Language: John Galsworthy, “Quality”

Fantasy: Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”

Dream Vision: Mark Twain, “My Platonic Sweetheart”

Magic Realism: Bernard Malamud, “Idiots First”

Stream of Consciousness (I): James Hilton, “Washington Is Situated…” 

Stream of Consciousness (II): Katherine Ann Porter, “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”

Characterization: W. Somerset Maugham, “The Verger”

Points of View (I): Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill, “The Singing Lesson”

Points of View (II): William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”

Suspense: Kate Chopin, “Desiree's Baby”, “The Story of an Hour”

Chronology and Reversement: Edith Wharton, “Roman Fever”

Disillusion (I): James Joyce, “Araby”

Disillusion (II): Sherwood Anderson, “I Want to Know Why”

Symbol and Irony: Shirley Jackson, “The Lottery”

Allegory: Graham Greene, “The Destructors”

The Plaintive Cry: James Joyce, “A Little Cloud”, “Clay”

The Feminist Voice: Virginia Woolf, “The Legacy”