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English Literature (XET01)
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Free English Literature (XET01) revision notes for Pearson Edexcel International AS Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Unit 1 Section A: Post-2000 Poetry — Poems of the Decade
Eat Me, Patience Agbabi
Chainsaw Versus the Pampas Grass, Simon Armitage
Material, Ros Barber
History, John Burnside
An Easy Passage, Julia Copus
The Deliverer, Tishani Doshi
The Map Woman, Carol Ann Duffy
The Lammas Hireling, Ian Duhig
To My Nine-Year-Old Self, Helen Dunmore
A Minor Role, U A Fanthorpe
The Gun, Vicki Feaver
The Furthest Distances I’ve Travelled, Leontia Flynn
Giuseppe, Roderick Ford
Out of the Bag, Seamus Heaney
Effects, Alan Jenkins
Genetics, Sinéad Morrissey
From the Journal of a Disappointed Man, Andrew Motion
Look We Have Coming to Dover, Daljit Nagra
Please Hold, Ciaran O’Driscoll
On Her Blindness, Adam Thorpe
Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn, Tim Turnbull
Unit 1 Section B: Post-2000 Prose
Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Unit 2 Section A: Pre-1900 Drama
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe
Othello, William Shakespeare
The Rover, Aphra Behn
She Stoops to Conquer, Oliver Goldsmith
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
Unit 2 Section B: Post-1900 Drama
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Top Girls, Caryl Churchill
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Skills: Essay & close reading
Comparative essay: connecting two poems (Unit 1 Section A)
Close reading of poetry: form, structure, language, voice
Close reading of prose: narrative, characterisation, setting
Close reading of drama: dramatic form and stagecraft
Responding to a statement-led essay question
Open-book practice: selecting and integrating quotation
Writing about context (AO3)
Writing about different interpretations (AO5)
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