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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(Mark Twain) 209–11
alienation 10
Allende, Isabel, The House of the
Spirits 86–87
alliteration 47, 185
allusion 135
Alvi, Moniza, Tuning in 186
Angelou, Maya, I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings 140–41
Anne Hathaway (Carol Ann Duffy) 47
anthropomorphism 184–85
antithetical parallelism 134
Anyango, Catherine, graphic
adaptations by 161–63
arguments, definition 4–5
As I see you (Clive James) 105–6
asides (dramatic devices) 95
aspects (subject areas) 21
atmosphere (fictional mood) 192
audience, definition 35
Austen, Jane
Emma 204
Pride and Prejudice 58–61, 72–73
autobiographies 142–45
Bacon, Francis 147
Ballou, Sullivan, Letter to his wife
225–26
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot
99–100
Belloc, Hilaire, On Getting Respected in
Inns and Hotels 148
bibliographies 23
Bildungsroman genre 57, 84
biographies 3
see also autobiographies
blogs 122, 147
Bolter, Jay David 164–66
Boyle, Susan, newspaper report about
219–22
Britain’s Got Talent (television
programme), newspaper report
about 219–22
Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre 80–81
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights 205
Brummer, Alex, newspaper report by
217–19
caesuras 45, 185
Calvino, Italo, If on a Winter’s Night a
Traveller 85–86
Camus, Albert, The Wind at
Djemila 152
canons (literature) 34
Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood 138–40
Carver, Raymond, Yesterday, snow 154
Challenger space shuttle disaster,
newspaper report about 217–19
characterisation 8
characters, fictional 3, 192, 195, 206
clichés 27
Cobley, Jason, graphic adaptations by
159–61
colloquial language 192
The Color Purple (Alice Walker) 81–82
comedies 67
commentaries, oral 36–43
comparative literary essays 109–15
complex sentences 10
conclusions
definition 10
in essays 115
of oral commentaries 41
connotations 24
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness
(graphic adaptation) 161–63
context, definition 1
contrastive pairs 22
conventions 7
Cooke, Rachel 153
creative non-fiction 137–46
Crime and Punishment (Fydor
Dostoyevsky) 4–5
Crumb, Robert, A short history of
America 157
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
84–85
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
97–98, 101–3
defamiliarisation 3
dialogues 55
diary entries 227–28
Dickens, Charles
David Copperfield 84–85
Great Expectations 54–57, 71–72, 84,
169–72
Hard Times 207
views on literary essays 147
Dickinson, Emily
Letter to Susan Gilbert 223–24
There’s a certain Slant of light 106–7
diction (word choice) 181
direct speech 192
discussions, structured 127
doggerel 123
A Doll’s House (Henrik Ibsen) 13–14,
18–22
Dostoyevsky, Fydor, Crime and
Punishment 4–5
drama texts 93–102
Dreiser, Theodore, Sister Carrie
211–12
Duffy, Carol Ann, Anne Hathaway 47
Dulce et decorum est (Wilfred Owen),
graphic adaptation of 159–61
Eagleton, Terry 123
electronic literature 166–68
Eliot, George, Middlemarch 80, 208
ellipsis 16
Emma (Jane Austen) 204
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end-stopped lines 16
Enduring Love (Ian McEwan) 85,
197–98
enjambement 16, 183
epic poems 123
epic similes 51
essays
formal 147–52
writing 28–29, 109–15, 179
exposition 22
extracts 35
fables 10
A far cry from Africa (Derek Walcott)
187–88
Faulkner, William, Nobel Prize in
Literature acceptance speech
135–37
figurative language 13
film, literature and 168–74
first person narratives 13, 79–80
first person pronouns 45
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The Great Gatsby
82–83, 193–95
footnotes 30
frames (graphic texts) 156
free indirect style/narrative 91
Gaskell, Elizabeth, North and South
207–8
generic, definition 17
genres 34, 78–79
The God of Small Things (Arundhati
Roy) 85, 91, 118–20
Gold, Tanya, newspaper report by
219–22
graphic novels 153–64
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
54–57, 71–72, 84, 169–72
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
82–83, 193–95
The Great Railway Bazaar (Paul
Theroux) 93
Gutkind, Lee 137
haiku 123
A Hanging (George Orwell) 213–16
Hard Times (Charles Dickens) 207
Hardy, Thomas, The Return of the
Native 209
Hazlitt, William, On Going on a
Journey 151
Heart of Darkness (William Conrad),
graphic adaptation of 161–63
The House of the Spirits (Isabel
Allende) 86–87
Hughes, Ted
The thought-fox 108
Wind 182–83
hyperbole 215
hypertext narratives 124, 164–68
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
(Maya Angelou) 140–41
I wish I could remember that first day
(Christina Rossetti) 44–46
Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll’s House 13–14,
18–22
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (Italo
Calvino) 85–86
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
138–40
indirect speech 192
intensifiers 195
interior monologues 192
interjections 60
Internet, effect on essay writing 147
intertextuality 197
introductions
definition 27
in essays 109–10
irony 26, 98–99
Ishiguro, Kazuo, The Remains of the
Day 86
Island man (Grace Nichols) 190–91
James, Clive, As I see you 105–6
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë) 80–81
jargon 181
Jasmine (Bharati Mukherjee) 88–91,
118–20
Kafka, Franz, The Metamorphosis 2–3,
9–10
Kennedy, John F., Ask not what your
country can do for you 130–35
key shots in films 173
Kundera, Milan, The Unbearable
Lightness of Being 11–12
language patterns 63
Lean, David, film adaptations by
169–72
Lessons (Justin Torres) 200–202
letters (correspondence) 223–26
linguistic issues 3
literal language 3
literary autobiographies 145
literature, definition 123–24
lyric poems 103
Macbeth (William Shakespeare)
31–32, 62–66, 73–74
MacNeice, Louis, Snow 104–5
magic realism 86
Márquez, Gabriel Garciá, One
Hundred Years of Solitude 85, 87–88
matriarchies 22
McEwan, Ian, Enduring Love 85,
197–98
Melville, Herman, Moby Dick 205
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) 2–3,
9–10
metaphors 16, 184
Middlemarch (George Eliot) 80, 208
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William
Shakespeare) 66–69, 74–75
Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman 97–98, 101–3
Timebends 145–46
A View from the Bridge 95–97, 115–17
Milton, John, Paradise Lost 48–54,
70–71
Moby Dick (Herman Melville) 205
modernism 11
monologues 129
Montaigne, Michel de 147
(to) morph 166
motifs 24
Mukherjee, Bharati, Jasmine 88–91,
118–20
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narrative techniques 199
narratives 42, 79–80
narrators 45
Nichols, Grace, Island man 190–91
nihilism 31
No, I’m not afraid (Irina
Ratushinsakaya) 15–16
nomenclature 126
non-fiction texts 92–93, 137–46,
212–28
North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
207–8
novels
definition 34
features 79–93
odes 123
omniscient narration 80
On Getting Respected in Inns and Hotels
(Hilaire Belloc) 148
On Going on a Journey (William
Hazlitt) 151
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel
Garciá Márquez) 85, 87–88
onomatopoeias 105, 184
oral commentaries 36–43
oratory 130
Orwell, George
A Hanging 213–16
Politics and the English Language
148–49
Out of Place: a Memoir (Edward W.
Said) 93
Owen, Wilfred, Dulce et decorum est
(graphic adaptation) 159–61
oxymorons 138
PALS text analysis 213, 216, 224
Paradise Lost (John Milton) 48–54,
70–71
paragraphs
definition 10
in essays 112–15
pastiche 130
pathos 215
patriarchies 22
PEA structure 28, 30, 41
Perfume (Patrick Süskind) 25–26
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi) 158
persona 26
personification 56
plagiarism xviii
plots, fictional 192, 195, 206
plots, literary 8
poetry
features 103–8
writing commentaries on 180–91
Politics and the English Language
(George Orwell) 148–49
present tense 27
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
58–61, 72–73
prose texts
features 79–93
writing commentaries on
191–228
protagonists 26
punctuation 27
quatrains 45
quotations
definition 7
in essays 30–32
Ratushinskaya, Irina, No, I’m not afraid
15–16
references (to sources) xviii
register (level of formality) 186
relativism 7
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo
Ishiguro) 86
reportage 191
The Return of the Native (Thomas
Hardy) 209
rhetorical questions 10
rhyme schemes 44
rhyming couplets 47
Rhys, Jean, Wide Sargasso Sea 83–84
rhythm 16
role play 127–28
Rossetti, Christina, I wish I could
remember that first day 44–46
Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small
Things 85, 91, 118–20
Said, Edward W., Out of Place: a
Memoir 93
Satrapi, Marjane, Persepolis 158
Scott, Captain Robert Falcon, Diary
227–28
secondary characters 192
settings
dramatic 97–98
literary 8, 195, 206
Shakespeare, William
Macbeth 31–32, 62–66, 73–74
A Midsummer Night’s Dream 66–69,
74–75
Sonnets 112–15
A short history of America (Robert
Crumb) 157
sibilance 215
similes 16, 185
simple sentences 10
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
211–12
slang 181
Sleepwalk and Other Stories (Adrian
Tomine) 155
Smith, Zadie, White Teeth 92
Snow (Louis MacNeice) 104–5
soliloquies 65, 95
sonnets 44
Sonnets (William Shakespeare) 113–15
speeches 130–37
stagecraft 99–100
stanzas 16
stichomythia 100
stream of consciousness style 192
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee
Williams) 94–95, 97, 115–17
structure, text 192–93, 195, 206
Süskind, Patrick, Perfume 25–26
syntax 28
TECT technique 8–9
themes, literary 4, 193–95, 207
There’s a certain Slant of light (Emily
Dickinson) 106–7
Theroux, Paul, The Great Railway
Bazaar 93
third person narratives 80
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The thought-fox (Ted Hughes) 108
time references 183
Timebends (Arthur Miller) 145–46
Tomine, Adrian, Sleepwalk and
Other Stories 155
tone, literary 10, 192, 195
tone of voice 39–40
Torres, Justin, Lessons 200–202
tragedies 95
transfiguration 10
translated texts 2–3
travel writing 147–48
tricolons 50
Tuning in (Moniza Alvi) 186
Twain, Mark, The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn 209–11
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(Milan Kundera) 11–12
verse(s) (poetry) 16
A View from the Bridge (Arthur Miller)
95–97, 115–17
voice, tone of 39–40
voiceovers 170
volte face 112
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
99–100
Walcott, Derek, A far cry from Africa
187–88
Walker, Alice, The Color Purple 81–82
White Teeth (Zadie Smith) 92
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys) 83–84
Wikipedia 166
wikis 166
Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar
Named Desire 94–95, 97, 115–17
The Wind at Djemila (Albert Camus)
152
Wind (Ted Hughes) 182–83
works
definition viii
in translation 2–3
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
205
Yesterday, snow (Raymond Carver) 154
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