Put These Notes into Practice
Reading the notes is a great start. Now practise with unlimited AI-generated questions and get instant feedback. 100,000+ students are already improving their grades.
Literature in English (0475)
6 sections available · 67 chapters available
Free Literature in English (0475) study notes for Cambridge IGCSE students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Poetry from Songs of Ourselves Volume 1
Aphra Behn, ‘Song: Love Armed’
Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’
William Blake, ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’
Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’
Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Report to Wordsworth’
Gillian Clarke, ‘Lament’
Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’
Seamus Heaney, ‘Follower’
Liz Lochhead, ‘Storyteller’
Charles Mungoshi, ‘Before the Sun’
Katherine Philips, ‘A Married State’
Alexander Pope, From ‘An Essay on Man’
Carol Rumens, ‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’
William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 18’
Judith Wright, ‘Hunting Snake’
Poetry from Songs of Ourselves Volume 2
Nancy Fotheringham Cato, ‘The Road’
Sarah Jackson, ‘The Instant of My Death’
Arun Kolatkar, ¡¥The Bus¡¦
Julius Chingono, ‘At the Bus Station’
Imtiaz Dharker, ‘These are the Times We Live in’
Elizabeth Jennings, ‘The Enemies’
Sampurna Chattarji, ‘Boxes’
W H Auden, ‘The Capital’
Arthur Yap, ‘an afternoon nap’
Elizabeth Smither, ‘Plaits’
Elizabeth Daryush, ‘Children of Wealth’
Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner’
Musaemura Zimunya, ‘A Long Journey’
Stevie Smith, ‘Touch and Go’
George Szirtes, ‘Song’
Poems in Kumukanda, by Kayo Chingonyi (Chatto & Windus)
Prose
Prose from Stories of Ourselves Volume 2
no. 3 Christina Rossetti, ‘Nick’
no. 14 Olive Schreiner, ‘The Woman’s Rose’
no. 26 Ralph Ellison, ‘The Black Ball’
no. 30 Mulk Raj Anand, ‘The Gold Watch’
no. 35 Margaret Atwood, ‘When It Happens’
no. 37 J G Ballard, ‘The Man Who Walked on the Moon’
no. 38 Jamaica Kincaid, ‘A Walk to the Jetty’
no. 40 Jane Gardam, ‘Showing the Flag’
no. 47 Aminatta Forna, ‘Haywards Heath’
no. 49 Romesh Gunesekera, ‘Fluke’
Done reading? Test yourself with AI practice questions
Practice This Topic Now