Literature In English (SSCE)
LITERATURE
SCHEME OF EXAMINATION
There will be three papers – Papers 1, 2 and 3. Papers 1 and 2 will a composite paper and will be taken at one sitting.
Paper 1 will be a multiple choice objective test. It will contain fifty questions distributed as follows:
(a) Twenty questions on General Knowledge of Literature;
(b) Five questions on an unseen prose passage;
(c) Five questions on an unseen poem;
(d) Twenty context questions on the prescribed Shakespearean text.
Candidates will be required to answer all the questions within 1 hour for 50 marks.
Paper 2 will be an essay test with two sections, Sections A and B.
Section A will be on African Prose and Section B on Non-African Prose.
Two essay questions will be set oneach of the novels prescribed for study.
Candidates shall be required to answer one question only from each section within 1 hour 15 minutes for 50 marks.
Paper 3 will be on the Drama and Poetry components of the syllabus.
It will be put into four sections, Sections A, B. C and D as follows:
Section A: African Drama
Section B: Non-African Drama
Section C: African Poetry
Section D: Non-African Poetry
There shall be two questions on each of the prescribed drama texts for Sections A and B. There shall also be two questions for each of the poetry sections ie Sections C and D.
Candidates shall be required to answer one question from each of the sections, making a total of four questions. The paper will take 2 hours 30 minutes to complete and will carry 100 marks.
Note:
(i) The Unseen Prose passage for Paper 1 shall be about 120 – 150 words long.
(ii) Only context questions shall be set on the Shakespearean text. The context questions will test such items as theme, characterization, style and setting in the Shakespearean text.
(iii) No essay question shall be set on the Shakespearean text.
SET TEXTS FOR 2016 – 2020
African Prose
(1) AmmaDarko – Faceless (2) BayoAdebowale – Lonely Days
Non-African Prose
(1) Richard Wright – Native Son (2) Patience Swift – The Last Goodman
*William Shakespeare:OTHELLO
Non-African Drama
(1) Oliver Goldsmith – She Stoops to conquer (2) Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun
African Drama
(1) Frank Ogodo Ogbeche – Harvest of Corruption (2) Dele Charley – The Blood of a Stranger
African Poetry
(1) Birago Drop – Vanity
(2) Gbemisola Adeoti – Ambush
(3) Gabriel Okara – Piano and Drums
(4) Gbanabam Hallowell – The Dinning Table
(5) Lenrie Peter – The Panic of Growing Older
(6) Kofi Awoonor – The Anvil and the Hammer
Non-African Poetry
(1) Alfred Tennyson – Crossing the Bar
(2) George Herbert – The pulley
(3) William Blake – The School Boy
(4) William Morris – The Proud King
(5) Robert Frost Birches – Birches
(6) William Shakespeare – Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s Day?
Wishing you SPEED and ACCURACY!
Course Features
- Lectures 66
- Quizzes 10
- Duration 40 minutes
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 54
- Assessments Yes
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LITERATURE IN ENGLISH PAST QUESTIONS
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LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH LESSON NOTE
SSS 1 FIRST TERM
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LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH LESSON NOTE
SSS 1 2ND TERM
- Background / Author’s Biography, Plot and Setting in Harvest of Corruption
- Subject Matter / Themes, Characterization / Characters
- Literary Devices / Language /Style
- Non-African Poem “The Proud King” by Williams Morries
- THEME/POETIC/LANGUAGE/STYLE.
- Amma Darko’s Faceless; Biography of the author, the background study of the text and the plot, setting, subject matters and themes in the text-Faceless.
- Amma Darko: Characterisation, Literary devices, Language and Style of Amma Darko’s Faceless
- AFRICAN POEM: VANITY- Birago Diop
- THE DINING TABLE by Gbanabom Hallowell
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LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH LESSON NOTE
SSS 1 3RD TERM
- Background Introduction to the book ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ by Oliver Goldsmith’
- The Plot and Setting of She Stoops to Conquer
- CHARACTERIZATION / CHARACTER IN SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
- The Biography of Horace Walpole, Background Study, Setting and Plot of ‘The Castle of Otranto.
- The Subject Matter and Themes in ‘The Castle Of Otranto’
- Characterization, Characters, Literary Devices, Language and Style Used in ‘The Castle of Otranto’.
- The School Boy by William Blake
- ‘The Panic of Growing Older’ by Lenrie Peters; Author’s Biography, Plot, Themes, Poetic Devices, Language and Style.
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SSS 2 FIRST TERM
SSS 2 FIRST TERM
- Introduction to Lonely Days by Bayo Adebowale (Prose)
- Subject Matter, Themes, Characterization and Characters in The Lonely Days
- Literary Devices, Language and Style of the Author of Lonely Days
- Biography of the Poet/ Background Study of the Poem, Subject Matter, Theme and Plot of the Poem ‘Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day’ by William Shakespeare.
- Poetic Devices, Language and Style
- Introduction to Dele Charley’s The Blood of a Stranger’
- Setting, Subject-Matter and Themes
- Characters/ Characterization, Literary Devices, Language and Style in ‘The Blood of a Stranger’.
- Subject Matter/Plot, Themes, Literary Devices in Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Crossing the Bar’
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SSS 2 SECOND TERM
SSS 2 2ND TERM
- Introduction to Native Son by Richard Wright
- Plot and Setting
- Subject Matter/Themes and Characterization
- Literary Devices, Language and Style
- African Poem: Gabriel Okpara’s “The Piano and Drums”
- Non-African Drama A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
- The Setting, Subject Matter and the Themes of Hansberry’s A Raisin In The Sun
- Characterisation, Literary Devices; Language and Style of Raisin in the Sun
- Introduction to the Poem The Pulley by George Herbert
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SSS 2 THIRD TERM
SSS 2 3RD TERM
- Birches by Robert Frost
- Non-African Poem: Birches by Robert Frost
- Ambush by Gbemisola Adeoti
- Ambush by Gbemisola Adeoti
- Kofi Awoonor’s The Anvil and the Hammer
- Subject-Matter, Themes, Language and Style, Poetic Devices in the Text
- Introduction to Othello by William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare Othello
- Othello: A Shakespeare Play
- Setting; Physical, Social, Religion, Political
- Literary Devices in the text “Othello”.
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SSS 3 FIRST TERM
SSS 3 1ST TERM
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SSS 3 SECOND TERM
SSS 3 2ND TERM
