Close Reading Links

What is Close Reading? (Mantex.co.uk Press)

Close Reading (Purdue OWL)

Critical Reading: A Guide (Professor John Lye)

Providing Close Reading Evidence (Norton)

Close Reading Poetry Sample (Purdue OWL)

Close Reading Poetry Sample II (Modern American Poetry)

Close Reading Prose (Fiction) Sample (CGU Writing Center)

Short introduction to metaphor: Jame Geary

Literary Terms

Similes and Metaphors

Literary Terms with The Deadly Syndrome!

Flocabulary – Five Things (Elements of a Short Story)

Literary Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Bedford Glossary of Literary Terms

Stockton students and library patrons may access all Oxford References (listed below). From the library homepage, select “Dictionaries.” Oxford Reference Online is the first link.

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature The Oxford Companion to American Literature The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature The Oxford Companion to English Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature

The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain & Ireland The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction A Dictionary of Shakespeare The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English A Dictionary of Writers and their Works

Citation

MLA Citation Basics (Purdue OWL)

American Literature

Outline of American Literature (US Government)

Bibliography: Outline of American Literature (US Government)

Contemporary American Literature (US Government)

Dr. J’s A-Z Literature Links (Professor Kristin Jacobson)