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Monologues Online Literature Poetry
Quotations Writing Center

Grammar
Focusing on Words
Word activities, skill tests and reference materials, all exploring the Latin and Greek origins of modern English.
American Heritage Book of English Usage
Grammar Slammer - helps you with punctuation, capitalization and rules of grammar
The Grammar Lady - this is a very good site for quick answers to those irritating grammar problems
Guide to Grammar and Writing - word and sentence helps, paragraph aids and essay and research paper materials
Strunk's Elements of Style
Puzzlemaker - Create customized word searches as well as crossword and math puzzles.

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Dictionaries

Your Dictionary - offers more than 1800 dictionaries
American Heritage Dictionary - at Bartleby; this is especially useful for root words
The Merriam-Webster Online Language Center - use for root words
Rhyming Dictionary - from The Write Express Online; find a rhyme in no time
Roget's II - a wonderful thesaurus
Research-It - An online reference tool that contains a dictionary, thesaurus, quotation finder, foreign language dictionaries, maps, telephone numbers and various library, financial and mailing tools.

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Literary Criticism

Authors, Mining Company - comprehensive guide full of annotated information on author sites and Internet links. Can be searched by categories and is updated weekly
The Mississippi Writers' Page
Voices from the Gap - Women writers of color
Celebration of women's authors - scroll down to get information for women by author, title, and by country and century.
Internet Public Library - Literary Criticism Collection; excellent resource for literary criticism; arranged by author or literary period
Women Domestic Goddesses - profiles of American writers of the 19th century
The Victorian Web - information on authors during the Victorian era

Literary Resources on the Net - can be search by genre, time periods, or by entering a key word in search box
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Writing Center
Research Paper Topics - A varied selection of topics and suggestions for research papers
Internet Public Library - A+ Research and Writing ; provides a step-by-step approach to writing the term paper
Purdue's Online Writing Lab - step-by-step approach to term papers; excellent resources for writing
Citations - use this to properly cite online resources in your term papers and essays
Documentation Styles - citations for all formats including APA, MLA and Turabian from the University of Wisconsin - Madison Writing Center
WTHS MLA Style Sheet - located on your IMC Home Page


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Quotations

Bartlett's Quotes - online version of Bartlett's
Aphorism Galore - provides not only the aphorism, but its origin
Creative Quotations - quotations by famous persons that can be searched by author, subject, profession, month or day
Quoteland - thousands of quotes from sports and literary figures to topical quotes about love, marriage, friendship
The Samuel Johnson Sound Bite Page 
Dictionary of Scientific Quotations - quotes about science from scientists

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Mythology/Fairy Tales

Bullfinch's Mythology - stories of classical mythology
Fairy Tale Collection - from the University of Maryland
Aesop's Fables
Folklore and Mythology - electronic texts

The Camelot Project - Arthurian legends

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Monologues

Shakespeare's Monologues
Movie Monologues
Monologues for Kids and Teens
 

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Online Literature

Books Online
Columbia's Book Archive
Online Book Page - 7,000 public domain books, part of the English server of the University of Pennsylvania
Project Guttenberg - online e-texts
Perseus Project - classical literature - e-texts

Online Literature Project
Classical and Medieval Studies
University of Virginia Hypertext Collection - this site contains full text and original illustrations, sources, contemporary reviews and much more.
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Authors

Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - very comprehensive site on Shakespeare and his life and times
Shakespeare Online
The Children's Literature Web Guide - Author Information
American Authors on the Web - mainly biographical information
Literary Traveler - visit the haunts of your favorite authors

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Poetry

Poetry Finder on the Web - 550,000 indexed poems AND 40,000 full-text poems in one
American Verse Project - archives of American poetry prior to 1920
BartlebyVerse: - American & English Poetry, 1250-1920 - six online poetry anthologies
Electronic Poetry Center - University of Buffalo; authors are arranged alphabetically with each link containing poetry, biographies and criticism
Representative Poetry Online - scroll down for links to authors
Online Poetry - from classical to 20th century.
The Poets Read - contemporary poets reading their works
The Academy of American Poets - scroll down for index of poets
Patrick Martin's Poetry Resource - links to most major poets
Poetry Daily
Poets Pages - multimedia source for everything you want to know about American poets
The Atlantic Online - a compilation of brand-new poems as well as essays and interviews.
The Internet Poetry Archive - At this posting, this site features seven contemporary poets: Seamus Heaney, Yusef Komunyakaa, Phillip Levine, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Pinsky, Margaret Walker and Richard Wilbur.
Magic Island Poetry Database - More than 13,000 poems from around the world which range from Chinese to Portuguese and most of which are translated into English.

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