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Wordsmith

APA Citation Guide
A handy collection of citation references

Online Literary Criticism Collection (Internet Public Library)
Over 4,000 critical and biographical websites about authors and their works; can be browsed by author, title, nationality, or literary period

Salem Witch Museum
A resource for The Crucible, the museum site takes you back to 1692--the rapidly convened trials, scant evidence, and hasty executions.

SHAKESPEARE

READING

Anne Frank Online

AphorismsGalore
Giving a speech or writing a "big paper"? Need a short saying that expresses a humorous or philosophical idea?

Bibliomania

Chiasmus
Chiasmus is a rhetorical device that occurs when the word order is switched in two otherwise parallel phrases. A resource for lovers of words, language, and quotations, this site collects such items as "Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you," and, as a pundit once said in an implied chiastic, "Invention is the mother of necessity."

Children’s Literature Web Guide

Columbia Library

CMU Poetry Index [Carnegie Mellon University]

The Devil's Dictionary [Ambrose Bierce]

DeVry Online Writing Support Center

Dictionary of Symbolism

A Dramatic Education

Encyclopedia Mythica

English Literature and Composition Resources

The English Server

ERIC Clearinghouse for English, Reading, and Communication

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site

Great Books Homepage

Great Writers [homepages]

Grimms' Fairy Tales [original versions]

Heinemann-Boynton

[Henry VIII:  Wives]

International Reading Association

Internet Resources for Classics

Into the Wardrobe: The C. S. Lewis Site

Kairos [teaching writing]

The Labyrinth: Resources for Medieval Studies
Study aids for Beowulf, Arthur

Les Miserables

Literary Resources on the Net

Mark Twain

Medieval World

Midlink Magazine

Mitsuharu Matsuoka
Collection of links to literary works on the Web

Modern Language Association
Style guide

The Mystic Realm of King Arthur

National Council of Teachers of English

The National Theatre of Great Britain

On-Line Books

The Online Medieval and Classical Library

The Perseus Project

Planet English

Positively Poetry

Project Gutenberg

Pulitizer Prizes

[Refrigerator magnet] Poetry
Randomly assemble words right on your computer with a Java-based poetry kit.

Resources for American Literature [University of Texas]

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Sonnet Central

Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Teachers Helping Teachers: Language Arts

Texas Education Net

The Tolkien Society

Victorian Women Writers Project

Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research [University of California, Santa Barbara]
Extensive academic resources

The Western Canon

The Wacky World of Words
Similes, oxymorons, anagrams, words-within-words

William Faulkner on the Web

The Word Detective

Writer's Gallery

WriteSite [middle school language arts]