Literary Resources
This site provides you with many links to information to help
you better understand the course material, and is intended to be an
introduction to web research. However, you must use your judgement
to determine which sites are most reliable for your purposes.
Glossary of Literary and Rhetorical
Terms
This site is maintained by
Jack Lynch, professor at Rutgers University, Newark. He also
provides a number of writing
resources and useful links on his main
page.
Literary Terms from University of Victoria's
Writer's Guide
You can also find
writing help on the main Writer's Guide page.
Handbook of Terms for Discussing
Poetry
Compiled by Harry Rusche
at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.
Elements of the Short Story
From Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute. This
site offers explanations of terms such as character, setting, plot,
point of view and theme.
Glossary of Literary and Poetic
Terms
Links from the Vancouver Public Library Online to Robert Harris'
Glossary of Literary Terms at Virtualsalt.com and Robert G.
Shubinski's Glossary of Poetic Terms.