Literature in English
Read original passages closely and explain how poetry, prose and drama create meaning.
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Language, imagery and tone
Literary analysis explains how a writer's choices shape a reader's understanding.
45 min
- 02
Reading poetry: voice, sound and structure
A poem arranges language to create meaning through voice, image, sound and structure.
45 min
- 03
Prose: plot, character and narrative viewpoint
Prose fiction presents events through narrative language rather than a requirement for verse lines or stage performance.
45 min
- 04
Drama: conflict, dialogue and performance
Drama is written for performance, though a reader can also study the script.
45 min
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Theme, setting, context and interpretation
Explain how a work develops ideas through events, places, relationships and social pressures.
45 min
- 06
Oral tradition, genre and literary forms
Study oral and written forms through performance, audience, language and cultural context.
45 min
- 07
Critical essays, evidence and comparison
Write focused literary arguments that connect technique, evidence and interpretation.
45 min
- 08
Unseen prose, poetry and drama
Read unfamiliar extracts through a sequence of observation, inference and evidence-based explanation.
45 min
- 09
Prescribed texts: verified registers and a study plan
Identify the correct set-text list and track the reading and detailed study still required.
45 min
- 10
Antony and Cleopatra: an introductory close-reading guide
Begin studying Shakespeare’s play through competing obligations, public identity and dramatic contrast.
45 min
- 11
To Kill a Mockingbird: viewpoint, prejudice and moral learning
Study Harper Lee’s novel through Scout’s developing perspective, the trial and changing judgements of others.
50 min
- 12
An Inspector Calls: responsibility, disclosure and dramatic time
Study Priestley’s play through the interruption of privilege, linked actions and competing responses to responsibility.
50 min
- 13
A Man for All Seasons: conscience, law and political pressure
Study Robert Bolt’s historical drama through More’s silence, competing loyalties and the public uses of power.
50 min
- 14
So the Path Does Not Die: guided reading and identity
Read Pede Hollist’s novel through belonging, bodily autonomy, family disagreement and migration.
50 min
- 15
Redemption Road: guided reading on memory and justice
Read Elma Shaw’s novel through Bendu’s work, remembered violence and the distinction between justice and healing.
50 min
- 16
Path of Lucas: guided reading on care and endurance
Study Susanne Bellefeuille’s life-based narrative through family choices, remembered experience and the representation of care.
50 min
- 17
Once Upon an Elephant: power and dramatic evidence
A guided reading companion to Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s play, focusing on political conflict, dramatic method and evidence-based interpretation.
50 min
- 18
The Marriage of Anansewa: storytelling and dramatic analysis
Study Efua Sutherland’s storytelling drama through desire, choice, comic tension and performance, using an authorised text.
50 min
- 19
Once Upon a Time: Gabriel Okara
Read social performance and self-criticism through voice, contrast and the relationship between generations.
50 min
- 20
New Tongue: Elizabeth L. A. Kamara
Investigate cultural change through a speaker’s judgments, linguistic imagery and the pressure of collective pronouns.
50 min
- 21
Night: Wole Soyinka
Read an ambiguous address through grammar, personification, bodily sensation and changing attitudes.
50 min
- 22
Not My Business: Niyi Osundare
Analyse a self-protective voice through refrain, narrative pattern and the consequences of distancing oneself from others.
50 min
- 23
Hearty Garlands: S. O. H. Afriyie-Vidza
Study the language of praise through occasion, communal address and the relation between achievement and continuing purpose.
50 min
- 24
The Breast of the Sea: Syl Cheney-Coker
Read an extended bodily metaphor through environmental history, allusion and the limits of consolation.
50 min
- 25
She Walks in Beauty: Lord Byron
Analyse balanced imagery, lyrical form and the speaker’s movement from visible beauty to inward moral judgment.
50 min
- 26
The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: the prescribed opening extract
Analyse the shortened selection through social contrast, mock-heroic description and the boundary between extract and whole tale.
50 min
- 27
Digging: Seamus Heaney
Read poetic vocation through sensory memory, admired skill and the changing relation between pen and labour.
50 min
- 28
Still I Rise: Maya Angelou
Analyse a defiant speaking voice through repetition, challenge, bodily confidence and historical inheritance.
50 min
- 29
The Telephone Call: Fleur Adcock
Read a staged conversation through unequal control, commercial language and the instability of promised reward.
50 min
- 30
The Stone: Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Read narrative grief through changing meanings of stone, a craftsman’s witness and the force of a delayed ending.
50 min
Expanded original literature concepts, original unseen passages and a verified WAEC2026–2030 title register. This is not a replacement for the prescribed books, complete text-specific commentary, or verified current JAMB/NECO prescriptions. Independent specialist review remains required.