Web Links

These exercises are designed to give you practice in finding useful information online. First read the prompt; then begin your search at Google. If you find yourself at a loss, click on the question and you'll be taken to a matching site.

Can you find out how to enter a Frank O'Connor-themed writing contest online? (http://members.aol.com/litpage/frankoconnor.html)

Can you find an online definition of the term character? (complete_glossary.html)

Can you find an online definition of the term setting? (complete_glossary.html)

Can you find a bulletin board where Bobbie Ann Mason discusses her work? (http://www.ket.org/signaturelive/bammsgs.htm)

Can you find an online definition of the term point of view? (complete_glossary.html)

Can you find William Faulkner-related sites in Oxford, Mississippi using the internet? (http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/wftown.html)

Can you find online definitions of the terms language and style? (glossary_main.htm)

Can you find James Joyce's "Araby" in etext? (http://www.bibliomania.com/Fiction/joyce/dublin/dublin3.html)

Can you find an online definition of the term theme? (complete_glossary.html)

Can you find out how to join a discussion group devoted to Eudora Welty? (http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwewn/)

Can you find online definitions of the terms irony and symbol? (complete_glossary.html)

Can you find how many times Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" has been made into a film? (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Poe,+Edgar+Allan)