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English Language and Literature (8EL0)
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Free English Language and Literature (8EL0) study notes for Pearson Edexcel AS Level students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Theme: Society and the Individual
Component 1: Voices in Speech and Writing
Voices in Speech and Writing: An Anthology
Section A: Creation of Voice (text transformation)
Section B: Comparing Voices (unseen 20th/21st-century extract vs anthology text)
Component 2 — Theme: Society and the Individual
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
Othello, William Shakespeare
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer
The Whitsun Weddings, Philip Larkin
Theme: Love and Loss
Theme: Encounters
Component 2 — Theme: Love and Loss
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood
Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Enduring Love, Ian McEwan
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Betrayal, Harold Pinter
Metaphysical Poetry, editor Colin Burrow
Sylvia Plath Selected Poems, Sylvia Plath
Theme: Crossing Boundaries
Component 2 — Theme: Encounters
A Room with a View, E M Forster
Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter
Hamlet, William Shakespeare
Rock 'N' Roll, Tom Stoppard
The Waste Land and Other Poems, T S Eliot
The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry, editor Jonathan Wordsworth
Component 2 — Theme: Crossing Boundaries
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri
Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
Oleanna, David Mamet
Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, Christina Rossetti
North, Seamus Heaney
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