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Literature in English (2065)
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Free Literature in English (2065) study notes for GCE O-Level students. Each chapter covers a key topic with examples and practice prompts you can continue inside the thinka app.
PRESCRIBED TEXTS - Prose
Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (ed.): How We Live Now
Anthony Doerr: All the Light We Cannot See
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
Mildred D Taylor: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
John Wyndham: The Chrysalids
PRESCRIBED TEXTS - Drama
Athol Fugard: "Master Harold"...and the boys
Peter Shaffer: The Royal Hunt of the Sun
William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
Jean Tay: Everything but the Brain
Unseen poetry
Reading an unseen poem: subject, situation and speaker
Tone, mood and attitude
Imagery and figurative language
Diction and word choice
Sound, rhythm and rhyme
Form, line and stanza structure
Shaping a personal response to an unseen poem
Skills: Passage-based response
Passage-based response: reading the extract closely
Passage-based response: language, form and structure in the extract
Passage-based response: placing the extract in the whole text
Passage-based response: quoting and commenting on effects
Skills: Essay response
Essay response: answering the terms of the question
Essay response: building an argument across the whole text
Essay response: selecting and integrating textual evidence
Essay response: writing about character, theme and setting
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