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Question 1. In this course, you learned about a variety of literary characteristics including connotation, denotation, tone and mood. Choose one or more poems from your course reading list and explain how at least one of these characteristics is employed and how it contributes to the overall message of the poem. Use examples from the poems you've chosen to support your claims.

About the Assignment

Literature is an essential part of our culture and how we express ourselves. In this course, you learned how to understand and analyze different types of literature, from poetry to novellas. For this assignment, you will choose two of the three prompts below and write an 800-1200-word essay in response to each one. Include quotes and textual evidence from the works you've chosen cited in MLA format. Please cite any Study.com lessons you use as resources (including lesson title and instructor's name). Your essay must be followed by an MLA style References page with at least 2 sources. Do not include an abstract. Including a cover page is optional.

Sources

As evidence for your analyses, please provide quotations from the course and any outside research. Cite all sources and quotations using MLA format. Please include any Study.com lessons you used as sources (including the lesson title and instructor's name).

If you're unsure about how to use MLA format to cite your sources, please see the following lesson:

• What is MLA Format?

• Select two of the following Shakespearean sonnets to read:

  • Sonnet 18

  • Sonnet 60

  • Sonnet 94

  • Sonnet 116

  • Sonnet 130

• Read all of the following poems:

  • 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' by John Keats

  • 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe

  • 'My Last Duchess' by Robert Browning

  • 'Song of Myself' by Walt Whitman

  • 'Funeral Blues' by W.H. Auden

  • 'Birches' by Robert Frost

• Choose one of the following novellas:

  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell

  • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

• Select two of the following short stories to read:

  • 'Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin

  • 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' by Flannery O'Connor

  • 'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson

  • 'The Life to Come' by E.M. Forster

  • 'A Clean, Well-Lighted Place' by Ernest Hemingway

• Read all of the following dramatic works:

  • Oedipus the King by Sophocles

  • Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

  • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

• Select one of the following to read:

  • The Crucible by Arthur Miller

  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde