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English: Internet Resources

Literary Overview & Genres

Literary Terms - Purdue Online Writing Lab resource outlining vocabulary and definitions for a variety of genres and written structures

Literary Theory - Written by a literature professor, provides an overview of eight literary theories as well as an extensive bibliography

Literary Genres - Provides a list of various types of literature with short descriptions

Rhetoric

Rhetorical Situations - Purdue Online Writing Lab resource exploring what rhetoric is and how it relates to writing through examples and videos

Classical Argument - Purdue Online Writing Lab resource that covers elements of rhetoric, its structure, and classical applications

Visual Rhetoric - Purdue Online Writing Lab resource on visual rhetoric and how to analyze visual documents

Finding Literary Examples

Poetry Archive - Hear contemporary poets read their own poems and listen to readings of poems by writers such as Emily Dickinson, John Keats, and William Shakespeare

Poets.org - Find poems by author, title, theme, occasion, or form in this collection of over 10,000 poems, both historic and contemporary

Narrative - Digital magazine publishing the best of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry

The Paris Review - Features interviews with authors from the 1950s to today, also offering a podcast and weekly  book reviews, and more.

American Verse Project - Archive of American poetry before 1920, with fulltext books available for download

bartleby - Offers full text books from before 1920, including poetry, short story anthologies, and how-to books on writing

College for Creative Studies website