Take Wing with Kay
  • Bulletin
  • Hamlet (circa 1600)
  • Heart of Darkness (1899)
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
  • Slaughterhouse Five (1969)
  • Jane Eyre (1847)
  • The Joy Luck Club (1989)
  • Color Me In (2019)
  • Kafka (1883-1924)
  • Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
  • As I Lay Dying (1930)
  • The Catcher in the Rye (1951)
  • 1984 (1949)
  • Victorian Literature (1837-1901)
  • The Awakening (1899)
  • Writing Mechanics
  • Maus (1980-1991)
  • The Iliad (Classical Antiquity)
  • The Divine Comedy (Dante, 1320)
  • Beowulf and The Canterbury Tales
  • Early 20th-century Literature
  • Late 20th-century Literature
  • Vocabulary Might
  • Kay Drama
  • Kay's Garden
  • Essay Lab
  • Ephemera
  • The Great Gatsby (1925)
  • Pygmalion (1913)
  • Cultural Capital
  • Circe (2019)
  • Lord of the Flies (1954)
  • Things Fall Apart (1958)
  • Brave New World (1931)
  • 20th-century Literature
  • Figures in Action
  • For the Sake of Levity
  • IB Year 1 English 3
  • Outliers (2008)
  • IB SL English 4
  • Othello (1603)
  • Romantic Poets
  • Metaphysical Poets

English Language and Literature


Homer to Medieval Lit. (World Lit.; OLD English and MIDdle English)

​The Iliad (Classical Antiquity)

​The Divine Comedy (Dante, 1320)

​Medieval Literature


Early Modern Literature 

​Hamlet (circa 1600)

​Othello (1603)

​Metaphysical Poets


Romanticism and Victorianism

​Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

​Victorian Literature (1837-1901)

​Heart of Darkness (1899)

​The Awakening (1899)

​The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)

​Romantic Poets

​Jane Eyre (1847)


Modernism and the Twentieth Century Literature 

​Pygmalion (1913)

​The Great Gatsby (1925)

​As I Lay Dying (1930)

​The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

​Brave New World (1931)

​1984 (1949)

​Slaughterhouse Five (1969)

​Lord of the Flies (1954)

​To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

​Maus (1980-1991)

​Kafka (1883-1924)

​Things Fall Apart (1958)

Chang-Rae Lee (1965-)

​Circe (2019)

 The Joy Luck Club (1989)

​ Color Me In (2019)


Literary Devices and Figures in Action

Figures

Apostrophe and Personification

 Allusion

 Synecdoche, not metonymy

 Diction

Imagery and Synesthesia

 Oxymoron and Antithesis

 Malapropism


Schemes

 Alliteration and End rhyme

Consonance, Assonance, Sibilance

 Unusual Syntax

 Juxtaposition

 Parallelism

 Anaphora and refrain


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Educational Links

PBS Learning Media: https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
TED ED: https://ed.ted.com/
Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org/
Lit2Go (free e-texts and audio clips of the canonical writings): https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
YouTube Crash Courses: ​https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q
CNN 10: https://www.cnn.com/cnn10
NPR (National Public Radio) Up First: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first

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