The Short Story
Thomas Klise
In a good short story, every element in its artistic composition — plot, character, theme, narrative manner, and setting — should contribute to the...
View full detailsIn a good short story, every element in its artistic composition — plot, character, theme, narrative manner, and setting — should contribute to the...
View full detailsThe dictionary is an invaluable resource for every speaker of the English language. By learning to use the dictionary, students gain a firm knowled...
View full detailsThis magnificent five-part series offers a look at the history of English literature from the 1600s to the 20th century. Through colorful photograp...
View full detailsThis program defines the important literary devices of simile, metaphor, paradox, symbolism, alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia. It also off...
View full detailsThis two-part set is targeted for any student that needs help writing a straight, clean, intelligent paragraph. Sharply rendered with appealing car...
View full detailsMany students feel an initial resistance to poetry that can be difficult to overcome. This unit debunks some popular modern myths about poetry’s “h...
View full detailsNick Adams was the hero of Hemingway’s first work and the prototype of such later Hemingway heroes as Jake Barnes, Frederic Henry, and Harry Morgan...
View full detailsThis program provides a touching portrait of Franz Kafka, whose influence on Western literature grows more intense with the passage of time. It off...
View full detailsThere exist many and excellent reasons for calling William Faulkner the greatest American novelist of the 20th century. He approached his material ...
View full detailsIs a clause independent, or is it subordinate? How do subordinate clauses work in a sentence? How can we identify adjective clauses, adverb clauses...
View full detailsThis spirited program seeks to instill in students a love of language and a curiosity about the etymology of words they encounter. It examines the ...
View full detailsSince the meaning of a poem is often not clear upon first perusal, readers must find clues to discover who is speaking, what is happening, and what...
View full detailsSince the dawn of literature, no writer has matched the combination of dramatic genius and popular appeal that we find in William Shakespeare. This...
View full detailsTo many, Robert Frost might come across as a lyricist of nature, a 20th century James Russell Lowell. His stubborn traditional form, however, often...
View full detailsThis popular and highly effective series offers a clear explanation of the writing process as an exercise in logical and ordered communication. The...
View full detailsThe novels of John Steinbeck form an epic to the American loser, and the saga of Steinbeck’s losers is a chronicle of exile and hardship. Out of th...
View full detailsThis four-part series uses colorful and captivating artwork to introduce students to the important subject of mythology. The program includes the f...
View full detailsIn the long story that is English literature there is no one quite like Charles Dickens, and his appeal to readers remains as strong today as it wa...
View full detailsWalt Whitman was the first American to take the common experience of man as the very source of high poetry. His masterpiece Leaves of Grass is mor...
View full detailsTheater, as we know it, has existed for approximately 2,500 years. This superb production looks at the early Egyptian “passion plays,” the Dionysia...
View full detailsThis cartoon-style unit addresses that elusive element known as “style.” Rather than presenting a dry listing of “general principles,” the program ...
View full detailsFor too many students, learning the correct usage and placement of punctuation marks can seem an impossible chore. This popular six-part series tea...
View full detailsThis program provides a bright and thoughtful analysis of five of Shakespeare’s most important and influential plays: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo...
View full details“Show me a hero,” Scott Fitzgerald once said, “and I’ll write you a tragedy.” And while Fitzgerald’s life was as heroic as any he ever created for ...
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