1 Setting The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe The Secret Life of Walter Mitty James Thurber 2 Theme A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O’Connor The End of the Party Graham Greene 3 Character Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Story of an Hour Kate Chopin 4 Plot A Rose for Emily William Faulkner The Man Who Was Almost a Man Richard Wright 5 Conflict To Build a Fire Jack London Quicksand Nella Larsen 6 Point of View The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner The Legacy Virginia Woolf 7 Irony A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Earnest Hemingway Mrs. Packletide’s Tiger Saki 8 Symbolism Everyday Use: For Your Grandmama Alice Walker Araby James Joyce 9 Allegory Young Goodman Brown Nathaniel Hawthorne The Gift of the Magi O Henry
