Coursework Guidance GCE English Literature OCR Advanced GCE in English Literature H471 Unit F664 Texts in Time This Coursework Guidance is designed to accompany the OCR Advanced GCE specification in English Literature for teaching from September 2008. © OCR 2007 Content 1 2 3 4 5 6 Introduction Summary of Unit Content Coursework Guidance Assessment Criteria Unit F664 Texts in Time Administration/Regulations FAQs 3 4 6 16 20 24 2 GCE English Literature 1 Introduction The
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Poetic Drama /Verse Drama of Modern age Poetic Drama Eliot’s plays attempt to revitalize verse drama and usually treat the same themes as in his poetry. They include Murder in the Cathedral (1935)‚ dealing with the final hours of Thomas à Becket; The Family Reunion (1939); The Cocktail Party (1950); The Confidential Clerk (1954); and The Elder Statesman (1959)..(1) Indeed‚ Eliot hoped that the study and critical reception of early modern verse drama would shape the production of modernist
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difficult. The sentences are constructed in a way that makes them hard to understand‚ because the sentences do not hang together. 1)There is no form in the poem and it is written as a prose poem. There is one stanza and 27 lines in the poem. There is no rhythm in the poem which is also characteristic for prose poems. The poem tells the story about how Africa was invaded by the white people. 4)The main themes in the poem are the relationship between black and white people and the issues between
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create further meaning‚ such as assonance‚ alliteration and onomatopoeia. These sound effects have a particular function in a poem. Poems often make heavy use of imagery and word association to quickly convey emotions.[1] Poetry is distinguished from prose because are used some techniques such as rhyme‚ meter and repetition. The same sounds can convey different meanings and it depends on the context of a poem. Sound patterns can be also discovered in some advertising slogans. In advertisement we
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fiction‚The Decameron is regarded as one of the earliest works of prose writing in Italian. Boccaccio was the master of the spoken language and of the swift‚ vivid‚ narrative style which is free from the abundance of ornament. He was also a master of the classical models of select vocabulary as seen in his prefaces to the days and the individual stories. These two aspects of The Decameron made it the origin of Italian literary prose for the following centuries. The work also contains ‘canzone’ – examples
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TEXTS ON THE C.X.C. SYLLABUS A World of Poetry edited by: Mark McWatt & Hazel Simmons-McDonald A World of Prose edited by: David Williams & Hazel Simmons-McDonald A Mid-Summer Nights Dream edited by: William Shakespeare Old Story Time edited by: Trevor Rhone Wine Of Astonishment edited by:
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tribes/ tribal chanting until the present time where in colonial days‚ the voices of the Filipinos against the Spaniards is voiced out through their native languages and through English (in verse and in prose). Development: riddles/ chanting/Through Voices/sound to written works such as verse and prose. - Indigenous Philippine Literature was born in the ethnic community - Bugtong (riddles) was used to entertain the people in the lineal villages along riverbanks and see coasts
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the attitude most of the papers took.” This perspective shift establishes the media as an “other‚” a foe of Vitale and a force that the reader should not identify with. The final perspective in the extract is seen in the final paragraph‚ when the prose begins talking of the tragedy of the situation. The second person is evident when the narrator says‚ “how sorry you are‚ how brave you think him‚ and say‚ well‚ whatever you can.” This perspective combined with the present tense draws the attention
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Asiatic style. Attic would resurface again‚ as the ideal‚ suggesting a more ascetic‚ brief‚ and witty concise style. Both styles influenced writers and speakers in Rome‚ and much later in Britain. Writers like Matthew Arnold made use of an Attic prose style‚ while the more florid Asiatic style had its proponents as well. In the Roman era‚ Cicero analyzed these styles and suggested there were several Attic styles and the simple style was not the only one. Cicero became embroiled in the Attic-Asiatic
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Decameron after his experience in 1348 with the Black Death and finished it around 1353. The various tales in his book ranged from erotic to tragic. It provided a document of life during that time and it is considered to be a masterpiece of the Italian prose. From 1350 Boccaccio became involved with Italian humanism and the Florentine government. He was asked to greet Francesco Petrarch. During their meeting‚ everything went well. Boccaccio started calling Petrarch his teacher and Minister and was encouraged
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