Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: infer the meaning of words using context clues such as connotation, denotation, tone, and mood; analyze different types of poetry including blank verse, free verse, narrative poems, and lyric poetry; interpret the meaning in different types of prose such as novels, short stories, and folktales; distinguish between different types of dramatic writing, including tragedy, comedy, farce, melodrama, and mixed forms; define and summarize different literary terms such as metaphor, synecdoche, metonymy, clichés, equivocations, allusion, themes, and motif; compare and contrast different types of points of view, including limited, objective, and omniscient; and write and proofread literary analysis essays.