The document outlines the research process as consisting of planning, exploring, and evaluating sources. It describes how to write about literature in college by discussing key components such as plot, characters, and setting, while also listing essential literary vocabulary terms. Additionally, it includes a directive to name and define various approaches to interpreting literature.

1. Note: The research process involves three stages: planning,
exploring, and evaluating sources. When you write about
literature in college whether the work is fiction, drama, or
poetry, you will discuss the plot, characters, and setting.
Write the
literary vocabulary terms in a Microsoft word document.
1.
genre
2. fiction, dramatic soliloquy
3. characters, protagonist, theme, descriptive language
4. narrator, persona, omniscient narrator
5. plot, exposition, climax, falling action, turning point,
denouement
6. setting, symbol, theme
7. name and define each of these approaches to interpreting
literature (literary theory, reader-response theory, gender-based
literary theories, critical race theory, class-based literary
theory, text-based theory, context-based literary theory, and
psychoanalytic theories)