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Literature: Literary Analysis Terms & Theory

For LIT200 and LIT232 students

Literary Analysis Dictionaries & Encylopedias

Literary Terms
Collection of literary terms by the Purdue OWL
Literary Theory
From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Reading Critically

A Short Guide to Close Reading for Literary Analysis
Guide to reading critically when performing literary analysis, by UW-Madison
Reading Fiction/Literature
Guidelines on reading and analyzing a piece of fiction