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English Language / Literature (A2)

English Language / Literature (A2)

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English at A2 Level focuses on advanced literary and linguistic analysis across a wide range of texts and genres. Students explore set works in prose, poetry, and drama while engaging with historical and cultural contexts. Critical essays encourage comparison of themes such as power, love, and identity, and optional language study introduces linguistics and language change. Independent research essays develop scholarly inquiry and sustained argumentation.

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Unit 1: Advanced Reading & Text Analysis

  • 1.1: Identifying Purpose, Audience & Context
  • 1.2: Tone, Voice & Register
  • 1.3: Language Devices (satire, irony, ambiguity, symbolism)
  • 1.4: Stylistic Comparisons between Texts (e.g. journalism vs fiction vs speeches)
  • 1.5: Discourse Analysis (structure, coherence, cohesion, rhetorical strategies)

Unit 2: Writing for Different Purposes

  • 2.1: Persuasive & Argumentative Writing (debates, editorials, polemics)
  • 2.2: Analytical & Critical Writing (reviews, commentaries, critiques)
  • 2.3: Creative Writing (short stories, descriptive passages, monologues)
  • 2.4: Directed Writing (based on given text or stimulus – letters, reports, articles)
  • 2.5: Style & Adaptation (formal vs informal, audience targeting)

Unit 3: Language in Context

  • 3.1: Language & Society (dialects, sociolects, world Englishes)
  • 3.2: Language & Gender (representation, stereotypes, power dynamics)
  • 3.3: Language & Power (political speeches, propaganda, media bias)
  • 3.4: Language Change (historical English, neologisms, technology influence)
  • 3.5: Comparative Language Analysis (texts across time & culture)

Unit 4: Exam & Research Skills

  • 4.1: Close Reading & Annotation
  • 4.2: Constructing Critical Commentary
  • 4.3: Comparative Analysis Essays
  • 4.4: Time Management in Exam Writing
  • 4.5: Research & Citation Skills (using secondary sources, academic style)

English Literature

Unit 1: Prose (Novel & Short Story)

  • 1.1: Themes & Motifs (identity, power, colonialism, family, society)
  • 1.2: Characterization & Narrative Voice
  • 1.3: Setting, Context & Symbolism
  • 1.4: Comparative Prose Studies (cross-text themes, different eras)

Unit 2: Drama

  • 2.1: Shakespeare (tragedy, comedy, history plays; soliloquies, dramatic irony)
  • 2.2: Modern & Contemporary Drama (20th–21st century plays, realism, absurdism)
  • 2.3: Stagecraft & Performance (dialogue, tension, audience impact)
  • 2.4: Political & Social Commentary in Drama

Unit 3: Poetry

  • 3.1: Unseen Poetry (close reading, tone, imagery, rhythm, voice)
  • 3.2: Prescribed Anthologies (detailed analysis, thematic comparisons)
  • 3.3: Poetic Forms & Structures (sonnet, elegy, free verse, ballad)
  • 3.4: Sound & Rhythm (alliteration, enjambment, caesura, onomatopoeia)
  • 3.5: Comparative Poetry Essays (similarities & contrasts between poems)

Unit 4: Literary Criticism & Theory

  • 4.1: Authorial Intent vs Reader Response
  • 4.2: Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic & Postcolonial Readings
  • 4.3: Intertextuality & Contextual Criticism
  • 4.4: Evaluating Critical Perspectives in Essays

Unit 5: Examination & Essay Writing

  • 5.1: Planning & Structuring Essays (thesis-driven approach, topic sentences)
  • 5.2: Using Quotations Effectively (integration, analysis, significance)
  • 5.3: Comparative Literature Essays (novel vs poem, play vs poem)
  • 5.4: Commentary & Close Reading Exercises
  • 5.5: Timed Exam Practice (balance between analysis, evidence & evaluation)

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