Unit 1 Introduction
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Section 1 Two Fables
Section 2 A Short Story
Section 3 Literature Is All Around Us
Unit 2 The Language of Literature
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Section 1 Comparing Things
Section 2 Some Other Figures of Speech and Literary Devices
Section 3 Word Choice
Section 4 Sentence Structure
Unit 3 Short Stories
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Section 1 Narrative and the Short Story
Section 2 Plot
Section 3 Setting
Section 4 Characterisation
Section 5 Point of View
Section 6 Time Structure, Dialogue, and Endings
Enrichment Reading
1 Ernest Hemingway: Hills Like White Elephants
2 Alan Maley: The Man Who Talked to Trees
3 James Joyce: Eveline
4 Robley Wilson : Thief
5 Sherwood Andeon: Paper Pills
Unit 4 Novels
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Section 1 Character Description
Section 2 Setting
Section 3 Dialogue
Section 4 Point of View
Section 5 Plot / Critical Incidents
Section 6 Openings and Closings
Enrichment Reading
1 Graham Greene : A Burnt-Out Case
2 Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea
3 Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge
4 Oscar Wilde : The Picture of Dorian Gray
5 Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
6 Charles Dicke : Great Expectatio
Unit 5 Non-Fiction
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Section 1 Speeches
Section 2 Essays
Enrichment Reading
1 Martin Luther King : I Have a Dream
2 Jawaharlal Nehru : Speech on the Granting of Indian
Independence, August 14, 1947
3 Sir Francis Bacon: Of Studies
Unit 6 Poetry
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Section 1 Introduction and the Types of Poetry(I)
Section 2 The Types of Poetry(2)
Section 3 The Forms of Poetry(I)
Section 4 The Forms of Poetry(2)
Section 5 The Devices of Poetry
Section 6 Bringing It All Together
Enrichment Reading
1 Tennyson : The Charge of The Light Brigade
2 Oscar Wilde : Ballad of Reading Gaol
3 Emily Dickion: Wild Nights ! Wild Nights !
4 Anne Sexton: Words
5 Jack Prelutsky: Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
6 Benjamin Zephaniah : The War Process
7 Norman MacCaig : Interruption to a Journey
8 Edward Thomas : The Owl
9 Mary Yamall: Too Soon
10 Vicki Feaver: Coat
11 W.H.Davies: Leisure
12 Abdul Ghafar Ibrahim : The Wall
Unit 7 Drama
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Section 1 Comedy
Section 2 Tragedy
Section 3 Theatre of the Absurd
Section 4 Theatre of Social Commentary
Section 5 Historical Drama
Enrichment Reading
1 Tom Stoppard : In the Native State
2 Harold Pinter. The Birthday Party
3 Arnold Wesker. The Merchant
Unit 8 Revision
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Section 1 Revision of Units 1 and 2
Section 2 Revision of Unit 3
Section 3 Revision of Unit 4
Section 4 Revision of Unit 5
Section 5 Revision of Unit 6
Section 6 Revision of Unit 7
Appendix
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Sources of Extracts