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Here is a great site for looking up authors or specific works of literature.
Study Guides & Literature Essays | Guides & Notes for Books, Movies, Poetry & Plays | GradeSaver
It has...
Brief biographies of authors.
Brief summaries of specific works. (you can learn what the plot of many works are without having to spend a lot of time reading actual works)
Summary AND analysis of chapters (this is great for learning to analyze)
Quizzes on specific works (the 1st one is free, but you need a membership to access the other quizzes).
Theme of the work
And other stuff I haven't looked into
This has been my main resource as I study for American Literature and Analyze & Interpret Literature. I'm taking these two tests over the next two days. I was going to wait and see how these tests go before I suggested this site, but I've found this site so helpful that I thought I should share it.
When I looked up the sample questions on CLEP's site I got %100 right (all right, 1 was a guess).
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I'm not saying that site doesn't have good content, but my red-flag-meter is raised a bit over there. I'm pretty sure the purpose of the site is to buy and sell essays for the purpose of plagiarism.
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I agree it kind of looks like that, but the other parts of it for the lit study look great!
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Great sites for literature study -
SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular Study Guides
Shmoop: Homework Help, Teacher Resources, Test Prep
The Complete Idiots Guide to American Literature is an excellent book to use to prepare for the American Literature CLEP test.
The Norton's Anthology of American Literature is another good resourse for more in depth study.
Good site for literary terms -
Literary Terms and Definitions
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cookderosa Wrote:I'm not saying that site doesn't have good content, but my red-flag-meter is raised a bit over there. I'm pretty sure the purpose of the site is to buy and sell essays for the purpose of plagiarism.
You might be right about that. I haven't liked the sound of the 'buy your essays' stuff. I just use the free summaries, biographies, and such.
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SuZQ2 Wrote:The Complete Idiots Guide to American Literature is an excellent book to use to prepare for the American Literature CLEP test.
The Norton's Anthology of American Literature is another good resourse for more in depth study.
I tried to find the Idiot's Guide but couldn't get it for free. Before I bought the guide a family member stumbled onto gradesaver's site. So far I've only payed for 2 books ($70 total), IC, and my library card ($80 a year). Sooo, I didn't get the Idiot's Guide.
I did get Norton's anthology from the library; just to find out it's a 4 volume collection!
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Oh, by the way; I did pass the test today.
Score: 62
I'll do a post on the feedback forum next week.
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