Read and explicate stories, poems, and scenes from plays through a series of interactive questions that guide you in the study of the literary elements. Select a Literary Element to view its Interactive Reading and Questions for Thinking and Writing.
Three Interactive Readings are available to view in this demo:
| Element | Author | Work |
| Character | Katherine Mansfield | Miss Brill |
| Charactier Analysis | Flannery O'Connor | A Good Man is Hard to Find |
| Critical Analysis | William Shakespeare | Othello, Act V, Scene II |
| Figures of Speech | Sylvia Plath | Metaphors |
| Form | Walt Whitman | Calvary Crossing a Ford |
| Imagery | Theodore Roethke | Root Cellar |
| Imagery | William Shakespeare | Sonnet 73 |
| Point of View | James Joyce | Araby |
| Reading Poetry | Robert Frost | Out, Out— |
| Reading Stories | John Updike | A & P |
| Rhythm | Gwendolyn Brooks | We Real Cool |
| Setting | Kate Chopin | The Storm |
| Sound | William Butler Yeats | Who Goes with Fergus? |
| Symbol | Wallace Stevens | Anecdote of the Jar |
| Theme | Zora Neale Hurston | Sweat |
| Tone and Style | Guy de Maupassant | The Necklace |
| Voice | Wilfred Owen | Dulce et Decorum Est |
| Word Choice | Lewis Carroll | Jabberwocky |
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