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Literature in English (9539)
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Free Literature in English (9539) study notes for GCE A-Level - Higher 2 (H2) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Unseen
Unseen poetry: comparing two poems (Paper 1 Section A)
Unseen prose passage (Papers 2 and 3 Section A)
Unseen drama passage (Papers 2 and 3 Section A)
Singaporean poetry in the unseen paper
Prose
Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens: Hard Times
Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists
Drama
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley: The Changeling
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
William Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale
Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars
Pre-20th Century Writing
William Shakespeare: King Lear
Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People (translated by James McFarlane)
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Emily Dickinson: selection of poems
John Donne: selection of poems
THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC PERIOD (1785–1832)
John Keats: selection of poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley: selection of poems
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: selection of poems
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Grain of Wheat
Chinua Achebe: Anthills of the Savannah
Rohinton Mistry: Family Matters
David Malouf: Remembering Babylon
Edwin Thumboo: selection of poems
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
Skills: Essay & passage-based response
Passage-based response on a set text
Essay response on a set text
Comparing two set texts (Papers 2 and 3 Section B)
Form, structure and language analysis
Text and context in literary argument
Quotation, critical terminology and essay structure
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