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English Literature 8702
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Free English Literature 8702 revision notes for AQA GCSE students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Shakespeare
Macbeth
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
The Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
The 19th-century novel
Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations (1867)
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein (1831)
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four
Drama
JB Priestley - An Inspector Calls
Willy Russell - Blood Brothers (musical version)
Dennis Kelly - DNA
Shelagh Delaney - A Taste of Honey
Chinonyerem Odimba - Princess & The Hustler
Winsome Pinnock - Leave Taking
Prose
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
AQA Anthology - Telling Tales
George Orwell - Animal Farm
Meera Syal - Anita and Me
Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English
Kit de Waal - My Name is Leon
Poetry
Love and Relationships
Power and Conflict
Worlds and Lives
Poetry: Love and Relationships
When We Two Parted — Lord Byron
Love's Philosophy — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Porphyria's Lover — Robert Browning
Sonnet 29 — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Neutral Tones — Thomas Hardy
The Farmer's Bride — Charlotte Mew
Walking Away — Cecil Day-Lewis
Eden Rock — Charles Causley
Follower — Seamus Heaney
Mother Any Distance — Simon Armitage
Before You Were Mine — Carol Ann Duffy
Winter Swans — Owen Sheers
Singh Song! — Daljit Nagra
Climbing My Grandfather — Andrew Waterhouse
Letters from Yorkshire — Maura Dooley
Poetry: Power and Conflict
Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley
London — William Blake
Extract from, The Prelude — William Wordsworth
My Last Duchess — Robert Browning
The Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Exposure — Wilfred Owen
Storm on the Island — Seamus Heaney
Bayonet Charge — Ted Hughes
Remains — Simon Armitage
Poppies — Jane Weir
War Photographer — Carol Ann Duffy
Tissue — Imtiaz Dharker
The Emigree — Carol Rumens
Checking Out Me History — John Agard
Kamikaze — Beatrice Garland
Poetry: Worlds and Lives
Lines Written in Early Spring — William Wordsworth
England in 1819 — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Shall earth no more inspire thee — Emily Brontë
In a London Drawingroom — George Eliot
On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria, 1955 — James Berry
Name Journeys — Raman Mundair
pot — shamshad khan
A Wider View — Seni Seneviratne
Homing — Liz Berry
A Century Later — Imtiaz Dharker
The Jewellery Maker — Louisa Adjoa Parker
With Birds You're Never Lonely — Raymond Antrobus
A Portable Paradise — Roger Robinson
Like an Heiress — Grace Nichols
Thirteen — Caleb Femi
Unseen poetry
Unseen poetry
Analysing an unseen poem
Comparing two unseen poems
Skills: Set-text essays
Writing about character
Writing about theme
Writing about context
Analysing the writer's methods
Using quotations and SPaG
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