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Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

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Wuthering Heights eNotes Teaching Guide

by Tessie Barbosa

  • Released October 09, 2019
  • Language Arts and Literature subjects
  • 17 pages
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This guide highlights some of the most salient aspects of Wuthering Heights before you begin teaching Emily Brontë's iconic novel. In studying Wuthering Heights with your students, you'll help themexperience  the rhetorical power of literary devices like allusion and foil. Students can also engage with important themes, such as gender roles and nature versus civilization.

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