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Grammar
Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
From subject-verb agreement and conjunctions to writing thesis statements,
this comprehsive site has everything you want to know about English grammar.
Go to the quizzes to practice and improve your grammar skills.
OWL:
Handouts: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html
Handouts and exercises related to grammar. ESL learners should click on
for the special special section just for you. From the Purdue University
Online Writing Lab (OWL).
Internet Public Library
Online Literary Criticism
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit
"Contains 4637 critical and biographical websites about authors and
their works that can be browsed by author, by title, or by literary period.
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Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit
Hundreds of links in many categories, selected and annotated by Jack Lynch,
professor of English at Rutgers University.
Handbook
of Rhetorical Devices
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm
Look
up terms such as alliteration, personifcation, etc.
A Glossary of Literary
Terms
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
Can't find your term in the handbook of rhetorical devices? Look here.
Aesop's Fables
Online Collection
http://www.aesopfables.com
All of Aesop's fables. Also includes text of Andersen's Fairy Tales.
Encyclopedia Mythica
: Mythology, Folklore and Legends
http://www.pantheon.org/
Thousands of definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings, legendary
objects, creatures and places from around the world. Also includes images
of deities.
Academy of
American Poets
http://www.poets.org/index.cfm
Poems, critical essays, biographies of poets, and RealAudio clips of poets
reading their work. Check here, too, for information on poetry prizes
and awards.
Barlteby.com
http://www.bartleby.com/verse/
Full text of English and American poetry from 1250 to 1920. Scroll down
to the middle of the page for the Indexes to the Anthologies (search by
author, title, first line, as well as chronological order). Also includes
full text collections of works by individual poets, including Dante, Elliot,
Frost, Keats, Yeats, Wilde and others.
Poetry 180 : A Poem a Day
for American High Schools
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/
A poem for every school day, chosen by Poet Laureate Billy Collins
Representative Poetry On-Line
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
Includes about 2,350 English poems by 368 poets from Caedmon, in the Old
English period, to the work of living poets today
Shakespeare
Literary Criticism: Shakespeare
http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?au=sha-9
The Shakespeare section of the Online Literary Criticism Collection of
the Internet Public Library website.
Mr. William
Shakespeare and the Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/
The best annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources on the
Internet.
Shakespeare Illustrated
http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Shakespeare.html
"Explores nineteenth-century paintings, criticism and productions
of Shakespeare's plays and their influences on one another."
Study
Guides for Books
Find information about the author, plot summaries,
critical analysis at these study guide sites.
Classic Notes by GradeSaver
http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/
SparkNotes
http://www.sparknotes.com/
NovelGuide -- Novel Resource Guide and Literary Analysis
http://www.novelguide.com/
Vocabulary
100 Words that All High School Graduates Should Know
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/booksellers/press_release/ahdcollege/#words
Compiled by the editors of the American Heritage College Dictionary.
Vocabulary, Free
Word Puzzles and Activities
http://www.vocabulary.com/
Improve your vocabulary and prep for the SAT at this fun site.
Vocabulary.com
Most Important SAT Words
http://www.vocabulary.com/AOLtopsatwords12.html
Word puzzles to help you practice vocabulary on the SAT.
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