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Literature in English (9695)
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Free Literature in English (9695) study notes for Cambridge International A Level students. Each chapter breaks down a key concept with examples and practice prompts you can turn into AI drills in the thinka app.
Paper 1 Drama and Poetry
Section A Drama
Section B Poetry
Paper 1 Drama (2027 & 2028)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee
The Rover, Aphra Behn
Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams
The Tempest, William Shakespeare
Paper 2 Prose and Unseen
Prose
Paper 3 Shakespeare and Drama
Section A Shakespeare
Section B Drama
Paper 1 Poetry (2027 & 2028)
Selected Poems from England's Green, Zaffar Kunial
Selected Poems from Ariel (1965), Sylvia Plath
Selected Poems from Selected Poems, Christina Rossetti
Songs of Ourselves, Volume 2: Selected Poems
Paper 4 Pre- and Post-1900 Poetry and Prose
Section A Pre-1900 Poetry and Prose
Section B Post-1900 Poetry and Prose
Paper 2 Prose (2027 & 2028)
Stories of Ourselves, Volume 3: Selected Stories
The Yield, Tara June Winch
A Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh (2027)
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (2027)
Graceland, Chris Abani (2028)
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (2028)
Paper 2 Unseen
Unseen poetry
Unseen prose
Unseen drama
Unseen response: language, form and structure
Paper 3 Shakespeare (2027 & 2028)
Henry IV, Part 1, William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare (2027)
The Winter's Tale, William Shakespeare (2028)
Paper 3 Drama (2027 & 2028)
Our Country's Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker
Sweat, Lynn Nottage (2027)
Kongi's Harvest, Wole Soyinka (2027)
Dunsinane, David Grieg (2028)
August: Osage County, Tracy Letts (2028)
Paper 4 Pre-1900 Poetry and Prose (2027 & 2028)
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
Selected Poems from Selected Poetry, George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Geoffrey Chaucer
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Selected Sonnets, William Shakespeare
Middlemarch, George Eliot (2027)
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (2028)
Paper 4 Post-1900 Poetry and Prose (2027 & 2028)
Selected Poems from Poems, Elizabeth Bishop
Waiting for the Barbarians, J M Coetzee
Selected Stories from Selected Stories, Katherine Mansfield
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Selected Poems from Night Sky with Exit Wounds, Ocean Vuong
Selected Poems from Collected Poems (2016), Gabriel Okara (2027)
Selected Poems from Collected Poems, Chinua Achebe (2028)
Skills: Essay & passage-based response
Passage-based (b) question: analysing a printed extract
Whole-text (a) question: building an essay argument
Writers' choices of language, form and structure (AO2)
Informed personal response (AO3)
Relevant contexts and how they illuminate a text (AO1)
Discussing and evaluating differing interpretations (AO5)
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