Literary Terms and Their Definitions: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/lit_terms/

Literary Elements: http://www.orangeusd.k12.ca.us/yorba/literary_elements.htm

Elements of Literature: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/elements-of-literature.html

Elements of Literature II: http://languagearts.pppst.com/elements.html

Elements of Literature III:http://www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/OWL/ElementsLit.html

Literary Analysis: http://www.nvcc.edu/home/ataormina/eng256/support/analyzelit.htm

Literary Analysis Guide: http://www.goshen.edu/english/litanalysis.html;

The Literary Analysis Essay: http://www.english.wayne.edu/~peterson/Fiction/litessay.html;

A Handbook for Discussing Poetry: http://www.cc.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Handbook/Handbook.html;

A Glossary of Literary Terms and A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices:
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/Harris/rhetform.html;

Pathfinder: Literary Criticism: http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/PF/litcrit.html#terms.

Prof. Kimmelman's Literary Links:  http://web.njit.edu/~kimmelma/litsources.html

     See also:

Writing a Research Paper (http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/PF/litcrit.html#paper)

Writing Guides ( http://web.njit.edu/~kimmelma/writing.html )

Documentation Guides ( http://web.njit.edu/~kimmelma/documentation.html )
 
 

Group Presentations:  Each week or part of a week groups of students will work on their own in designated bulletin-board discussion areas to create a study question that involves the specifics of a literary work or a group of literary works by one or more authors. A typical study question might be something like this: "How does Author X use the main character in her narrative poem 'Y'  to explore the theme of redemption?" Once the week's question has been posted, the group will then set about to answer the questions other groups have posted, the answers furnished with the name of the group members who have composed the answers. A student's name should not be listed on a question or answer unless that student has contributed substantially to the creation of the question or answer. The questions and answers are to be posted in an appropriate discussion area; for example, if there are questions to be posted about some of the lais of Marie de France, then those questions must appear in the discussion area labeled "Marie de France," and answers to those questions should also appear in that discussion area, posted as a "Reply" to the questions.

N.B.: All assignments implicitly demand that each member of a team read ALL of the assigned readings. Group work should begin with a sharing of ideas about the reading as a whole. In order to carry out your group work properly, you should consult the "Study Questions" section of "Writing Assignments Guides," which can be accessed by clicking on the appropriate icon at the course Moodle homepage.

Helpful websites for approaching and analyzing the assigned literary works can be found above. The student who is proactive will be successful in this regard.