English Revision

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Examination Skills

• Writing to Persuade
• Writing to Argue
• Writing to Advise
• Writing to Describe
• Writing to Explain
• Writing to Inform
• Language Devices
• Fact and Opinion

Section 1 - Different Cultures

• Cluster 1
  • Edward Kamau Brathwaite - Limbo
  • Tatamkhulu Afrika - Nothing's Changed
  • Grace Nichols - Island Man
  • Imtiaz Dharker - Blessing
  • Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Two Scavengers in a Truck
  • Nissim Ezekiel - Night of the Scorpion
  • Chinua Achebe - Vultures
  • Denise Levertov - What Were They Like?
• Cluster 2
  • Sujata Bhatt - from Search for my Tongue
  • Tom Leonard - from Unrelated Incidents
  • John Agard - Half Caste
  • Derek Walcott - Love after Love
  • Imtiaz Dharker - This Room
  • Niyi Osundare - Not my Business
  • Moniza Alvi - Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan
  • Grace Nichols - Hurricane Hits England

Section 2 - English Literature Poetry

• Seamus Heaney
  • Storm on the Island
  • Perch
  • Blackberry-Picking
  • Death of a Naturalist
  • Digging
  • Mid-Term Break
  • Follower
  • At a Potato Digging
• Gillian Clarke
  • Catrin
  • Baby-sitting
  • Mali
  • A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998
  • The Field-Mouse
  • October
  • On the Train
  • Cold Knap Lake
• Carol Ann Duffy
  • Havisham
  • Elvis's Twin Sister
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Salome
  • Before You Were Mine
  • We Remember Your Childhood Well
  • Education for Leisure
  • Stealing
• Simon Armitage
  • "Mother, any distance greater than a single span"
  • "My father thought it..."
  • Homecoming
  • November
  • Kid
  • "Those bastards in their mansions"
  • "I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself"
  • Hitcher
• Pre-1914 Poetry Bank
  • Ben Jonson - On my first Sonne
  • William Butler Yeats - The Song of the Old Mother
  • William Wordsworth - The Affliction of Margaret
  • William Blake - The Little Boy Lost and The Little Boy Found
  • Charles Tichborne - Tichborne's Elegy
  • Thomas Hardy - The Man He Killed
  • Walt Whitman - Patrolling Barnegat
  • William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130
  • Robert Browning - The Laboratory and My Last Duchess
  • Alfred Tennyson - Ulysses and The Eagle
  • Oliver Goldsmith - The Village Schoolmaster
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins - Inversnaid
  • John Clare - Sonnet