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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |