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17 topics in CIE IGCSE Literature in English
📚 17 with revision notes · practice any topic →- Understanding and analysing setting and atmosphere in literary textsPractice📚 Notes
- Drama: essay question on set drama text (character, theme, dramatic technique and structure across the whole text)Practice📚 Notes
- Introduction to Literature in EnglishPractice📚 Notes
- Analysis of structure and form in literary texts (including narrative structure, dramatic structure, poetic form)Practice📚 Notes
- Analysis of character and motivation in literary textsPractice📚 Notes
- Understanding and evaluating writer's craft and narrative/dramatic/poetic techniquePractice📚 Notes
- Unseen drama extract: close reading and analysis of theatrical language, character and dramatic effectPractice📚 Notes
- Poetry: responding to unseen poems (close reading and analysis of language, form and structure)Practice📚 Notes
- Set poetry texts: critical essay on studied poem or poet (themes, language, imagery, form and structure)Practice📚 Notes
- Understanding context and its relationship to meaning in literary textsPractice📚 Notes
- Comparing literary texts or extracts (similarities and differences in theme, character, language and technique)Practice📚 Notes
- Personal response and interpretation: developing and justifying a supported personal response to literary textsPractice📚 Notes
- Analysis of theme and ideas across literary textsPractice📚 Notes
- Set prose texts: critical essay on studied prose work (character, theme, language and narrative technique)Practice📚 Notes
- Analysis of language, imagery and style in literary textsPractice📚 Notes
- Drama: passage-based question on set drama text (analysis of dialogue, stagecraft, character and context within the extract)Practice📚 Notes
- Prose: responding to unseen prose extract (close reading and analysis of language, narrative technique and character)Practice📚 Notes
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