Below are microplots: thumbnail descriptions of works of literature that are taught in classes at Central. See if you can recognize them! Click the heading for the answers and the classes where you might encounter them.
Author/Title
(Arthur Schwartz/Howard Dietz from "That’s Entertainment) William Shakespeare, Hamlet
English @ Central
ENG 220
ENG 462
Author/Title
James Joyce, Ulysses
English @ Central
ENG 458
ENG 489
Author/Title
Homer, The Iliad
English @ Central
ENG 203
ENG 363
Author/Title
Kate Chopin, “Story of an Hour”
English @ Central
ENG 211
ENG 343
Author/Title
Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
English @ Central
ENG 210
ENG 341
ENG 348
ENG 448
Author/Title
Toni Morrison, Beloved
English @ Central
ENG 211
ENG 343
ENG 345
ENG 348
ENG 448
Author/Title
Maryse Condé, Heremakhonon
English @ Central
ENG 211
ENG 388
ENG 488
Author/Title
James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain
English @ Central
ENG 211
ENG 343
ENG 345
Author/Title
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
English @ Central
ENG 204
ENG 348
Author/Title
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
English @ Central
ENG 204
ENG 388
ENG 488
Author/Title
Angie Thomas -The Hate U Give
English @ Central
ENG 343
Author/Title
John Suckling, “Out Upon It!”
English @ Central
ENG 205
ENG 333
ENG 358
ENG 458
Author/Title
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
English @ Central
ENG 203
ENG 363
Author/Title
Frederick Douglass, Autobiography
English @ Central
ENG 210
ENG 340
ENG 348
ENG 448
Author/Title
John Milton, Paradise Lost
English @ Central
ENG 205
ENG 451
Author/Title
“Rashomon,” directed by Akira Kurosawa
English @ Central
CINE 201
CINE 220
Author/Title
August Wilson, Fences
English @ Central
ENG 344
Author/Title
John Donne, “The Flea”
English @ Central
ENG 205
ENG 333
ENG 358
ENG 458
Author/Title
S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”
English @ Central
ENG 206
ENG 339
ENG 477
Author/Title
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
English @ Central
ENG 211
ENG 347
ENG 388
ENG 488
Author/Title
Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy
English @ Central
ENG 211
ENG 343
Author/Title
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
English @ Central
ENG 215
ENG 358
ENG 458
Author/Title
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
English @ Central
ENG 220
ENG 462
Author/Title
Horacio Castellanos Moya, Senselessness
English @ Central
ENG 347
ENG 388
ENG 488
Author/Title
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
English @ Central
ENG 220
ENG 461
Author/Title
Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World
English @ Central
ENG 347
Author/Title
Anne Bradstreet, "A Letter to her Husband Absent upon Employment"
English @ Central
ENG 210
ENG 340
ENG 348
ENG 448
ENG 522
Author/Title
Tayeb Saleh, Season of Migration to the North
English @ Central
ENG 204
ENG 388
ENG 388
Author/Title
Maceo Montoya, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza
English @ Central
ENG 347
Author/Title
Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Pardoner’s Tale”
English @ Central
ENG 205
ENG 331
Author/Title
Octavia Butler, Kindred
English @ Central
ENG 211
ENG 345
Author/Title
Octavia Butler, Kindred
English @ Central
ENG 215
ENG 343
ENG 345
Author/Title
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
English @ Central
ENG 344
Author/Title
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
English @ Central
ENG 341
ENG 348
ENG 448