1302 Lecture Handouts
Introduction Why Study Literature

Ways to Improve Your Reading Process

Questions Surrounding the Interpretation of Literature

Asking Questions of Texts (Heuristic Device)
Research Techniques and Tools Scratch Outlines

Types and Levels of Thesis Statements

Quotation Examples

Quotation Examples 2 (Crusoe)

How to Write a Summary (outside website)

Summary Example

Steps in Paraphrasing

Paraphrase Examples

Brianstorming for an Original Argument

Responding to Counterarguments
Allegory Types of Allegory and Symbolism
Tragedy Batson's Definition

Gill's Model

Models of the Ancient Greek Theatre

The Attic Tragic Vision vs. the Christian Vision

Characteristics of Comedy and Tragedy
Comedy The Nature of Humor

Pictures and Drawings of The Globe Theatre

The Elizabethan Theatre Playhouse

Costumes & The Tempest

The Tempest: Plot and Themes
Poetry Poetry and the Christian Worldview (optional) -- This reworks our worldview reading in light of the subject of poetry.
 

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding