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 in class a group of students will make an oral/visual presentation in response to the week's assigned reading. To prepare for this presentation group members should collectively ask themselves certain basic questions about the reading (other kinds of preparation may also be undertaken, of course). A typical preparatory 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?"
N.B.: The group work and presentation require that each member of the group read ALL of the assigned readings. Group work should begin with a sharing of ideas about the reading as a whole.
Helpful websites for approaching and analyzing the assigned literary works can be found above.