Common Terms and Concepts in Literature
Type A: Questions that require knowledge and study of one text.
Type B: Questions of comparison that require knowledge and study of two poems or short stories.
PRESCRIBED TEXTS FOR THE 2015-2017 EXAMINATION
Four type A questions will be set
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
The Lion and the Jewel by Wole Soyinka
Two type B questions will be set
Selections from a World of Poetry (New Edition) by Hazel Simmons-Mcdonald and Mark McWatt
A Contemplation Upon Flowers by Henry King
Once Upon a Time by Gabriel Okara
Forgive My Guilt by Robert P. Tristram
West Indies, U.S.A. by Stewart Brown
Sonnet Composed upon Wesminister Bridge by William Wordsworth
Orchids by Hazel-Simmons Mcdonald
The Woman Speaks to the Man who has Employed Her Son by Lorna Goodison
It is the Constant Image of your Face by Dennis Brutus
A Lesson For this Sunday by Derek Walcott
A Stone’s Throw by Elma Mitchell
Test Match Sabina Park by Stewart Brown
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
Dreaming Black Boy by James Berry
Death Came to see me in Hot Pink Pants by Heather Royes
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
This is the dark time, my love by Martin Carter
Ol’Higue by Mark McWatt
‘Le Loupgarou’ by Derek Walcott
South by Kamau Brathwaite
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Novel–Four Type A questions will be set
Frangipani House by Beryl Gilroy
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Short Story – Two Type B questions will be set from the ten named short stories.
Selections from A World of Prose (New Edition) for CXC by David Williams and Hazel Simmons-McDonald
Raymond’s Run by Tony Cade Bambara
Shabine by Hazel Simmons-McDonald
Emma by Carolyn Cole
The Man of the House by Frank O’Connor
Georgia and Them There United States by Velma Pollard
The Day the World Almost Came to an End by Pearl Crayton
The Two Grandmothers by Olive Senior
Berry by Langston Hughes
Mom Luby and the Social Worker by Kristin Hunter
To Da-duh, in Memoriam by Paule Marshall