Choose one of the “Creative Nonfiction” stories assigned in the week eight lesson.
Determine the main theme of that essay.
Go back through the assigned readings to find 1 short story, poem, or play that you think deals with a similar theme. Be creative when figuring out shared themes—there may be some interesting ones that are not immediately obvious because of the difference in forms.
Discuss the rhetorical techniques—voicing, tone, imagery, symbolism, rhetorical appeals, etc.—that the authors of the two works use. Do they use similar rhetorical techniques?
How do the rhetorical techniques used and the form (essay, short fiction, or poetry) seem to affect the way the theme is addressed?
Here’s some creative nonfiction stories you can choose from
The youth in Asia- Scroll down to act 1
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/639/transcript
The day the scales fell from her eyes- scroll down to act one
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/589/transcript
Me thinks the lady doth protest to much- scroll down to act 3
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/378/transcript
It takes a villa- scroll down to act 3
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/594/transcript
Optimums way past her prime listen to podcast act 1
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/572/transformers/act-one-0
Airport- scroll down to act 2
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/266/transcript
You must choose one of these short stories, plays or poems to compare to one of the creative nonfiction stories above
Short stories
The most dangerous game by Richard Connell
Tony’s wife by Alice Dunbar-Nelson
The story of an hour by Kate Chopin
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Winter dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The purloined letter by Edgar Allen Poe
Poems
Driving to town to mail a letter by Robert Bly
To my dear and loving husband by Anne Bradstreet
Mending wall by Robert Frost
The road not taken by Robert Frost
Harlem by Langston Hughes
My papas waltz by Theodore Roethke
Plays
Taming of the shrew
Macbeth
Richard lll
The Importance of Being Earnest
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