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Home  >  Teens  >  Study links  >  English

Response to texts

How to begin studying English literature

Nicholas Marsh

A practical guide to the study of novels, plays and poems. It includes sections on:

  • finding a theme 
  • looking at characters 
  • structure 
  • style and imagery 
  • irony 
  • writing an essay

This is part of a series, How to study literature.

 

Writing and presenting for senior students

Alan Cox, Linda Burgess and Sandra Mohekey

A guide to various texts and writing responses to them. Also how to write your own material.

 

Between the lines: a guide to reading and responding to poetry

Shirley Eng

Criteria with which to respond to poetry.

 

Dangerous landscapes: an anthology of New Zealand poetry

Compiled by Rangi Faith

Poetry about our land, our peoples, ourselves.

  
English.

Related Links:

Building Structures - a framework for constructing Response to Text answers.

The Language of Literary Analysis

Online Literary Criticism

New Zealand Literature File

New Zealand Book Council

Secondary literature texts 

Conflict in God's Own - this site focuses on Maori land claims using Potiki by Patricia Grace, The pohutukawa tree by Bruce Mason, and links to various sites.

Innocence Imagination Obsession: Heavenly Creatures - this site looks at the study of the film Heavenly creatures and the play Daughters of Heaven. It also looks at responding to controversial ideas - which is applicable to other texts.

The Crucible - this unit is designed to help you study the socio-historical contexts in which this play was written and set, and how it is read today.

BBC – Writing, Poetry & Books 

Glossary of Poetic Terms

New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre

Poetry Magic

James K. Baxter 

What makes a good short story?

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