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The web links provided below is a good resource for you when doing research for homework assignments or specific class topics. The links are organized by groups for easy reference. Simply click on the link title to go to the website.
Vocabulary
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Vocabulary Workshop-Level E
This website offers vocabulary sentences, synonym and antonym exercises for practice. Expanding on your vocabulary skills is important for many reasons. You will increase your SAT vocabulary score, improve your grades and impress your friends and teachers. -
A Word A Day
Are you searching for a way to increase your vocabulary? Check out the A Word a Day website.
E-Texts
Literary Terms
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Rhetorical Devices
This website provides a definition list of some literary terms which are essential to your analysis of any work. To understand literature, it is necessary that you ask yourself certain questions, such as “why does the author use apostrophe?” -
Tone Words
Tone is the author’s attitude towards the subject matter. Click here to see a list of tone words and their definitions.
SAT Preparation
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SAT Practice
This web site will help you prepare for the vocabulary section of the new SAT exam. The site is also useful to anyone who would like to improve his/her English vocabulary. There are over 3,000 multiple choice questions divided into 21 groups. There is also a database browser to review and print the questions and the correct answers.
College Search
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Naviance
You can research careers and colleges, write resumes, take interest and study skills inventories, research scholarships, and track college applications. The inventories can help determine your learning and/or personality types and identify potential careers that may be a good fit based on your interests. You can then use the program to narrow down your choices to a specific major and to a specific school. Based on data, you can identify schools as a reach, safety or likely acceptance school.
Grammar Help
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Excellent Grammar Site
Concise explanations of grammar rules are included. For example: A lot or Alot? A or An? Accept or Except? Acronyms and Initialisms? Active or Passive Verbs? Affect or Effect?
Dictionaries
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Dictionary of Classical Mythology
Refer to this website to research classical allusions in the literary works you are reading. In particular, this website will be useful when interpreting William Shakespeare's plays. -
Symbolism Dictionary
Look up a symbol and find its meaning. "This symbolism dictionary endeavors to provide the possible cultural significance of various symbols, and suggest ways in which those symbols may have been used in context." Constructed by Allison Protas, augmented and refined in 1997 by Geoff Brown and Jamie Smith.
Research Tools
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Academy of American Poets
Refer to this website to read a biography of a poet or to locate a particular poem. -
Internet Public Library: Literary Criticism
The Internet Public Library is a wonderful resource. Its literary criticism section is very thorough and can help to interpret various texts. -
Librarians' Internet Index
Internet sources can be very timely and very useful. However, evaluating internet sources can be particularly difficult because anyone can put up anything he or she wants to on the internet. This search engine features high quality, carefully selected websites that are all credible.