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📚 Literature in English
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Drama: types and forms
tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, farce and melodrama · features of each
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Dramatic techniques
dialogue, soliloquy, aside, dramatic irony, chorus, flashback
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Prose forms
novel, novella, short story, fable, autobiography · features of each
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Narrative techniques
point of view, narrator types, plot structure, suspense and foreshadowing
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Poetry: types and forms
sonnet, ode, elegy, ballad, lyric, epic, free verse
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Poetic devices
imagery, rhyme scheme, rhythm and metre, alliteration, assonance, enjambment
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Figures of speech in literature
metaphor, simile, personification, apostrophe, oxymoron, paradox, irony
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General literary terms
theme, tone, mood, setting, characterisation, conflict, satire
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Literary appreciation: unseen prose
interpret a short prose extract · identify devices, tone and meaning
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Literary appreciation: unseen poetry
interpret a short poem extract · identify devices, tone and meaning
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African prose
themes common in African novels (colonialism, tradition, change, corruption)
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Non-African prose
themes and techniques in classic novels and short stories
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African drama
themes and techniques in African plays · use of folklore and ritual
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Non-African drama including Shakespeare
tragic hero, plot conventions, dramatic structure
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African poetry
themes of identity, culture, protest and nature
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Non-African poetry
themes and techniques in English and world poetry
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Characterisation
round and flat characters · protagonist, antagonist, foil
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Setting, theme and plot
exposition, rising action, climax, resolution · relationship of setting to theme
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