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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature

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1,090 lessons 7h runtime 21 units 1,049 links between lessons Test yourself · 21 quizzes, a mid exam, and a final
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Unit 1: How This Exam Asks: The Seven Question Types 40 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 21:21 Part 2 · 21:16
Unit 2: Reading Archaic and Inverted Syntax 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 25:07 Part 2 · 24:43
Unit 3: Word in Context 40 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 22:09 Part 2 · 21:50
Unit 4: Tone, and the Tone Lexicon 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 24:55 Part 2 · 25:15
Unit 5: Speaker, Voice and Persona 40 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 21:59 Part 2 · 22:17
Unit 6: Poetry: Sound, Line, Meter 60 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 30:28 Part 2 · 29:07
Unit 7: Poetry: Figurative Language 60 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 30:27 Part 2 · 29:25
Unit 8: Poetry: Closed and Open Form 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 25:26 Part 2 · 25:12
Unit 9: Poetry: Structure and Argument 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 25:41 Part 2 · 25:41
Unit 10: Prose: Narration and Point of View 60 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 29:35 Part 2 · 28:33
Unit 11: Prose: Character, Scene, Style 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 25:10 Part 2 · 24:51
Unit 12: Nonfiction: Rhetoric and the Essay 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 25:22 Part 2 · 25:11
Unit 13: Drama: Structure and Dramatic Irony 60 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 29:51 Part 2 · 29:38
Unit 14: Drama: Soliloquy, Aside, Stagecraft 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 24:39 Part 2 · 24:47
Unit 15: Shakespeare as an Exam Problem 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 24:47 Part 2 · 24:19
Unit 16: Classical and Pre-Renaissance Orientation 40 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 21:33 Part 2 · 20:10
Unit 17: Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Orientation 60 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 28:35 Part 2 · 28:12
Unit 18: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 70 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 31:50 Part 2 · 31:25
Unit 19: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 70 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 32:30 Part 2 · 32:12
Unit 20: British, Postcolonial, and Works in Translation 50 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 24:37 Part 2 · 24:15
Unit 21: Capstone: Running the Procedure Cold 40 lessons, 2 lecture parts
Lecture: Part 1 · 20:29 Part 2 · 20:13

Who this subject is for

  • Students preparing for the CLEP Analyzing and Interpreting Literature exam
  • English and humanities students
  • Education majors
  • Adult learners finishing a degree
  • Homeschool students
  • Anyone who wants to read poetry, drama and fiction more closely

Why Analyzing and Interpreting Literature matters

Close reading is a skill every humanities course assumes you already have. It prepares you for:

  • Literature courses of any period
  • Composition and argument
  • Literary criticism
  • Teaching reading and writing

Time to complete

of lessons (1,090, measured)
7 h
of lectures (42)
18.1 h
learning hours on the certificate, with quizzes and the final
33 h

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