Year 12 Literature
assignments: Aspects
of Narrative
To be handed in on the dates shown below.
You should also be maintaining your 'learning journal'.
Week |
Hand-in date | |
23 |
Discuss the relationship between reality and the imagination in The Eve of St Agnes. |
Friday 6th March |
24 |
Look again at the first
46 lines of Lamia and write about how Keats creates reader
interest in the opening to his narrative. |
Friday 13th March |
25 |
What methods does Keats use to create settings in The Eve of St Agnes and Lamia? |
Friday 20th March |
26 |
'Beauty and evil are never far apart in Keats's poetry.' How far fo you agree? | Friday 27th March |
27 |
In what ways has Auden used and modernised the ballad form in texts 15, 17 and 19? | Friday 3rd April |
28 |
Make five or so interesting points about Auden's use of 'black humour'. | Friday 24th April |
29 |
Write about Auden's poetic method in 1st September 1939. | Friday 1st May |
30 |
Write about the importance of places in the telling of the narratives in three texts that you have studied. (Keats and Auden count for only two texts.) | Friday 8th May |
31 |
Explain the difference between 'diegesis' and 'mimesis'. Give examples of each from the texts you have studied. In what ways is each effective? | Friday 15th May |
32 |
Write about the ways that writers aim to make the beginnings of their texts exciting. Refer to three texts you have studied. (The collections of poems by Keats and Audne count as one text each.) | Friday 22nd May |