Jim Roth's Website

Literature Resources

 

World Lit 272 Start Page

 

Fiction Terms and Definitions--pdf

 

Schools of Literature

 

Five Steps to Understanding a Poem

 

Scansion (or rhythm) and Rhyme in Poetry

 

A Primer on Poetic Feet

 

Sonnets Made Easy--new form with video

 

Sonnets Made Easy

 

Petrarchan and Shakespearean Sonnets

 

The Great Sonnet Writing Challenge

 

Who’s Who in Hamlet

 

Who’s Who in Othello

 

Who's Who in Tartuffe

 

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

A Primer on Poetic Feet

Sonnets Made Easy

 

 

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 FireLinks to an external site. by Jack London

The Law of Life (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. by Jack London

The Cask of AmontilladoLinks to an external site. by Edgar Allen Poe

The Minister's Black Veil  Links to an external site.Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Chrysanthemums  Links to an external site.by John Steinbeck

Walker Brothers CowboyLinks to an external site. by Alice Munro

The Open BoatLinks to an external site. by Stephen Crane

The Death of Ivan Ilych (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. by Leo Tolstoy