John Todd

real genius is being willing to overcome failures to be successfull.

Katherine Mansfield

Laura's family is throwing this party. she is in charge of the people setting up the marquee, is soon distracted by a beautiful hat. a man dies and laura thinks the party should be canceled, but her mother just makes her send a basket of leftover food.

Frances Gray Patton

Miss dove is a strict teacher, she hasn't changed her teaching style. Thomas Baker's younger brother is in her class and sends him a letter telling him to appreciate his teacher and give her a kiss.

Charles Dickens

This school teacher bases everything on facts & does not believe in anything using imagination.

is the method of presenting the reader wiht the materials of the story.

Perspective

Robert Browning

Joris & Derck are trying to get this good news from place to place but after tragedy occurs only the horse gives the good news.

Alfred Noyes

the h-man loves bess & so does tim. tim takes her hostage one day and ties her up with bombs. the prior night, the h-man told bess that he'd come to her by moonlight, so to warn him she set off one of her bombs and killed herself. sad sad sad

Edna St. Vincent Millay

a mother and son are very poor. one night while her son is sleeping, this mother threads clothes with her harp and gets so weary that she dies that night. the son wakes up and finds his mother dead alongside a pile of nice clothes.

The Deacon's Masterpiece

(one hoss shay)

oliver wendall holmes

a deacon wants to make a one hoss shay that will last a long time, and he does. one day an earthquake comes after 100 years and it is destroyed.

EDGAR ALLAN POE!

a servant wants to take his master's evil eye. and one day he kills him and chops him up and hides the pieces underneath the floor boards. the fuzz shows and his guilt turns him in.

The Raven

EDGAR ALLAN POE!

this raven and a widower are grieving Lenore. the raven keeps coming up the chamber door and just saying "evermore"

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

a man needs a mystery solved so he contacts sherlock holmes because he has been out of work.

Dorothy L. Sayers

this barber has been out of work for a while now, when a criminal walks in to dye his hair so he doesn't fit the descriptions so well. mr. budd dyes his hair bright green so the cops will see him.

William Rose Benet

this couple is skating on this lake and something creepy takes them.

Walter de la Mare

a traveler knocks on this house's door and hears nothing at first. then when he hears footsteps he gets scared and goes a way.

Percival Christian Wren

this guy is sick so he goes to sleep, and unconsciously begins choking himself and battling with his own hand

bah.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

a little boy and his father are traveling home when the little boy hears a voice from the erl king. he tells his father three times and he just passes it by and by. then when he hears the voice too he looks at his son, and he's dead.

Carl Stephenson

he underestimates ants and is proven wrong.

Smells

Christopher Morley

he talks about all of his favorite smells in great imagery.

Robert Browning

a meeting at night in the darkness of the beach.

Platero & I

Juan Ramon Jimenez

a touching story of a poet and his donkey

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

life is being compared to this tree.

a lonely pine is standing

heinrich hesse

many uses of personification, and comparison to a winter tree and a summer tree

it sifts from leaden sieves

emily dickinson

the it is a tree. lots of personification

the deserted house

alfred, lord tennyson

talking about a dead body

the story teller

Mark van doren

shows the beauty of imagination while telling a good story.

robert frost

traveling a road that no one takes is far better than taking the road that everyone does...

herman hesse

every hard thing is done alone.

william butler yeats

a girl is speaking to her own heart when she meets her ugly betrothed.

Thomas a Kempis

he that follows me shall not walk in darkness

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

weather changes but god never does.

the practice of the presence of God

Brother Lawrence

a true christian's reaction to troubles and tempations that come from men should be one in peace and prayer

Three Words of Strength

Friedrich von Schiller

hope, faith, and love.

nathaniel hawthorne

a boy wants to know what the great stone face resembles. no one will take him except this one guy, and he realizes that his face is the great stone faces' face.

deserve it!

author unknown

don't ever give up. if we are not recognized by others, our consolation is knowing that our prize is greater somewhere else.

henry van dyke

work is a blessing. not a doom.

john galsworthy

the gessler brothers made really good boots. then when the guy came back he was dead.

george herbert

he wants to be taught by god to do his work in the best way possible.

w. somerset maugham

a verger gets laid off because of his illiteracy and then he becomes a very rich man when he becomes a tobacconist. hmmm

my father's hands... :(

calvin r. worthington

a father was illiterate, and he died of a heart attack because he couldn't read the bottle of pills that said twist cap to open

pleasures of knowledge

sydney smith

truth is unchangeable, indestructibel, and everlasting. a life of knowlege is not often a life of crime.

john oxenham

there are two roads...nothing in the middle.

hinds' feet on high places.

hannah hurnard

much afraid wants to plant the seed of love in her heart, and must overcome many obstacles such as her retarded face, craven fear, and herself. chief shepherd helps her.

robert browning

this town is infested with rats, so the mayor hires this piper so that he can lure and sing the rats out of the town. when he comes back for his payment, the mayor refuses, so the piper lures the children away and the parents never see them again.

john updike

the many names the winter ocean is given

gerard manley hopkins

edgar allan poe

different bells in different places:

sleigh bells, wedding bells, funeral bells, the different sounds. silver bells, brazen bells, and golden bells.

Sir Walter Scott

lochinvar is the best knight in town. his love is being married to someone else and he crashes the wedding and whispers in his ear to go away with him and she does.

robert herrick

a man dies unknown and bids farewell in his grave

lord byron

the assyrian king tries to capture the jews but he is unsuccesful since the angel of death comes and defeats 185,000 of his troops.

leo tolstoy

simon finds michael when he goes out. and clothes him and feeds him and all that good stuff

richard wilbur

a boy is sad because he thinks the snowman outside is cold and alone.

bah

henry wadsworth longfellow

somedays its going to be dark and dreary... and we just have to live with it.

it can't rain everyday though <3

christina rosetti

she wants her family to remember her when she's dead, but not grieve her

s.t. semyonov

gerasim and yegor

sympathy

paul laurence dunbar

he compares sympathy and sadness to a caged bird.

the frill

pearl s. buck

a chinese man has to pay for two families now since his nephew died. he works for this lady who pays him very little, but still he does his best work.

victor hugo

when the guy got there the other guy gave him a drink. when the guy tried to kill him, the other guy still offered him a drink.

bah

the greatest thing in the world

henry drummond

love.