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CIE Literature Paper 1 - Poetry and prose

Time: 1 hour 30 minutes, 50 marks 
Our 2019 Prose Text: The Secret River by Kate Grenville .  
Our Poems:
"Friend" by Hone Tuwhare
"My Parents" by Stephen Spender
"Meeting at Night" by Robert Browning
"Praise Song for My Mother" by Grace Nichols
"For Heidi with Blue Hair" by Fleur Adcock
"Anthem for Doomed Youth" by Wilfred Owen
"Attack" by Siegfried Sassoon
"Song: Tears, Idle Tears" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"The Trees are Down" by Charlotte Mew
"The Trees" by Philip Larkin
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
"Cold in the Earth" by Emily Bronte
"One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
"Elegy for My Father's Father" by James K. Baxter
"Reservist" by Boey Kim Cheng

Students answer two questions: one from Section A (Poetry) and one from Section B (Prose). All questions carry equal marks (25 marks each).
There is a choice of two questions on each text.
Relevant passages/poems are printed on the examination question paper.
Candidates may not take their set texts into the exam room.

Candidates will have to demonstrate the following:
  • knowledge of the content of the text – through reference to detail and use of quotations from the text (AO1)
  • understanding of characters, relationships, situations and themes (AO2)
  • understanding of writer’s intentions and methods – response to the writer’s use of language (AO3)
  • personal response – sometimes directly (answering questions such as ‘What do you think?’, ‘What are your feelings about...?’) and sometimes by implication (answering questions such as ‘Explore the ways in which...’) (AO4).

Study Resources

Revising IGCSE Prose and Drama Set Texts
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Practice Essay Questions for The Secret River
​Assessment Rubric for Paper 1
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Sample Paper One
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    • Langlit HL May 2019
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    • Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    • The Handmaid's Tale
    • As I Lay Dying
  • GCSE English
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    • Grade 10 2018-19
    • The Secret River
  • Poetry
  • Writing
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