Fiction -- Reading a story -- Point of view -- Character -- Setting -- Tone and style -- Theme -- Symbol -- Evaluating a story -- Reading long stories & novels -- Three fiction writers in depth -- Stories for further reading -- Criticism -- Poetry -- Reading a poem -- Listening to a voice -- Words -- Saying and suggesting -- Imagery -- Figures of speech -- Song -- Sound -- Rhythm -- Closed form, open form -- Poems for the eye -- Symbol -- Myth -- Alternatives -- Evaluating a poem -- What is poetry? -- Poems for further reading -- Lives of the poets -- Criticism -- Drama -- Reading a play -- The theater of Sophocles -- The theater of Shakespeare -- The modern theater -- Evaluating a play -- Plays for further reading -- Criticism -- Writing -- Writing about literature -- Writing about a story -- Writing a story -- Writing about a poem -- Writing a poem -- Writing about a play -- Writing a play.