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English Language and Literature (EMC) - H474
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Free English Language and Literature (EMC) - H474 revision notes for Cambridge OCR A Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Poetry: stylistic analysis
Component 01: Exploring non-fiction and spoken texts
The OCR (EMC) non-fiction and spoken texts anthology
Unseen non-fiction analysis
Spoken language and spontaneous talk analysis
Comparing texts: mode, audience and purpose
Contexts of production and reception
Plays: dramatic and stylistic analysis
Reading as a writer
Language levels and stylistics toolkit
Phonetics, phonology and prosodics
Lexis and semantics
Grammar and morphology
Pragmatics and discourse
Foregrounding: repetition, pattern-making, pattern-breaking and deviation
Terminology and integrated linguistic-literary method
Exploring non-fiction and spoken texts
Component 02 Section A — Poetry: stylistic analysis (set texts)
William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Emily Dickinson: The Complete Poems
Malika Booker: Pepper Seed
Fatimah Asghar: If They Come For Us
Carol Ann Duffy: Rapture
Jacob Sam-La Rose: Breaking Silence
Component 02 Section B — Plays: dramatic and stylistic analysis (set texts)
Shakespeare: Othello
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
Inua Ellam: Barber Shop Chronicles
Nina Raine: Tribes
Jez Butterworth: Jerusalem
Dramatic techniques: staging, paralinguistics, soliloquy and dramatic irony
Component 03 Section A — Reading as a writer (set texts)
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
F Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake
Aspects of narrative: voice, time and moments of crisis
Component 03 Section B — Writing as a reader
Developing a narrative opening from a story outline
Narrative craft: openings, viewpoint and characterisation
Writing the 250-word commentary on your own choices
Component 04 — Independent study: analysing and producing texts (NEA)
NEA set non-fiction list, examination until 2027
NEA set non-fiction list, examination from 2028
Analytical and comparative writing (Task 1)
Original non-fiction writing and introduction (Task 2)
Choosing texts and tasks: post-2000 and free-choice rules
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