- AskOxford.com
"We have built a database of some of the questions sent in to the Oxford Word and Language Service team, so it is likely that if your question is a fairly broad one on grammar, usage, or words then it will be answered here."
- BBC: Learning English
"The site is intended to help you improve your learning of the English language. Throughout the site you will find short courses, quizzes, grammar, vocabulary, audio and video that will help you to improve your English."
- Dictonary of Symbolism
A useful approach to discovering what particular symbols may mean.
- Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature, Volume 1
Encyclopedia of Catholic Literature, Volume 2
From Greenwood eBooks. (SCCHS students see librarian for password.)
- A Glossary of Literary Terms
Find the term you need here.
- Glossary of Poetic Terms
Definitions and phonetic pronunciations are located at this site.
- Literature Awards
Links to the sites of many literary awards.
- Lost Titles, Forgotten Rhymes
"This guide is intended to help readers identify a literary work when they know only its plot or subject, or other textual information such as a character's name, a line of poetry, or a unique word or phrase." From the Library of Congress.
- Omniglot.com
"Details of most alphabets and other writing systems currently in use, as well as quite a few ancient and invented ones ... information about some of the languages written with those writing systems ... and a ever-growing collection of links to language-related resources."
- Words in English
"This website is a resource for those who want to learn more about this fascinating language – its history as a language, the origins of its words, and its current modern characteristics."
- World Wide Web Words: Other Sites of Interest
Links to (English) dialect sites, linguistics and phonetics sites, dictionaries, and other sites about words, English, and grammar.
this page last updated December 22, 2008