Passages for rhetorical analysis

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passages for rhetorical analysis

Audio Resources (poems & prose passages on RealAudio)

Impressions of New York City (prose passages)

Opening Lines: (Foggy) Passages for Analysis

School House Books, Inc. Collection of Essays Online

Martin Amis, from Money (1985)*
Susan B. Anthony, from "On Women's Right to Suffrage" (1873)
Jane Austen, from Pride and Prejudice
Paul Auster, from City of Glass (1985)*

Francis Bacon, "Of Studies" (1625); from "The Proficience and Advancement of Learning" (1605)
Donald Barthelme, from "Will You Tell Me?" (1964) *
Arnold Bennett, from The Old Wives' Tale (1908) *
Elizabeth Bishop, selected poems: "At the Fishhouses"; "Filling Station"; "In the Waiting Room"; "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"; "The Fish"; "The Man Moth"; "Visits to Saint Elizabeths." (1979)
Alice Borchardt, Chapter One of The Silver Wolf (1998)
John Bunyan, from The Pilgrim's Progress (1678)

Thomas Carlyle, from The French Revolution (1837) *
Raymond Chandler, from The Big Sleep (1939)
Chesterton, G. K., "A Piece of Chalk"
Gregory Corso, "Marriage" (1960)
E. E. Cummings, selected poems: "anyone lived in a pretty how town"; "i sing of Olaf glad and big"; "pity this busy monster, manunkind"; "somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond"; "why must itself up every of a park."

Rebecca Harding Davis, from Life in the Iron Mills * (1860)
Charles Dickens, "The Chimes" (1845);* from Bleak House (1853); from Bleak House *
Joan Didion, from "The White Album"
Annie Dillard, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek .
John Donne, "The Canonization" (1633); "The Ecstasy" (1633); "The Sun Rising" (1633); "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (1633)

T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"; "Rhapsody on a Windy Night"
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience"; "Gifts"; "Language"; "Self-Reliance"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, from Tender Is the Night (1934)*
Benjamin Franklin, "The Whistle" 1779
Kinky Friedman, from Armadillos and Old Lace (1994); Musical Chairs (1991)

Allen Ginsberg, Howl Parts I and II
Natalia Ginzburg, from "My Vocation"

William Hazlitt, from "On Familiar Style" (1821)
Ernest Hemingway, from "In Another Country" (1927)*
Langston Hughes, selected poems: "Let America Be America Again"; "Night Funeral in Harlem"; "Po' Boy Blues."
Zora Neale Hurston, "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928)

Kazuo Ishiguro, from The Remains of the Day (1989)*

Randall Jarrell, selected poems: "Eighth Air Force"; "Next Day"; "The Woman at the Washington Zoo."
James Joyce, "Araby" (1914)

Stephen King, from "The Mist" (1985) (with student rewrites)
Rudyard Kipling, "The Female of the Species" (1892)
Milan Kundera, from Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1980)*

Lawrence, D. H., fromWomen in Love (1921)*
Frederick Lieb, obituary of Babe Ruth (1948)
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (1863)
David Lodge, from How Far Can You Go? (1982)*; from Nice Work (1989)*
Jack London, "The Story of an Eyewitness: The San Francisco Earthquake" (1906)

Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" (1652)
H. L. Mencken, excerpts from books and essays (1913-1940) *; "The Declaration of Independence in American";
"On Being an Anerican"; "The Hills of Zion" (1925)
W. S. Merwin, selected poems: "For the Anniversary of My Death"; "The Creation of the Moon"; "My Friends";
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Renascence"; and other poems
John Milton, "Areopagitica" (1644)
Marianne Moore, "Marriage" (1923)

Vladimir Nabokov, from Lolita (1958)*

George Orwell, "A Hanging"; "A Nice Cup of Tea" (1946); from Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)*; "Shooting an Elephant"; "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad"; "Why I Write" (1947).

Plato, Apology of Socrates (excerpts: audio and text)**
Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado"; "The Fall of the House of Usher"; "The Pit and the Pendulum"; "The Raven"; "Tell-Tale Heart"

Anne Rice, Chapter One of Vittorio the Vampire (1998)
Edwin Arlington Robinson, "Mr. Flood's Party" (1920)
Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
Salman Rushdie. from Midnight's Children (1981)

Scott Russell Sanders, from "Under the Influence" (1989)
Mike Scott, "The Whole of the Moon" (1989)
Robert Service, "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go
Shakespeare's Sonnets (read by Sir John Gielgud); Sonnets (text)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Chapter 16)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark"
Jean Shepherd, from "The Endless Streetcar Ride . . ." (1966)
Shel Silverstein, "Where the Sidewalk Ends" *
John Steinbeck, from "The Chrysanthemums" *
Bram Stoker, "The Judge's House"
Jonathan Swift, "A Modest Proposal" (1729)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" (1842); "Ulysses" (1842)
Ernest Lawrence Thayer, "Casey at the Bat" (1888)
Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" *; "Fern Hill" and other poems
Henry David Thoreau, from Walden (1854)
James Thurber,"The Bear Who Let It Alone"; "The Catbird Seat"* (1941); "The Unicorn in the Garden"
Mark Twain, "Baker's Blue-Jay Yarn"; "Concerning the American Language"; "Concerning Tobacco"; "Independence Day"; "The Killing of Julius Caesar 'Localized'"; "My First Lie and How I Got Out of It"; "Niagra"; "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" ; "Political Economy"; "A Presidential Candidate"; suppressed chapter from Life on the Mississippi; "Two Ways of Seeing River";"Votes for Women."

Tom Waits, "Nighthawk Postcards" *; "Emotional Weather Report"; "The Ghosts of Saturday Night"; "San Diego Serenade."
Alice Walker, from "In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens"
Fay Weldon, from Female Friends (1974)*
E.B. White, "Death of a Pig"*; "The Door"; from "Once More to the Lake"; "The Ring of Time"* (1954); from opening of "Here Is New York" and from conclusion to "Here Is New York" and further excerpts from "Here Is New York" (1949)
Walt Whitman, "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" (1856); "I Sing the Body Electric"
Virginia Woolf, "Kew Gardens"; "The Mark on the Wall"; from Mrs. Dalloway (1925)*; "Street Haunting: A London Adventure"
William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"; "Resolution and Independence"

* Short passages for discussion in class.

** Sites providing useful guides to Plato's The Apology of Socrates include those of Dr. Robert Hood and Dr. Robert Berman.

History and Development of Prose Style: A Reader

English 5730 is taught by Dr. Richard Nordquist
Office of Liberal Studies (Solms 211)
Armstrong Atlantic State University
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28 February 2007