Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Elements of Literature: Analyzing Setting [Pdf]

A resource for students in analyzing the point of view for a given piece of literature. Provides a short worksheet and important questions.

A brief organizer in which students can analyze a given selection's writing style. Includes sections on diction, figures of speech, images, and sentence structure.

A graphic organizer which allows students to document and list the figures of speech they identify in a given piece of literature. These include simile, metaphor, personification, and symbol, and require examples from the text.

Provides an overview of the importance of a narrator in a text and some brief exercises for analysis. Helps students learn more about the role of the narrator in literature, his/her voice, and influence on other characters and events.

A comprehensive mini-guide to Scott O'Dell's novel titled "Island of the Blue Dolphins." Contains detailed information about the biographical/historical context, background, chapter-by-chapter summaries, study questions, and post-reading...

A graphic organizer for students, laying out the basic outline of a story's plot and allowing students to fill in the necessary details.

This excellent resource presents a chapter-by-chapter analysis of Minfong Ho's "Clay Marble." Also provides analysis over the novel's background, context, author information, and study questions and aids.

Provides an excellent model of a novel analysis. Using Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome," this essay provides good commentary and style, as well as helpful notations and aids for student improvement and understanding. Requires Adobe Reader....

An excellent student model for tenth-graders of the comparison between a play and a film, this one for "A Streetcar Named Desire." Provides good writing style and structure, and also includes notations and helpful student aids for...

A short but informational worksheet for students on the rhythmical sounds of poetry. Includes information about the different types of meter and feet, and allows students to make connections and analysis.