Literature

Literature English Skills Rhetorical Analysis

See also Literary devices

Literature definition

• by definition, anything in writing
• more particularly, literature refers to writing of artistic merit or value

American literature

• "Moby Dick” by Melville

• "Huck Finn” by Twain

• Great Gatsby” by Fitzgerald

American high school literature

General works taught in American high schools:

• Hamlet / Julius Caesar

• Animal Farm or 1984
• Gatsby

• Lord of the Flies

• F451

• Things Fall Apart
• To Kill a Mockingbird

• A Raisin in the Sun

• The Crucible

• Beloved
• House on Mango Street

Modern literature

Magical Realism

• see The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World by Gabriel Garcia Marquez analysis