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Jago, Literature & Composition 1e
Avoiding Plagiarism
How to Guides and Checklists
Litgloss
Readings
Sample Papers
Video Cetral Literature
Video Cetral Literature Transcripts
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