Jim Roth's Website
Literature Resources
Fiction Terms and Definitions--pdf
Five Steps to Understanding a Poem
Scansion (or rhythm) and Rhyme in Poetry
Sonnets Made Easy--new form with video
Petrarchan and Shakespearean Sonnets
The Great Sonnet Writing Challenge
POETRY--From English 272
Document--Five Easy Steps to Reading and Understanding a Poem
Video--Five Easy Steps to Reading and Understanding a Poem
Video--Five Easy Steps to Reading and Understanding a Poem--Wordsworth-"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Document--Scansion, Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry
Video--Scansion, Rhythm and Rhyme in Poetry
Video--Structure in Poetry--"That Time of Year" Shakespearean (Elizabethan Sonnet)
Video--Structure in Poetry--"The Cross of Snow" Longfellow (Italian) Sonnet
Videos
Five Easy Steps to Reading and Understanding a Poem
Scansion, Rhythm, and Rhyme in Poetry
Five Easy Steps--Wordworth's "Daffodils"
Short Stories
To Build a Fire by Jack London
The Law of Life by Jack London
The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe
The Minister's Black Veil Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Chrysanthemums by John Steinbeck
Walker Brothers Cowboy by Alice Munro
The Open Boat by Stephen Crane
The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy