Literature

Description:

This course presents a background to the study of world literature featuring the use of short story, essay, and narrative and descriptive poetry. Each reading selection includes author biographical information and questions to encourage thoughtful interaction and Christian character development. The textbook introduces the meaning and use of such literary terms and forms as: character development, narrative poetry, plot, imagery and figurative language, theme, rhyme and rhythm, emotion, poetry patterns and forms, paradox, and setting. The course features classic literary works by such authors as Dickens, Browning, Frost, Holmes, Tennyson, Poe, Doyle, Keats, and Cummings.

Description:

This course presents a background to the study of world literature featuring the use of short story, essay, and narrative and descriptive poetry. Each reading selection includes author biographical information and questions to encourage thoughtful interaction and Christian character development. The textbook introduces the meaning and use of such literary terms and forms as: character development, narrative poetry, plot, imagery and figurative language, theme, rhyme and rhythm, emotion, poetry patterns and forms, paradox, and setting. The course features classic literary works by such authors as Dickens, Browning, Frost, Holmes, Tennyson, Poe, Doyle, Keats, and Cummings.

Description:

This course provides a chronological study of classic American literature from the early 1600s to the twentieth century. Detailed historical sections, timelines, and author biographies provide background information on the people, forces, and philosophies that shaped the various literary styles and periods. Featured authors include William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Irving, Longfellow, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson, Clemens, Crosby, Frost, Sandburg, and Hemingway.

Description:

This course provides a chronological study of classic American literature from the early 1600s to the twentieth century. Detailed historical sections, timelines, and author biographies provide background information on the people, forces, and philosophies that shaped the various literary styles and periods. Featured authors include William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Irving, Longfellow, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson, Clemens, Crosby, Frost, Sandburg, and Hemingway.

Description:

This course provides a chronological study of classic English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century. Selections in the textbook include such diverse forms as poems and hymns, short stories, essays, and excerpts from novels and plays. Authors featured in the textbook include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wesley, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Dickens, Shaw, and Orwell. Background material, brief author biographies, and histories of each time period are provided, along with a glossary of literary terms.