IGCSEEnglish LiteratureCambridge (CIE)1. Poetry & Prose

1. Poetry & Prose (Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE English Literature)

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Paper 1 Overview

  1. Paper 1 Overview

How To Answer The Poetry & Prose Questions

  1. Section A: What The Question Is Asking
  2. Section A: How To Get Full Marks
  3. Section A: Mark Scheme & Model Answer
  4. Section B: What The Question Is Asking
  5. Section B: How To Get Full Marks
  6. Section B: Mark Scheme & Model Answer

Songs of Ourselves Volume 1

  1. Overview
  2. Song: Love Armed
  3. A Different History
  4. The Chimney-Sweeper
  5. Where I Come From
  6. Report to Wordsworth
  7. Lament
  8. The Cockroach
  9. Follower
  10. Storyteller
  11. Before the Sun
  12. A Married State
  13. From 'An Essay on Man'
  14. Carpet-weavers, Morocco
  15. Sonnet 18
  16. Hunting Snake

Stories of Ourselves Volume 2

  1. Overview
  2. No.3 Nick
  3. No.14 The Woman's Rose
  4. No.26 The Black Ball
  5. No.30 The Gold Watch
  6. No.35 When It Happens
  7. No.37 The Man Who Walked on the Moon
  8. No.38 A Walk to the Jetty
  9. No.40 Showing the Flag
  10. No.47 Haywards Heath
  11. No.49 Fluke

To Kill a Mockingbird

  1. To Kill a Mockingbird: Plot Summary
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird: Themes
  3. To Kill a Mockingbird: Characters
  4. To Kill a Mockingbird: Context
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird: Writer's Methods and Techniques
  6. To Kill a Mockingbird: Key Text Quotations

Pride and Prejudice

  1. Pride and Prejudice: Plot Summary
  2. Pride and Prejudice: Themes
  3. Pride and Prejudice: Characters
  4. Pride and Prejudice: Context
  5. Pride and Prejudice: Writer's Methods and Techniques
  6. Pride and Prejudice: Key Text Quotations
  7. Pride and Prejudice: Character Quotations

The War of the Worlds

  1. The War of the Worlds: Plot Summary
  2. The War of the Worlds: Themes
  3. The War of the Worlds: Characters
  4. The War of the Worlds: Context
  5. The War of the Worlds: Writer's Methods & Techniques
  6. The War of the Worlds: Key Quotations

I'm the King of the Castle

  1. I'm the King of the Castle: Plot Summary
  2. I'm the King of the Castle: Understanding the Text
  3. I'm the King of the Castle: Themes
  4. I'm the King of the Castle: Characters
  5. I'm the King of the Castle: Writer's Methods and Techniques
  6. I'm the King of the Castle: Key Quotations
  7. I'm the King of the Castle: Character Quotations

Things Fall Apart

  1. Things Fall Apart: Plot Summary
  2. Things Fall Apart: Understanding the Text
  3. Things Fall Apart: Themes
  4. Things Fall Apart: Writer's Methods and Techniques
  5. Things Fall Apart: Key Quotations

Fire on the Mountain

  1. Fire on the Mountain: Plot Summary
  2. Fire on the Mountain: Understanding the Text
  3. Fire on the Mountain: Themes
  4. Fire on the Mountain: Characters
  5. Fire on the Mountain: Writer's Methods and Techniques
  6. Fire on the Mountain: Key Quotations
  7. Fire on the Mountain: Character Quotations

Great Expectations

  1. Great Expectations: Plot Summary
  2. Great Expectations: Understanding the Text
  3. Great Expectations: Themes
  4. Great Expectations: Characters
  5. Great Expectations: Context
  6. Great Expectations: Writer's Methods & Techniques
  7. Great Expectations: Key Quotations
  8. Great Expectations: Character Quotations

Rebecca

  1. Rebecca: Plot Summary
  2. Rebecca: Understanding the Text
  3. Rebecca: Themes
  4. Rebecca: Characters
  5. Rebecca: Writer's Methods & Techniques
  6. Rebecca: Key Quotations

Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4

  1. Songs of Ourselves Volume 1, Part 4
  2. The City Planners
  3. The Planners
  4. The Man with Night Sweats
  5. Night Sweat
  6. Rain
  7. The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument
  8. From Long Distance (a.k.a Long Distance II)
  9. Funeral Blues
  10. He Never Expected Much
  11. The Telephone Call
  12. A Consumer’s Report
  13. Request To A Year
  14. On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book
  15. Ozymandias
  16. Away, Melancholy

Songs of Ourselves Volume 1

  1. Exam Questions

Stories of Ourselves Volume 2

  1. Exam Questions

To Kill a Mockingbird

  1. Exam Questions

Pride and Prejudice

  1. Exam Questions

The War of the Worlds

  1. Exam Questions

I'm the King of the Castle

  1. Exam Questions

Things Fall Apart

  1. Exam Questions

Fire on the Mountain

  1. Exam Questions
Cambridge (CIE) IGCSE English Literature Past Papers