Reading materials for English studies
Reading materials for English studies
Resources for all English studies:
- Sparknotes:
This site provides summaries, quizzes, study questions, in-depth exploration of themes and motifs for literature, including Shakespeare plays.
- Cliffsnotes:
This site provides book summaries by acts/chapters, character analysis, quizzes, and study help.
- Shmoop:
This site provides book summaries, exploration into the themes, quizzes, character analysis, and even a glossary of literary terms.
- Grade Saver:
This site provides study guides for books of literature as well as poems.
- Book Rags:
This site provides some free book notes that contain chapter by chapter summary, quote analysis, as well as student study packs that are available for download.
- Study Blue:
This site provides a list of 166 literary terms for students to study from.
- Depaul University:
This site explains the basic structures and characters of comedy and tragedy plays.
- Owlcation:
This is an article pointing out the main structures of Shakespeare's plays by genre: history, comedy, tragedy. This one explains the 4 different types of writing styles.
- Venngage:
This article breaks down the steps in the Hero's Journey, also called the monomyth. Contains movie examples!
- Mental Floss:
This article explains 21 rhetorical devices for students who are writing persuative speeches or preparing for debates.
- Fast Web:
site gives tips for students writing essays.
- Poetry Foudation:
This provides a list of the different types of poems as well as poetic terms. In Poetry Foundation students can also find collections of poems and discover new poets.