Resources

Avoiding Plagiarism

• Introduction: Acknowledging Sources
• Knowing Which Sources to Acknowledge
• Maintaining a Working Bibliography
• Taking Notes: Knowing Where Each Idea and Word Comes From
• Avoiding Plagiarism

How to Guides and Checklists

• Checklist: Drafting Your Document
• Checklist: Editing Your Document
• Checklist: Exploring Your Topic
• Checklist: Conducting an Interview
• Checklist: Narrowing Your Topic
• Checklist: Taking Notes
• Checklist: Conducting an Observation
• Checklist: Avoiding Plagiarism
• Checklist: Revising Your Document
• Checklist: Create Your Search Plan
• Checklist: Skimming Sources
• Checklist: Integrating Source Information into Your Document
• Checklist: Conducting a Survey

Litgloss

• Accent
• Act
• Allegory
• Alliteration
• Allusion
• Ambiguity
• Anagram
• Anaseptic
• Antagonist
• Antihero
• Apostrophe
• Approximate Rhyme
• Archetype
• Aside
• Assonance
• Ballad
• Ballad Stanza
• Biographical Criticism
• Blank Verse
• Cacophoy
• Caesura
• Canon
• Carpe Diem
• Catharsis
• Character, characterization
• Chorus
• Cliche
• Climax
• Closet Drama
• Colloquial
• Comedy
• Comic Relief
• Conflict
• Connotation
• COnsonance
• Contextual Symbol
• COntrolling Metaphor
• Convention
• COnventional Symbol
• Cosmic Irony
• Couplet
• Crisis
• Cultural Criticism
• Dactylic Meter
• Deconstructionism
• Denotation
• Denouemt
• Dialect
• Dialogue
• Diction
• Didactic Poetry
• Doggerel
• Drama
• Dramatic Irony
• Dramatic Monologue
• Dynamic Character
• Editorial Omniscience
• Electra Complex
• Elegy
• End Rhyme
• End-stopped Line
• English Sonnet
• Enjambment
• Envoy
• Epic
• Epigram
• Epiphany
• Escape Literature
• Euphony
• Exact Rhyme
• Exposition
• Extended Metaphor
• Eye Rhyme
• Falling Action
• Falling Meter
• Farce
• Feminine Rhyme
• Feminist Criticism
• Figures of Speech
• First Person Narrator
• Fixed Form
• Flashback
• Flat Character
• Foil
• Foot
• foreshadowing
• Form
• Forman Diction
• Formalist Criticism
• formula Literature
• found Poem
• Free Verse
• Gay and Lesbian Criticism
• Gender Criticism
• Genre
• Haiku
• Hamartia
• Hero Heroine
• Heroic Couplet
• Comedy
• Historical Criticism
• Hubris or Hybris
• Hyperbole
• Iambic Meter
• Iambic Pentameter
• Image
• Implied Metaphor
• In Medias Res
• Informal Diction
• Internal Rhyme
• Irony
• Italian Sonnet
• Limerick
• Limeted Omniscience
• Line
• Literary Ballad
• Literary Symbol
• Low Comedy
• Lyric
• Marxist Criticism
• Masculine Rhyme
• Melodrama
• Metaphor
• Meter
• Metonymy
• Middle Diction
• Motivated Action
• Mythological Criticism
• Naive Narrator
• Narrative Poem
• Narrator
• Near Rhyme
• Neutra Omniscience
• New Criticism
• New Historicism
• Objective Point of View
• Octave
• Ode
• Oedipus Complex
• Off Rhyme
• Omniscient Narrator
• One Act Play
• Onomatopoeia
• Open Form
• Organic Form
• Overstatement
• Oxymoron
• Paradox
• Paraphrase
• Parody
• Persona
• Personification
• Petrarchan Sonnet
• Picture Poem
• Plausible Action
• Play
• Playwright
• Plot
• Poetic Diction
• Point of View
• Post-colonial Criticism
• Problem Play
• Prologue
• Prose Poem
• Prosody
• Protagonist
• Psychological Criticism
• Pun
• Pyramidal Pattern
• Quatrain
• Reader Response Criticism
• Recognition
• Resolution
• Revenge Tragedy
• Reversal
• Rhyme
• Rhyme Scheme
• Rhythm
• Rising Action
• Rising Meter
• Romantic Comedy
• Round Character
• Run-on Line
• Sarcasm
• Satire
• Scansion
• Scene
• Script
• Sentimentality
• Sestet
• Sestina
• Setting
• Shakespearean Sonnet
• Showing
• Simile
• Situational Irony
• Slant Rhyme
• Sociological Criticism
• Soliloquy
• Sonnet
• Speaker
• Spondee
• Stage Directions
• Stanza
• Static Character
• Stock Character
• Stock Responses
• Stream of Consciousness Technique
• Stress
• Style
• Subplot
• Suspense
• Symbol
• Synecdoche
• Syntax
• Telling
• Tercet
• Terza Rima
• Theme
• Thesis
• Tone
• Tragedy
• Tragic Flaw
• Tragic Irony
• Tragicomedy
• Triplet
• Trochaic Meter
• Understatement
• Unreliable Narrator
• Verbal Irony
• Verse
• Villanelle
• Well Made Play

Readings

• Crane, The Open Boat
• Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
• Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
• Maupassant, the Necklase
• Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher
• Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

Sample Papers

• Duffy, The Feminist Evidence in Susan Glaspell's Trifles
• Effectively “Managing” Grief
• Separate Sorrows
• The Structure of Story in Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif”
• Challenging Readers’ Expectations
• Opposing Voices in “Ballad of the Landlord”

Video Cetral Literature

• T. Coraghessan Boyle, On Comedy in Fiction
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, On Character and Dialogue in Fiction
• Ha Jin, On Tension and Conflict in Fiction
• Frank McCourt, On Voice and Storytelling
• Anne Rice on Transition

Video Cetral Literature Transcripts

• T. Coraghessan Boyle, On Comedy in Fiction
• Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, On Character and Dialogue in Fiction
• Ha Jin, On Tension and Conflict in Fiction
• Frank McCourt, On Voice and Storytelling
• Anne Rice on Transition