Language Arts
February 10, 2008
Guides to Literature Resources on the Internet
• Acronym and Abbreviations list
• Aesop's Fables Online collection
• Alta Vista Translation Service for translation of web pages in other languages
• American Folkloreretellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States
• American Verse Project a searchable, browseable anthology of American poetry published before 1920. With simple, Boolean, and proximity searches
• bartleby.comunlimited access to books and information on the web
• Business Letters How to write various kinds of business correspondence
• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ability to browse alphabetically, search by headword, or search the full-text of the dictionary
• Children's Literature Web Guide a comprehensive Web guide to Internet resources relating to children's and young adult literature
• Classical Mythology Directory
• Columbia Guide to Online Style
• Complete Works of William Shakespeare
• Edgar Allan Poe - Collected Works
• Encyclopedia Mythica gods, goddesses, mythology, demonology, and folklore
• Ethnologue: Languages of the World a catalog of the world's languages browseable by country name, language family, and language name
• Internet Shakespeare Editionsscholarly, fully annotated texts of Shakespeare's plays
• Language Sites on the Internet includes links to anagrams, oxymorons, palindromes, puns, idioms, banished words and expressions, city-by-city slanguage, mondegreens, logophilia, heteronyms, chiasmus, and much more
• Literary Resources on the Net created to highlight scholarly resources useful to academics in English and American Literature
• Literature Resources devoted primarily to English and American literature and includes both scholarly and less-academic sites
• Moonlit Road Ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South, told by the region's most celebrated storytellers
• On-line Resources for Documenting Electronic Sources handouts and exercises on different aspects of research and the writing of research papers
• Project Bartleby Columbia University's page that has searchable full text literature and poetry
• Research and Writing for high school and college students
• Spanish Proverbs and Sayings with their English Equivalents
• Speech Accent Archive examines the accented speech of speakers from many different language backgrounds reading the same sample paragraph
• Speeches - Graduation Speeches and More from about.com
• Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
• World Wide Words this site focuses on the history of the English language and the development of new words
• Yamada Language Center Internet resources for approximately 115 languages with an archive that includes fonts for many of the languages
