INDEX
“10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life” (Samuel), 808
“2000 lbs.” (Turner), 600–
A
Achebe, Chinua, “Civil Peace,” 885–
Acton, Mary, 647
Adams, Ansel, 550–
Adams, Eddie, “Saigon Execution,” 598
ad hominem fallacy, 76–
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, “Cell One,” 435–
“Adventures in Chinese Parenting” (Yang), 326
“Against School” (Gatto), 207–
Agosín, Marjorie, “English,” 780–
Aldiss, Brian, “Flight 063,” 322–
Alexie, Sherman, “Facebook Sonnet,” 811–
Allenby, Brad, “Is Human Enhancement Cheating?,” 502–
allusion, 32, 33, 47, 80–
Alone Together (Turkle), 801–
Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators (Cooper), 813–
“Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed” (Kluger), 324–
“America” (McKay), 44
American Childhood, An (Dillard), 466–
American Values Survey (Pew Research Center), 514
analogy, argument by, 525–
analysis, defined, 11–
Anderson, Laurie Halse, Speak, 26–
Andreessen, Marc, 898–
And the Pursuit of Happiness (Kalman), 629–
anecdotes, as evidence, 72
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 224–
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver), 106–
Animal Farm (Orwell), 388–
“Animal’s Place, An” (Pollan), 107–
“Anonymous Back-
antagonist, 36, 649
“A & P” (Updike), 455–
appeal, evidence and, 404
“Are Humans Necessary?” (Atwood), 905–
arguable claims, 59–
Arguing the Point (Currier), 3
“Argument against Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 8” (Sanford), 78–
arguments
synthesis arguments, 529–
writing, 399–
See also rhetoric
Art of Courtly Love, The (Capellanus), 717
Asimov, Isaac, “Robot Dreams,” 900–
As You Like It (Shakespeare). See “Seven Ages of Man, The” (Shakespeare)
Atwood, Margaret, “Are Humans Necessary?,” 905–
Auden, W. H., “Musée des Beaux Arts,” 318–
audience, rhetorical situation and, 63
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, 45–
Auth, Tony, 525–
Automat (Hopper), 651–
Ayrton, Michael, 293
B
Bacon, Francis, 2
Bagley, Pat, 58
Baldwin, James, 754
bandwagon appeal, 77
Bao, Vu. See Vu Bao, “The Man Who Stained His Soul”
Bar-
Barrat, James, Our Final Invention, 932–
Bassano, Jacopo, 430
Beecher, Henry Ward, 175
Bergland, Christopher, “Cheaters Never Win,” 498–
Berry, Wendell, “The Pleasures of Eating,” 106
“Better Than Human” (Kelly), 910–
bias, detecting, 76
Blake, William, “The Tyger,” 53–
blocking, 247–
block quotes, 660
Blow, Charles, “Eye-
body paragraphs, 406–
Bol, Ferdinand, Fall of Icarus, 321
Bostrom, Nick, 929
BotPoet.com, 902
Bourke-
Bowen, Daniel, “High School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics” (with Collin Hitt), 97–
Bowie, David, 124–
“Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” (Thompson), 789–
Brooks, David, 74–
Brooks, Rosa, “In Defense of Killer Robots,” 936–
Bruegel, Pieter, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, 319
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 210
Burke, Kenneth, 69
Bush, George H. W., 557
Bush, George W., 80
C
Callahan, David, The Cheating Culture, 510–
Capellanus, Andreas, The Art of Courtly Love, 717
Carr, Nicholas, “The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains,” 18–
Carson, Rachel, 57–
Carver, Raymond, “Popular Mechanics,” 39–
“Case against High School Sports, The” (Ripley), 93–
“Case against Perfection, The” (Sandel), 415–
“Case for a Higher Minimum Wage, The” (New York Times), 61
“Case for High School Sports, The” (Sato), 96–
Catcher in the Rye, The (Salinger), 48–
Catt, Carrie Chapman, “Women’s Suffrage Is Inevitable,” 383–
“Cell One” (Adichie), 435–
Cervantes, Miguel de, Don Quixote, 345–
“Challenger Speech” (Reagan), 64–
Challenge to Democracy, A (U.S. War Relocation Authority), 540–
“Changes” (Bowie), 124–
character and theme
analyzing
characterization, 651–
connecting character and meaning, 653–
culminating activity, 656
types of characters, 649–
writing about
introduction, 657
Step 1: gathering evidence, 658
Step 2: stating thesis, 658–
Step 3: integrating evidence, 660–
Step 4: structuring essay, 661–
characterization, 35–
Chauvet Cave drawings, 25–
“Cheaters Never Win” (Bergland), 498–
Cheating Culture, The (Callahan), 510–
“Cheating Is Good for You” (Consalvo), 506–
“Cheating Upwards” (Kolker), 481–
“Children as Enemies” (Jin), 763–
Chivalry (Dicksee), 706
Christina’s World (Wyeth), 245
Cisneros, Sandra, “No Speak English,” 761–
“Civil Peace” (Achebe), 885–
claims, 59–
Clarke, Arthur C., 10
close analyses, writing
introduction, 844–
Step 1: analyzing passage, 845–
Step 2: finding focus, 848
Step 3: developing thesis, 848–
Step 4: providing textual evidence, 849–
Step 5: addressing significance, 850–
close reading, 951–
Collins, Suzanne, 649
Common School Journal (Mann), 213–
Common Sense (Paine), 374–
Comparative Test Scores (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), 100
conclusions, 663, 958–
conflict, 37, 41
connotation, 45, 79, 945
Consalvo, Mia, “Cheating Is Good for You,” 506–
context
literacy and, 13–
in literary analyses, 661
tone and, 944–
writing arguments and, 405
“Contribution to Statistics, A” (Szymborska), 464–
Cooper, Robbie, Alter Egos: Avatars and Their Creators, 813–
counterarguments, 74–
Coupland, Douglas, 27, 654
Coypel, Charles-
Crèvecoeur, J. Hector St. John, Letters from an American Farmer, 612–
curiosities, 32
Currier, Nathaniel, Arguing the Point, 3
Cyrano de Bergerac (Rostand), 667–
D
Dalí, Salvador, The Persistence of Memory, 29
Dalzell, Tom, 775
Dargis, Mahnola, “Sugar, Spice and Guts” (with A. O. Scott), 90
d’Ascenzo, Nicola, 160
data, as evidence, 72
debatable claims, 403
Democracy and Education (Dewey), 175
denotation, 45, 945
details, 244–
“Deuce Out” (Schultz), 578–
“Devil’s Thumb, The” (Krakauer), 125–
Dewey, John
Democracy and Education, 175
on scientific method, 12
DeWitt, John, 557
dialogue, 245–
Dickens, Charles, A Tale of Two Cities, 44
Dickinson, Emily, “My river runs to thee,” 49
Dicksee, Frank, Chivalry, 706
diction
in close analyses, 847
in literature, 45–
tone and, 943–
Dillard, Annie, An American Childhood, 466–
direct characterization, 36, 651
Dirkse, Owen, 69
Disgrace of Cardinal Wolsey, The (Pettie), 335
“Dis Poem” (Mutabaruka), 770–
Don Quixote (Cervantes), 345–
Don Quixote Being Led by Folly (Coypel), 348
“Do Sports Build Character or Damage It?” (Edmundson), 98–
“Dothead” (Majmudar), 627–
Douglass, Frederick, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 755–
“Do You Like Me? Click Yes or No” (Harrington), 834–
drama, literary elements in, 38
dramatic irony, 292, 840
“Dulce et Decorum Est” (Owen), 566–
Dumas, Firoozeh, “Hot Dogs and Wild Geese,” 777–
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, “Sympathy,” 232
dynamic characters, 650
E
“Eating Poetry” (Strand), 17
Edmundson, Mark, “Do Sports Build Character or Damage It?,” 98–
Edward Scissorhands, 28, 38
Egan, Tim, “The Hoax of Digital Life,” 807–
either-
Elliot, Carl, “In Defense of the Beta Blocker,” 498
Elliot, Jane, 611
embedded quotes, 660
Englander, Nathan, “Free Fruit for Young Widows,” 445–
“English” (Agosín), 780–
English class, 10–
ethos, 69–
evaluating sources, 102–
“Eveline” (Joyce), 238
evidence
evaluating, 102–
organizing, 101–
rhetoric and, 71–
textual, 103–
writing arguments and, 403–
“Ex-
expert opinion, as evidence, 72
“Eye-
F
“Facebook Sonnet” (Alexie), 811–
Fall of Icarus (Bol), 321
Fall of the Rebel Angels, The (Le Brun), 430
false dilemma, 77
Family Tree (Huan), 767
“Famous” (Nye), 33–
Faulkner, William, 350
faulty analogies, 528
figurative imagery, 47
figurative language, 47, 52, 80, 847
first person, 35
Fisher, Richard, “Is It OK to Torture or Murder a Robot?,” 917–
flat characters, 650
“Flight 063” (Aldiss), 322–
floodgates fallacy, 77
focused observation, 12–
Foer, Jonathan Safran, “Let Them Eat Dog,” 108–
foil, 650
“For a New Citizen of These United States” (Lee), 618–
formal diction, 45–
Francis, Alexander, Ralph Wheelock’s Farm, 613
Franklin, Ben, “Join, or Die,” 376
“Free Fruit for Young Widows” (Englander), 445–
“Free to Be Happy” (Meacham), 892–
Friends with Boys (Hicks), 185–
Fukuyama, Francis, “Transhumanism,” 928–
Fuseli, Johann Heinrich
Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers, 273
The Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth, 305
G
Gage, Rob, Katie and the Dock Workers, 460
Galiliei, Galileo, 56
García Márquez, Gabriel, “Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, A,” 428–
Gatto, John Taylor, “Against School,” 207–
Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, The (Robbins), 176–
Geisel, Theodor Suess, 548
“Gettysburg Address” (Lincoln), 570
Giovanni, Nikki, “Nikki-
Girl and Her Room, A (Matar), 156
Girl at a Window Reading a Letter (Vermeer), 165
Gold, Jack, 307
Goodall, Jane, 12–
Good Samaritan parable, 430
Goold, Rupert, 271, 307
Goya, Francisco, 32–
Grantland, 6
Griffiths, Jay, “The Tips of Your Fingers,” 79
Guernica (Picasso), 15
Gutenberg, Johannes, 2, 4
H
Hammett, Dashiell, The Maltese Falcon, 47
Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun, 43
“Happy Family” (Shore), 879–
Harbisson, Neil, 930
Harrington, Jason Edward, “Do You Like Me? Click Yes or No,” 834–
Harris, Sam, “Lying,” 470–
“Harrison Bergeron” (Vonnegut), 871–
hasty generalization, 77
Hawking, Stephen, 899
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, The Scarlet Letter, 41–
Hayden, Palmer, Midsummer Night in Harlem, 245
Heavenly Creatures, 149
Heller, Joe, Stone of Hope statue, 358
Heller, Joseph, 27–
Henry V (Shakespeare). See “St. Crispin’s Day Speech, The”
Henry VIII (Shakespeare), 334–
Hicks, Edward, 854
Hicks, Faith Erin, Friends with Boys, 185–
“High School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics” (Bowen and Hitt), 97–
Hitt, Collin, “High School Sports Aren’t Killing Academics” (with Daniel Bowen), 97–
“Hoax of Digital Life, The” (Egan), 807–
Hoepker, Thomas, 13–
Homer, Odyssey, 36–
hooks, 405, 661
Hopper, Edward
Automat, 651–
Summer Evening, 835
Horace’s School: Redesigning the American High School (Sizer), 217–
Horrocks, Caitlyn, “Zolaria,” 144–
“Hot Dogs and Wild Geese” (Dumas), 777–
House, Arthur, “The Real Cyborgs,” 921–
How of Happiness, The (Lyubomirsky), 88–
Huan, Zhang, Family Tree, 767
Hume, David, 56
hyperbole, 47, 393. See also figurative language
I
“Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die, An” (Mandela), 364–
“I Have Been to the Mountaintop” (King), 355–
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Angelou), 224–
imagery, 47–
“Inching toward Harrison Bergeron” (Williamson), 875
“In Defense of Killer Robots” (Brooks), 936–
“In Defense of the Beta Blocker” (Elliot), 498
indirect characterization, 36, 651
Industrial Revolution, 2
informal diction, 45–
information age, 3–
informed opinions, 401–
“In Response to Executive Order 9066” (Okita), 553
integrating textual evidence, 660–
In the Hot Zone (Sites), 588–
Into the Wild (book and screenplay), 138–
introductions, 661–
irony
effect of, 842–
types of, 838–
“Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” (Marche), 813
“Is Human Enhancement Cheating?” (Allenby), 502–
“Is It OK to Torture or Murder a Robot?” (Fisher), 917–
Iyer, Pico, “The Joy of Less,” 882–
J
James, LeBron, 68
Jetsons, 898
Jin, Ha, “Children as Enemies,” 763–
“Join, or Die” (Franklin), 376
Jones, Samuel John Egbert, “Macbeth,” Act 1, Scene 3, the Weird Sisters, 258
Joyce, James, “Eveline,” 162–
“Joy of Less, The” (Iyer), 882–
K
Kahlo, Frida, Self-
Kalman, Maira, And the Pursuit of Happiness, 629–
Kambanda, Nola, “My New World Journey,” 620–
Kant, Immanuel, 454, 463
Katie and the Dock Workers (Gage), 460
Kelly, Kevin, “Better Than Human,” 910–
Khelifa, Karim Ben, “My Enemy, Myself,” 605–
Kincaid, Jamaica
“On Seeing England for the First Time,” 80
A Small Place, 856–
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
“I Have Been to the Mountaintop,” 355–
“Letter from Birmingham Jail,” 81
King, Stephen, 649–
Kingsolver, Barbara, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 106–
Klosterman, Chuck, “Why We Look the Other Way,” 492–
Kluger, Jeffrey, “Ambition: Why Some People Are Most Likely to Succeed,” 324–
Kolker, Robert, “Cheating Upwards,” 481–
Komunyakaa, Yusef, “Slam, Dunk, & Hook,” 50–
Kozol, Jonathan, 232
Krakauer, Jon, “The Devil’s Thumb,” 125–
Krauthammer, Charles, “Redskins and Reason,” 89–
Kruger, Barbara, 772
Kurosawa, Akira, Throne of Blood, 263
Kurzweil, Ray, The Singularity Is Near, 928
L
Lady Macbeth Seizing the Daggers (Fuseli), 273
Lakoff, George, 647
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (Bruegel), 319
“Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” (Williams), 320–
Lange, Dorothea, 538, 550–
language and style
literature and
diction, 45–
figurative language, 47, 52
imagery, 47–
introduction, 44–
syntax, 46–
rhetoric and
allusion, 80–
connotative language, 79
figurative language, 80
parallel structure, 81
rhetorical questions, 81
Last Child in the Woods (Louv), 61
Learning to Look at Paintings (Acton), 647
Le Brun, Charles, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 430
Lee, Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird, 26, 37
Lee, Li-
Le Guin, Ursula K., “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” 866–
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” (King), 81
Letters from an American Farmer (Crèvecoeur), 612–
“Let Them Eat Dog” (Foer), 108–
Life Goes On, 16
Lim, Genny, “Winter Palace,” 47–
limited omniscient narrator, 35
Lincoln, Abraham
Gettysburg Address, 570
second inaugural address, 80–
links. See allusion
literacy
analysis and, 11–
context and, 13–
Culminating Activity
“Eating Poetry” (Strand), 17
Persepolis (Satrapi), 20–
“The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains” (Carr), 18–
defining, 1–
English class and, 10–
information age and, 3–
literacy communities, 5–
sample analysis: Life Goes On, 16
literal imagery, 47
literary evidence. See textual evidence
literature, thinking about
analyzing literature, 26–
analyzing style and theme, 49–
Culminating Activity: “The Tyger” (Blake) and “The Tell-
introduction, 25–
language and style
diction, 45–
figurative language, 47, 52
imagery, 47–
introduction, 44–
model analysis: The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), 48–
syntax, 46–
literary elements
characterization, 35–
plot and conflict, 36–
point of view, 35, 40
setting, 37, 41
symbol, 38, 41
model analysis: “Popular Mechanics” (Carver), 39–
theme, 31–
logical fallacies, 76–
logos, 66–
“Losing a Language” (Merwin), 784–
Louv, Richard, Last Child in the Woods, 61
“Lying” (Harris), 470–
Lyubomirsky, Sonja, The How of Happiness, 88–
M
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 254–
“Macbeth,” Act 1, Scene 3, Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches (Zuccarelli), 258
“Macbeth,” Act 1, Scene 3, the Weird Sisters (Jones), 258
Madrigal, Alexis C., “Why Facebook and Google’s Concept of ‘Real Names’ Is Revolutionary,” 827–
Mairs, Nancy, “On Being a Cripple,” 61
Majmudar, Amit, “Dothead,” 627–
Malcolm X, 759
Maltese Falcon, The (Hammett), 47
Mandela, Nelson, “An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die,” 364–
Mann, Horace, Common School Journal, 213–
“Man Who Stained His Soul, The” (Vu Bao), 572–
Map of Endangered Languages by Country (UNESCO), 785
Marche, Stephen, “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?,” 813
Martin, Steve, 682
Maslow, Abraham, 883
Matar, Rania, A Girl and Her Room, 156
McAuley, Paul, 892
McGonigal, Jane, Reality Is Broken, 88–
McKay, Claude, “America,” 44
McKee, Rick, 500
Meacham, Jon, “Free to Be Happy,” 892–
Mean Girls, 181
Men of Respect, 267
Merwin, W. S., “Losing a Language,” 784–
metaphor, 47, 393. See also figurative language
Midsummer Night in Harlem (Palmer), 245
Mill, John Stuart, 463
minor characters, 649–
“Mirror” (Plath), 112
More, Thomas, 855, 892
“Musée des Beaux Arts” (Auden), 318–
Mutabaruka, “Dis Poem,” 770–
“My Enemy, Myself” (Khelifa), 605–
“My New World Journey” (Kambanda), 620–
“My river runs to thee” (Dickinson), 49
“My Son the Man” (Olds), 154–
N
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Douglass), 755–
Newton, Isaac, 88
New York Times, “The Case for a Higher Minimum Wage,” 61
Night (Wiesel), 455
“Nikki-
nonverbal texts, 7
“No Speak English” (Cisneros), 761–
Nunn, Trevor, 307
Nye, Naomi Shihab, “Famous,” 33–
O
Obama, Barack
diction used by, 647
parallel structure used by, 81
straw man fallacy used by, 408–
objective narrator, 35
O’Brien, Tim, 558, 610
occasion, rhetorical situation and, 63
Odyssey (Homer), 36–
Okita, Dwight, 553
Olds, Sharon, “My Son the Man” and “The Possessive,” 154–
omniscient narrator, 35
“On Being a Cripple” (Mairs), 61
“Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The” (Le Guin), 866–
“On Seeing England for the First Time” (Kincaid), 80
opposites, 32, 33
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Comparative Test Scores, 100
Orwell, George
Animal Farm, 388–
“Shooting an Elephant,” 114–
on Utopia, 892
Otsuka, Julie, When the Emperor Was Divine, 537–
Our Final Invention (Barrat), 932–
Owen, Wilfred, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” 566–
“Ozymandias” (Shelley), 332–
P
Paine, Thomas, Common Sense, 374–
parallel structure, 81
paraphrasing, 660–
pathos, 68, 404
Persepolis (Satrapi), 20–
Persistence of Memory, The (Dalí), 29
personal experience, as evidence, 72
personal narratives, writing
Step 1: finding a topic, 241–
Step 2: determining what to reveal, 242
Step 3: organizing and starting narrative, 243
Step 4: using details, 244–
Step 5: using dialogue, 245–
Step 6: using blocking, 247–
Step 7: reflecting on significance, 249
personification, 47, 393. See also figurative language
Pettie, John, The Disgrace of Cardinal Wolsey, 335
Pew Research Center American Values Survey, 514
Picasso, Pablo, Guernica, 15
Pick, Xavier, 579, 601
Pitts, Leonard, Jr., “The Anonymous Back-
Plath, Sylvia, “Mirror,” 112
Plato, 56
“Pleasures of Eating, The” (Berry), 106
plot, 41
plot and conflict, 36–
Plunkett, Mary, 163
Poe, Edgar Allan
“The Raven,” 38
“The Tell-
poetry, literary elements in, 38
point of view
in close analysis, 847
in literature, 35, 40
in narrative, 235–
Polanski, Roman, 271, 307
Pollan, Michael, “An Animal’s Place,” 107–
“Popular Mechanics” (Carver), 39–
“Possessive, The” (Olds), 156–
Pride and Prejudice (Austen), 45–
Prose, Francine, 32
protagonist, 36, 649
Ptichek, Nastya, 835
purpose, rhetorical situation and, 63
Q
questions
choosing an argument topic and, 399
rhetorical, 81
“Quilt of a Country, A” (Quindlen), 615–
Quindlen, Anna, “A Quilt of a Country,” 615–
quotes, 660
R
Raisin in the Sun, A (Hansberry), 43
Ralph Wheelock’s Farm (Francis), 613
Rault, Jean-
“Raven, The” (Poe), 38
reading, close, 951–
Reagan, Ronald, “Challenger Speech,” 64–
“Real Cyborgs, The” (House), 921–
Reality Is Broken (McGonigal), 88–
“Redskins and Reason” (Krauthammer), 89–
repetitions, 32
research, as evidence, 72
rhetoric
claims, 59–
counterarguments, 74–
Culminating Activity: “Why I Let My 9-
evidence, 71–
famous examples, 56–
language and style
allusion, 80–
connotative language, 79
figurative language, 80
parallel structure, 81
rhetorical questions, 81
pitfalls and vulnerabilities
bias, 76
logical fallacies, 76–
rhetorical appeals
ethos, 69–
logos, 66–
pathos, 68
rhetorical situation, 62–
sample analysis: Whole Foods Market, 83–
value of, 55–
rhetorical analysis
close reading and, 951–
writing
Step 1: thesis statement, 955–
Step 2: textual evidence, 957–
Step 3: conclusions, 958–
rhetorical questions, 81
Rich, Frank, 14
Ripley, Amanda, “The Case against High School Sports,” 93–
Robbins, Alexandra, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth, 176–
“Robot Dreams” (Asimov), 900–
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), 30, 31, 38
Roosevelt, Teddy, 119
Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac, 667–
round characters, 650
Rousseau, Henri, The Sleeping Gypsy, 127
Roxanne, 682
“Rules of the Game, The” (Tan), 336–
S
“Saigon Execution” (Adams), 598
Salinger, J. D., The Catcher in the Rye, 48–
Samuel, Alexandra, “10 Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life,” 808
Sandel, Michael
“The Case against Perfection,” 415–
ethical dilemma posed by, 411
Sanford, J. B., “Argument against Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 8,” 78–
Sato, Kai, “The Case for High School Sports,” 96–
Satrapi, Marjane, Persepolis, 20–
Scarlet Letter, The (Hawthorne), 41–
scholarly research, as evidence, 72
School Days of an Indian Girl, The (Zitkala-
Schultz, Katey, “Deuce Out,” 578–
Scientific American, 179
Scott, A. O., “Sugar, Spice and Guts” (with Manohla Dargis), 90
Sculpture of Love and Anguish, The (Treister), 450
second person, 35
Self-
setting, 37, 41
“Seven Ages of Man, The” (Shakespeare), 159–
Shakespeare, William
Henry VIII, 334–
Macbeth, 254–
Romeo and Juliet, 30, 31, 38
“The Seven Ages of Man,” 159–
“The St. Crispin’s Day Speech,” 568–
“Shallows, The” (Carr), 18–
Shamsie, Kamila, “The Storytellers of Empire,” 559–
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, “Ozymandias,” 332–
“Shooting an Elephant” (Orwell), 114–
Shootings of May Third 1808, The (Goya), 32–
Shore, Jane, “Happy Family,” 879–
Silent Spring (Carson), 57–
simile, 47, 393. See also figurative language
Singularity Is Near, The (Kurzweil), 928
Sites, Kevin, In the Hot Zone, 588–
situational irony, 839–
Sizer, Theodore, Horace’s School: Redesigning the American High School, 217–
Skenazy, Lenore, “Why I Let My 9-
“Slam, Dunk, & Hook” (Komunyakaa), 50–
“Slang for the Ages” (Stamper), 773–
Sleeping Gypsy, The (Rousseau), 127
Sleepwalking Lady Macbeth, The (Fuseli), 305
slippery slope fallacy, 77
Small Place, A (Kincaid), 856–
Snow White, 110, 112
SOAPS acronym, 63–
Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School, 167–
Speak (Anderson), 26–
speaker, rhetorical situation and, 63–
Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly (Yousafzai), 378–
Spence, Rob, 922
Spider-
Stafford, William, “Traveling through the Dark,” 462–
Stamper, Kory, “Slang for the Ages,” 773–
static characters, 650
statistics, as evidence, 72
“St. Crispin’s Day Speech, The” (Shakespeare), 568–
Steiner, Peter, 665, 666
Stock, Patricia, 2
Stone of Hope statue (Heller), 358
“Storytellers of Empire, The” (Shamsie), 559–
Stossel, John, “What’s Fair?,” 72–
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 56–
Strand, Mark, “Eating Poetry,” 17
straw man fallacy, 408–
strength of evidence, 404
structuring an essay, 661–
subject, rhetorical situation and, 63
“Sugar, Spice and Guts” (Scott and Dargis), 90
Summer Evening (Hopper), 835
supporting characters, 649–
Swift, Graham, 25
symbol, 38, 41
“Sympathy” (Dunbar), 232
syntax, 46–
synthesis arguments
Culminating Activity: ethics and economics of eating meat
“An Animal’s Place” (Pollan), 107–
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver), 106–
“Let Them Eat Dog” (Foer), 108–
“The Pleasures of Eating” (Berry), 106
working with a single source, 88–
working with multiple sources, 91–
writing
introduction, 529–
Step 1: analyzing sources, 530
Step 2: putting texts in conversation, 531
Step 3: taking a stand, 531–
Step 4: integrating sources into own argument, 532–
Szymborska, Wislawa
“A Contribution to Statistics,” 464–
“Utopia,” 890–
T
Tale of Two Cities, A (Dickens), 44
Tan, Amy, “The Rules of the Game,” 336–
Tanco, Miguel, 715
Tedrake, Russ, 899
“Tell-
Telnaes, Ann, 380
Terminator, 898–
textual evidence, 103–
Thayer, Ella Cheever, Wired Love, 826
theme
in literature, 31–
tone and, 949–
thesis statements
for close analyses, 848–
for literary analyses, 658–
for textual analyses, 955–
third person, 35
Thompson, Clive, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy,” 789–
Thomson, Judith Jarvis, 411
Throne of Blood (Kurosawa), 263
“Tips of Your Fingers, The” (Griffiths), 79
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 26, 37
Toles, Tom, 422
tone
diction and, 943–
theme and, 949–
topic sentences, 662
“Tortoise and the Hare, The,” 30
Tragedy of Macbeth, The (Shakespeare), 254–
“Transhumanism” (Fukuyama), 928–
“Traveling through the Dark” (Stafford), 462–
Treister, Kenneth, The Sculpture of Love and Anguish, 450
Turkle, Sherry
Alone Together, 801–
on Facebook pages, 788
Turner, Brian, “2000 lbs.,” 600–
Tutu, Desmond, 66
Twain, Mark, 897
“Tyger, The” (Blake), 53–
U
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Stowe), 56–
UNESCO, Map of Endangered Languages by Country, 785
Updike, John
“A & P,” 455–
“Ex-
“Utopia” (Szymborska), 890–
V
verbal irony, 839
Verdi, Giuseppe, 295
Vermeer, Jan, Girl at a Window Reading a Letter, 165
“Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, A” (García Márquez), 428–
viewpoints, evidence and, 404
Vonnegut, Kurt, “Harrison Bergeron,” 871–
Vu Bao, “The Man Who Stained His Soul,” 572–
W
Wallace, David Foster, 535
Wall Street, 252–
Watson, Emma, 158
“What’s Fair?” (Stossel), 72–
When the Emperor Was Divine (Otsuka), 537–
Whole Foods Market, 83–
“Why Facebook and Google’s Concept of ‘Real Names’ Is Revolutionary” (Madrigal), 827–
“Why I Let My 9-
“Why We Look the Other Way” (Klosterman), 492–
Wiesel, Elie
Night, 455
Nobel Prize speech, 82
Williams, William Carlos, “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus,” 320–
Williamson, Kevin D., “Inching toward Harrison Bergeron,” 875
“Winter Palace” (Lim), 47–
Wired Love (Thayer), 826
“Women’s Suffrage Is Inevitable” (Catt), 383–
Wonderful Balloon Ascents or the Conquest of the Skies, 323
Wyeth, Andrew, Christina’s World, 245
Y
Yang, Gene Yuen, “Adventures in Chinese Parenting,” 326
Yousafzai, Malala
Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly, 378–
value of rhetoric and, 58
Z
Zitkala-
“Zolaria” (Horrocks), 144–
Zuccarelli, Francesco, “Macbeth,” Act 1, Scene 3, Macbeth, Banquo and the Witches, 258