This commentary explores the following: Author's writing and background,themes/motifs,character analysis,narrative techniques and style etc.

This question is from the Cambridge International Advanced Subsidiary and Advanced Level-Paper 3 Literature in English-May/June 2016.

This is a collection of common literary terms that all students of Literature would find quite useful.They are well explained with appropriate examples.

This question is from the Cambridge International Advanced Subsidiary and Advanced Level-Paper 3 Literature in English-May/June 2016 and precisely -Songs of Ourselves.

This is a model essay that is context-based on George Orwell's Silas Marner.

This African story is well illustrated with pictures suitable for children betweeen 3-13 years.It serves multiple purposes of exposing children,especially those from other cultures apart from Africa, to other cultures and their nuances.It also helps with their creative writing and English Language usage.The themes explored such as Conservation,Animal Cruelty etc are such that every child would be educated .Every chapter is concluded by interesting and creative activities which would test a pupil’s understanding of his or world.

This e-book utilizes real IGCSE past questions from 2013-2017, where model answers are given to all sections of the questions, from comprehension to essays. Each essay also comes with an insightful comment to help with approach. The book would be useful as a revision tool for any IGCSE English as a Second Language examination.

This e-book, would among other functions help and encourage students writing the Poetry ,Paper 3 part of the CIE have a deeper appreciation and informed response to poetry .Incidentally, this section of the paper often poses a lot of challenges to most students and it is my hope that they would be guided by the analyses of all the poems set in the syllabus. For clarity and classification sake, each poem is analyzed under the following headings: Content/Form, Subject Matter/Themes, Sound Effects, Tone/Mood Atmosphere, Diction/Vocabulary and Imagery/Literary Devices. Based on experience and having taught the syllabus for more than 20 years, questions asked in the CIE do not exceed this range. With the inclusion of the poems, it would be easier for the reader/candidate to make quick reference and comparison where needed. LIST OF POEMS ANALYSED 1. Song: Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?- Sir John Suckling 2. What Thing Is Love?- George Peele 3. Sonnet 11- Lady Mary Wroth 4. Song: Weep You No More, Sad Fountains- Anonymous 5. When I Was Fair And Young- Queen Elizabeth I 6. They Flee From Me, That Sometime Did Me Seek- Sir Thomas Wyatt 7. Sonnet 61- Michael Drayton 8. Song: Go, Lovely Rose!- Edmund Waller 9. No Crooked Leg, No Bleared Eye- Queen Elizabeth I 10. Sonnet 31- Sir Philip Sidney 11. Written The Night Before His Execution- Chidiock Tichbourne 12. The Author’s Epitaph, Made By Himself- Sir Walter Raleigh 13. A Litany In Time Of Plague- Thomas Nashe 14. Sonnet 19- Lady Mary Wroth 15. From Underwoods- Ben Jonson 16. A Song- Thomas Carew 17. Walsingham- Sir Walter Raleigh 18. The Flowers That on The Banks and Walks Did Grow- Aemilia Lanyer 19. Come Live with me, and be my Love- Christopher Marlowe 20. Sonnet 54- Edmund Spenser 21. What is Our Life?- Sir Walter Raleigh 22. Sonnet 75- Edmund Spenser 23. Song: Spring, The Sweet Spring- Thomas Nashe 24. Sonnet 18- William Shakespeare 25. Sonnet 73- William Shakespeare 26. The Procession of The Seasons- Edmund Spenser 27. The Man of Life Upright- Thomas Campion 28. A Mind Content- Robert Greene 29. I Grieve, and Dare Not Show my Discontent- Queen Elizabeth I 30. Song: To Celia- Ben Jonson 31. Golden Slumbers- Thomas Dekker 32. A Farewell To The Reader- Isabella Whitney