 587, 635, 824 William Wordsworth: 449, 562, 641, 825 William Butler Yeats: 425, 561, 646, 692, 828, 829 |
| Dramatists listed by College Board | Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House 1054 Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman 1211 William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice 938 Sophocles, Oedipus the King 887 Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie 1284 August Wilson, Fences 1333 |
| Exposure to multicultural authors writing in English | Chinua Achebe, "Dead Men's Path" 182 Francisco X. Alarcón, "The X in My Name" 661 Margaret Atwood, "Happy Endings" 309; "You Fit into Me" 532; "Siren Song" 755 James Baldwin: "Sonny's Blues" 43 Gwendolyn Brooks: "Southeast corner" 493; "We real cool" 579; "The Sermon" 762 Sandra Cisneros, "The House on Mango Street" 328 Lucille Clifton, "Homage to My Hips" 765 Countee Cullen, "For A Lady I Know" 439 Rita Dove, "Silos" 513; "The Darker Face of the Earth" 1134 Marisa de los Santos, "Perfect Dress" 769 Louise Erdrich, "Indian Boarding School: The Runaways" 772 Rhina Espaillat," "Bilingual/Bilingüe" 658 Dagoberto Gilb, "Look on the Bright Side" 333 Ha Jin, "Saboteur" 169 Langston Hughes (see Critical Casebook: 718–734) Zora Neale Hurston, "Sweat" 351 Suji Kwock Kim, "Monologue for an Onion" 448 Jamaica Kincaid, "Girl" 365 Ethridge Knight, "Making Jazz Swing" 510 Yusef Komunyakaa, "Facing It" 663 Shirley Geok-lin Lim, "Learning to Love America" 664 Suiko Matsushita, "Rain shower from mountain" 510 Claude McKay, "America" 659 Arikida Moritake, "The falling flower" 508 N. Scott Momday, "Simile" 528 Alice Munro, "How I Met my Husband" 185 Marilyn Nelson, "A Strange Beautiful Woman" 796 Yone Noguchi, a selection of hokku 798 Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est" 459; "War Poetry" 460; "Anthem for Doomed Youth" 799 Dudley Randall, "Ballad of Birmingham" 548; "A Different Image" 805 Run DMC, "Peter Piper" 552 Jean Toomer, "Reapers" 507 Benjamin Alire Sáenz, "To the Desert" 443 Carole Satyamurti, "I Shall Paint My Nails Red" 623 Milcha Sanchez-Scott, "The Cuban Swimmer" 1114 Leslie Marmon Silko, "The Man to Send Rain Clouds" 405 Cathy Song, "Stamp Collecting" 812 Amy Tan, "A Pair of Tickets" 127 Amy Uyematsu, "Deliberate" 662 Gina Valdés, "English con Salsa" 483 Hakuro Wada, "even the croaking of frogs" 510 Derek Walcott, "The Virgins" 820 Alice Walker, "Everyday Use" 64 August Wilson, "Fences" 1333 Bernice Zamora, "Penitents" 829 |
| Exposure to Works in Translation | Matsuo Basho, "Heat-Lightening Streak" 509; "In the Old Stone Pool" 509 Jorge Luis Borges, "The Gospel According to Mark" 312 Gabriel García Márquez, "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" 329 Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House 1054 Kobayashi Issa, "Cricket" 509; "only one guy" 509 Octavio Paz, "My Life with the Wave" 401 Sophocles, Oedipus the King 887 Poetry in Spanish: 670–684 Sor Juana, Pablo Neruda, Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Frida Kahlo, Cesar Vallejo |
| Exposure to the Historical Literary Tradition | Aesop, "The North Wind and the Sun" 5 Matsuo Basho, "Heat-lightning streak" 509; "In the old stone pool" 509 Bidpai, "The Camel and His Friends" 6 Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, "Godfather Death" 9 Shakespeare, Othello 934; Sonnets 524, 543, 571, 598, 809–811 Sophocles, Oedipus the King 886 |
| Interpretation of Fiction | Plot 11 Point of View 23 Character 74 Setting 113 Tone and Style 144 Theme 180 Symbol 206 Glossary of Literary Terms |
| Interpretation of Poetry | Paraphrase 424, 437 Voice 438 Diction 467 Denotation and Connotation 489 Imagery 501 Figures of Speech 523 Song 540 Sound 558 Rhythm 575 Form and Artifice 592 Free Verse 611 Symbol 627 Myth 639 Personal Identity 654 Glossary of Literary Terms |
| Interpretation of Drama | Conflict 835 Comedy 864 Tragedy 856 Dramatic Realism 1052 Glossary of Literary Terms |
| Evaluation | Chapter 1: Reading a Story 3 Chapter 11: Reading a Poem 423 Chapter 26: Recognizing Excellence 685 Chapter 31: Reading a Play 835 |
| Writing Skills | Chapter 37: Writing about Literature 1389 Chapter 38: Writing About a Story 1412 Chapter 39: Writing About a Poem 1437 Chapter 40: Writing About a Play 1462 Chapter 41: Writing a Research Paper 1471 Chapter 42: Writing an Essay Exam 1502 Chapter 43: Critical Approaches to Literature 1507 |