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WGU LCC Title/Author
All Titles and All Authors with Literary Periods and terms for WGU class LCC
Author / Term | Title / Definition | Period |
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ts elliot | the hollow men | Modern |
ts elliot | the waste land | Modern |
ts elliot | love song of alfred | Modern |
james joyce | ulysses | Modern |
james joyce | araby | Modern |
susan glaspell | trifles | Modern |
faulkner | sound and fury | Modern |
william faulkner | barn burning | Modern |
ernest hemingway | farewell to arms | Modern |
ernest hemingway | snows of kilimanjaro | Modern |
neil larsen | quicksand | Modern |
willia cather | my antonia | Modern |
willia cather | paul's case | Modern |
f scott fitzgerald | great gatsby | Modern |
virginia wolf | to the lighthouse | Modern |
virginia wolf | mrs dollaway | Modern |
steinbeck | grapes of wrath | Modern |
john steinbeck | chrysanthemums | Modern |
hurston | gilded six bits | Modern |
hurston | their eyes watching god | Modern |
porter | flowering judas | Modern |
web dubois | souls of black folk | Modern |
erza pound | in a station of the metro | Modern |
william williams | red wheelbarrow | Modern |
jean toomer | reapers | Modern |
hart crane | the bridge | Modern |
langston hughes | weary blues | Modern |
hd hilda doolittle | the walls do not fall | Modern |
john winthrop | model of christian charity | Colonial |
john smith | general history of virginia | Colonial |
cotton mather | pillars of salt | Colonial |
cotton mather | wonders of invisible world | Colonial |
thomas harriot | brief and true | Colonial |
william bradford | plymouth plantation | Colonial |
samson occom | short narrative of my life | Colonial |
equiano | interesting narrative | Colonial |
anne bradstreet | upon the burning of our house | Colonial |
anne bradstreet | the tenth muse | Colonial |
phyllis wheatley | brought to america | revolutionary |
phyllis wheatley | poems on various | Revolutionary |
wiggelsworth | day of doom | Colonial |
thomas paine | common sense | Revolutionary |
jefferson | notes on virginia | Revolutionary |
jefferson | dec, of independance | Colonial |
john edwards | sinners in the hands of an angry god | Colonial |
lord byron | lara | Romantic |
lord byron | harolds pilgramage | Romantic |
lord bryon | don juan | Romantic |
lord byron | turkish tale | Romantic |
william blake | tyger | Romantic |
william blake | marriage of heaven and hell | Romantic |
wadsworth | tintern abbey | Romantic |
wadsworth | prelude | Romantic |
wadsworth | guide to the lakes | Romantic |
taylor cooleridge | ancient mariner | Romantic |
taylor cooleridge | frost at midnight | Romantic |
taylor cooleridge | religious musings | Romantic |
anne radcliffe | udolpho | Romantic |
anne radcliffe | romance of the forest | Romantic |
anne radcliffe | the italian | Romantic |
william glipin | observations on river wye | Romantic |
Matthew lewis | the monk | Romantic |
percy shelley | mont blanc | Romantic |
percy shelley | alastor | Romantic |
percy shelley | prometheus unbound | Romantic |
percy shelley | queen mab | Romantic |
jane austen | northanger abbey | Romantic |
john keats | to autum | Romantic |
frances sheridan | history of nourjahad | Romantic |
lady caroline lamb | glenarvon | Romantic |
william beckford | vatheck | Romantic |
thomas gray | journal in the lakes | Romantic |
horace walpole | castle otrano | Romantic |
thomas paine | common sense | Colonial |
jefferson | notes on virginia | Colonial |
phyllis wheatley | to university of cambridge | Colonial |
ben franklin | poor richard's almanac | Revolutionary |
ben franklin | the autobiography | Revolutionary |
washington irving | the sketch book | Revolutionary |
susannah rowson | charlotte temple | Revolutionary |
william hill brown | power of sympathy | Revolutionary |
fennimore cooper | the spy | Revolutionary |
hector st. john | letters from american farmer | Revolutionary |
william langland | piers plowman | Medieval |
chaucer | troilus | Medieval |
chaucer | legend good women | Medieval |
chaucer | parlement of fowles | Medieval |
julian of norwich | divine love | Medieval |
venerable bebe | angloram | Medieval |
monmouth | britannaie | Medieval |
boethius | consolation of philosophy | Medieval |
maria de france | ysopt fables | Medieval |
maria de france | legend of st patrick | Medieval |
sir malory | morte de arthur | Medieval |
chretien troyes | yvain, percival, lancelot | Medieval |
john grower | confessio amantis | Medieval |
john grower | appolonius | Medieval |
john grower | vox clammantis | Medieval |
caedmon | hymm | Medieval |
john jydgate | life of our lady | Medieval |
john lydgate | fall of princes | Medieval |
john lydgate | troy book | Medieval |
aeschylus | orestia | Classical |
euripides | trojan woman | Classical |
homer | illiad | Classical |
homer | odyssey | Classical |
virgil | aeneid | Classical |
aristotle | poetics | Classical |
orace | the odes | Classical |
sappho | hymm aphrodite | Classical |
sophocles | antigone | Classical |
sophocles | oedipus rex | Classical |
juvenal | satires | Classical |
ovid | metamorphisis | Classical |
plato | republic | Classical |
sexton | death notebooks | Post Modern |
keroac | dharma blues | Post Modern |
ellison | invisible man | Post Modern |
pynchon | gravity rainbow | Post Modern |
james baldwin | going to meet the man | Post Modern |
james baldwin | go tell it on the mountain | Post Modern |
anzaldua | borderlands frontera | Post Modern |
barthelme | dead father | Post Modern |
tenesee williams | streetcar named desire | Post Modern |
john updike | rabbit run | Post Modern |
john updike | witches of eastwick | Post Modern |
ginsberg | sandwiches | Post Modern |
ginsberg | howl | Post Modern |
snyder | riprap | Post Modern |
plath | ariel | Post Modern |
plath | the bell jar | Post Modern |
walker | color purple | Post Modern |
morrison | sula | Post Modern |
morrison | bluest eye | Post Modern |
flannery | good man is hard to find | Post Modern |
flannery | wise blood | Post Modern |
leslie silko | ceremony | Post Modern |
adrienne rich | diving into the wreck | Post Modern |
john ashberry | self portrait in a convex mirror | Post Modern |
raymond carver | cathedral | Post Modern |
maxine kingston | woman warrior | Post Modern |
joy harjo | woman who fell from the sky | Post Modern |
barthelme | snow white | Post Modern |
a r ammons | snow peoms | Post Modern |
annie dillard | pilgrim at tinker creek | Post Modern |
thomas paine | the american crisis | Renaissance |
Thomas Gray | Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Restoration |
Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | Restoration |
Jonathan Swift | A Modest Proposal | Restoration |
Jonathan Swift | Gulliver's Travels | Restoration |
Alexander Pope | Rape of the Lock | Restoration |
Alexander Pope | An Essay on Man | Restoration |
Samuel Johnson | The Rambler | Restoration |
Samuel Johnson | The History of Rasselas | Restoration |
Samuel Johnson | Prince of Abissinia | Restoration |
Samuel Johnson | A Dictionary of the English Language | Restoration |
William Congreve | The Way of the World | Restoration |
Anne Finch | The Apology | Restoration |
John Dryden | Absalom and Achitophel | Restoration |
John Dryden | Annus Mirabillis | Restoration |
John Dryden | All for Love | Restoration |
Earl of Rochester | The Imperfect Enjoyment | Restoration |
Christopher Smart | For I will consider my Cat | Restoration |
Oliver Goldsmith | She stoops to conquer | Restoration |
Oliver Goldsmith | The Vicar of Wakefield | Restoration |
royal tyler | the contrast | Revolutionary |
John Ruskin | Of Queen's Gardens | Realist |
George Gissing | The Odd Women | Realist |
Charlotte Bronte | Jane Eyre | Realist |
Elizabeth Eastlake | Lady Travellers | Realist |
Rudyard Kipling | The White Man's Burden | Realist |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | Minute on Indian Education | Realist |
Josephine Butler | Our Indian Fellow Subjects | Realist |
Henry Mayhew | London Labour and the London Poor | Realist |
Constance Fenimore Woolson | Miss Grief | Realist |
Kate Chopin | The Awakening | Realist |
Sarah Orne Jewett | A White Heron | Realist |
Mark Twain | Life on the Mississippi | Realist |
Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn | Realist |
Ambrose Bierce | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Realist |
Anna Leonowens | The English Governess at the Siamese Court | Realist |
Elizabeth Gaskell | Mary Barton | Realist |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Cry of the Children | Realist |
Mary Austin | The Land of Little Rain | Realist |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The Yellow Wallpaper | Realist |
Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton | Who Would Have Thought It? | Realist |
W.E.B. DuBois | Souls of Black Folk | Realist |
Charles Chesnut | The Wife of His Youth | Realist |
Booker T. Washington | Up From Slavery | Realist |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | Realist |
Charles Dickens | Great Expectations | Realist |
William Booth | In Darkest England and the Way Out | Realist |
Christina Rossetti | Goblin Market | Realist |
Thomas Kid | The Spanish Tragedy | Renaissance |
Sir Philip Sidney | Arcadia | Renaissance |
Sir Walter Ralegh | The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd | Renaissance |
William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | Renaissance |
Christopher Marlowe | The Jew of Malta | Renaissance |
Elizabeth I | The Doubt of Future Foes | Renaissance |
Edmund Spencer | The Faerie Queene | Renaissance |
Sir Thomas More | Utopia | Renaissance |
Mary Sidney Herbert | The Tragedie of Antonie | Renaissance |
Lady Mary Wroth | The Countess of Montgomery's Urania | Renaissance |
John Lyly | Euphues: The Anotomy of Wit | Renaissance |
Thomas Nashe | The Unfortunate Traveller | Renaissance |
Samuel Daniel | Delia | Renaissance |
Michael Drayton | Idea | Renaissance |
John Heywood | Of Books and Cheese | Renaissance |
Ben Johnson | To Celia | Renaissance |
Sir Philip Sidney | Astrophil and Stella | |
Sir Philip Sidney | The Defense of Poesy | Renaissance |
William Shakespeare | Othello | Renaissance |
William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Renaissance |
William Shakespeare | Let me not to the marriage of true minds | Renaissance |
Christopher Marlowe | Hero and Leander | Renaissance |
Christopher Marlowe | Doctor Faustus | Renaissance |
Christopher Marlowe | The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | Renaissance |
Christopher Marlowe | The Tragical History of doctor Faustus | Renaissance |
Elizabeth I | On Monsieur's Departure | Renaissance |
Edmund Spencer | Amoretti and Epithalamion | Renaissance |
Edmund Spencer | The Shepherds Calendar | Renaissance |
Sir Thomas More | The History of King Richard the Third | Renaissance |
Mary Sidney Herbert | A Dialogue between two shepherds | Renaissance |
Mary Sidney Herbert | The not and Piers | Renaissance |
Thomas Nashe | Summer's Last Will and Testament | Renaissance |
Satire | witty language used to convey insults or scorn | |
soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections | |
allusion | a figure of speech that makes brief reference to a well-known person | place |
allegory | A form of extended metaphor in which objects | persons |
sonnet | a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme | |
antithesis | A figure of speech characterized by strongly contrasting words | clauses |
exposition | One of the four chief types of composition (others argumentation | description |
caesura | a pause or break within a line of poetry | |
first person | told from the narrator's point of view | using "I" |
third person | narrator is outside the action and refers to characters as he or she | |
omniscient | knowing everything; having unlimited awareness or understanding | |
trochaic meter | a meter in which the majority of feet are trochees | |
eye rhyme | an imperfect rhyme-letters are the same (e.g. | 'watch' and 'match') |
slant rhyme | near rhyme in which the vowel sounds are nearly | but not exactly the same (i.e. the words "stress" and "kiss"); sometimes called half-rhyme |
exact rhyme | perfect rhyme | such as buzz and fuzz |
pentameter | a line of verse having five feet | |
tetrameter | a line consisting of four feet | |
quatrain | A stanza of four lines of poetry | |
hyperbole | Exaggeration | |
sestet | a rhythmic group of six lines of verse | |
round character | a character sufficiently complex to be able to surprise the reader without losing credibility. | |
satiric comedy | genre using derisive humor to ridicule human weakness and folly or attack political injustices and incompetence | |
Aphra Behn | Oroonoko | Restoration |