The Literature Student's Survival Kit: What Every Reader Needs to Know

Acknowledgments.

1. Surviving the Bible.

Books of the Bible.

Historical Framework.

The Bible in English.

Dictionary.

2. Surviving the Classics.

Dictionary.

3. Surviving History.

Timelines.

Dictionary of Background Information.

The Roman Conquest to the Wars of the Roses.

The Tudors to the Commonwealth.

The Restoration to the American Revoluation.

The Romantics and the Nineteenth Century.

The Twentieth Century.

Fifty Dates.

English Monarchs.

4. Surviving the Academy.

Reading about Literature.

Literary Terms.

Poetry: Poetic Forms, Rhyme, Meter.

Roman Numerals.

The Critical Background.

Writing about Literature.

Survival-level Punctuation.

A Survivor's Guide to Grammatical Terms.

A Survivor’s Guide to Fifty Common Errors.

A Survivor’s Guide to Writing Essays.

Exams.

Index