Table of Contents

List of figures Preface Acknowledgements 1. Starting Points: Identifying the Task, Having a Method 2. Structure: Shapes and Patterns: Shapes and Patterns in Poetry, Shapes and Patterns in Novels, Structure in Drama 3. Genre: Genre and Subgenre, Difference and Similarity 4. Narrative: Story/Plot/Narrative, Types of Narrator: First and Third Person, How Much Does the Narrator Know? How Reliable is the Narrator? Presenting Speech, Presenting Thought, Chronology and Narrative, Reader's Point of View 5. Representing Talk: Real-Life Talk and Literary Talk, Dialogues, Monologues, Demotic Speech 6. Creativity: Metaphor, Allegory, Intertextuality. The Framework Revisitied Glossary Suggestions for Answer References

About the Author

Adrian Beard was until recently Head of English at Gosforth High School and now works at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. He is a Chief Examiner for AS/A Level English Literature.

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