Literary Analysis Homework Help Resources

a great guide to literary theory

This online handout explains what a literary review is, how to plan for writing, and strategies for writing a thesis statement, organizing and supporting your thesis and concluding the review.

Help with Shakespearian sonnets and plays

So we're supposed to answer a question on the poem Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson for AP English tomorrow. We're supposed to answer these two questions: 1)Identify Thebes, Camelot, Priam, and the Medici. What names and what sort of life does each call up? What does Miniver's love of these names tell about him? 2) The phrase "rested from his labors" alludes to the Bible and to Greek mythology. Explore the ironic effect of comparing Miniver to the Creator (Gen. 2.2) and to Hercules. Point out other examples of irony in the poem and discuss their importance....these questions have me totally stumped. I've got the rest of the assignment done, but I'm helpless when it comes to poetry. If you could help in any way it'd be greatly appreciated!!! (here's a link to the poem: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/poem/174244 )

An interactive tool that allows students to choose 1 of 4 kinds of story maps and explain and organize their ideas about the elements of a story they are reading. Students can choose Character, Conflict, Resolution, Setting maps.