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920 Sukatan Pelajaran Literature In English STPM (New)
1. STPM/S920
MAJLIS PEPERIKSAAN MALAYSIA
(MALAYSIAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL)
PEPERIKSAAN
SIJIL TINGGI PERSEKOLAHAN MALAYSIA
(MALAYSIA HIGHER SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION)
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Syllabus and Specimen Papers
This syllabus applies for the 2012/2013 session and thereafter until further notice. Teachers/candidates
are advised to contact the Malaysian Examinations Council for the latest information about the syllabus.
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2. NATIONAL EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY
“Education in Malaysia is an on-going effort towards further
developing the potential of individuals in a holistic and
integrated manner, so as to produce individuals who are
intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically
balanced and harmonious, based on a belief in and devotion
to God. Such effort is designed to produce Malaysian
citizens who are knowledgeable and competent, who possess
high moral standards, and who are responsible and capable
of achieving a high level of personal well-being as well as
being able to contribute to the betterment of the family, the
society and the nation at large.”
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3. FOREWORD
This revised Literature in English syllabus is designed to replace the existing syllabus which has been
in use since the 2004 STPM examination. This new syllabus will be enforced in 2012 and the first
examination will also be held the same year. The revision of the syllabus takes into account the
changes made by the Malaysian Examinations Council (MEC) to the existing STPM examination.
Through the new system, sixth-form study will be divided into three terms, and students will sit for an
examination at the end of each term. The new syllabus fulfils the requirements of this new system.
The main objective of introducing the new examination system is to enhance the teaching and
learning orientation in sixth form so as to be in line with the orientation of teaching and learning in
colleges and universities.
The revision of the Literature in English syllabus incorporates current developments in literature
studies and syllabus design in Malaysia. To reflect these changes, both canonical and non-canonical
texts are included in the syllabus so that candidates are able to gain insights into historical and modern
developments of literature and the ways in which these texts can be read and analysed. The syllabus
aims to develop the critical skills of candidates to enable them to engage meaningfully with texts from
different literary traditions and genres, and this in turn will contribute towards the development of
their aesthetic sense and moral awareness. This orientation in the syllabus requires candidates to give
equal consideration to texts and contexts, local and international perspectives, as well as personal
relevance and universal concerns.
The syllabus contains topics, teaching periods, learning outcomes, examination format, grade
description, and sample questions.
The design of this syllabus was undertaken by a committee chaired by Y. Bhg. Profesor Madya Dr.
Ruzy Suliza bt Hashim of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. Other committee members consist of
university lecturers, representatives from the Curriculum Development Division, Ministry of
Education Malaysia, and experienced teachers teaching Literature in English. On behalf of the
Malaysian Examinations Council, I would like to thank the committee for their commitment and
invaluable contribution. It is hoped that this syllabus will be a guide for teachers and students in the
teaching and learning process.
OMAR BIN ABU BAKAR
Chief Executive
Malaysian Examinations Council
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4. CONTENTS
920 Literature in English Syllabus
Page
Aims 1
Learning Outcomes 1
Assessment Objectives 1
Prescribed Texts 2−3
Description of Papers 4−6
Syllabus Specifications 7 − 25
Examination Format 26
Scheme of Assessment 27
Grade Descriptions 28 − 29
List of References 30 − 33
Specimen Papers
Paper 1 34 − 37
Paper 2 38 − 42
Paper 3 43 − 46
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5. SYLLABUS SPECIFICATIONS
920 LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Aims
The syllabus aims to enable candidates to engage with and make informed responses to a selection of
texts from different literary traditions and genres. It also aims to enhance their aesthetic sense and
moral awareness. At the same time, it will develop critical and creative thinking, as well as the
following soft skills:
(a) communication
(b) questioning, persuading, problem-solving, and organising
(c) interpersonal and multicultural sensitivity
(d) research, ICT, and life-long learning
(e) time management
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of the syllabus, candidates should be able to do the following in a clear, coherent,
and effective manner:
(a) identify, describe, and explain a range of literary elements, styles, and devices;
(b) analyse, interpret, and discuss themes, issues, and concerns;
(c) synthesise and evaluate techniques, points of view, and ideologies.
Assessment Objectives
Candidates are required to:
(a) demonstrate an understanding of texts by giving a critical and detailed response using relevant
and appropriate textual evidence;
(b) show how meaning is conveyed through the use of language, structure, form, point of view, and
other literary devices;
(c) compare and contrast texts in relation to language, structure, form, issues, and themes;
(d) demonstrate an awareness of the social, cultural, and historical backgrounds of the texts and the
different approaches to their interpretation;
(e) relate texts to their personal experiences and their own social, cultural, and historical
backgrounds;
(f) present their argument in clear, effective, and well-organised prose.
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6. Prescribed Texts
The prescribed texts for this syllabus are:
Paper 1: Poetry and Short Stories
Poems
1. Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser
2. Sonnet 73 William Shakespeare
3. A Poison Tree William Blake
4. The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth
5. She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron
6. Love’s Philosophy P. B. Shelley
7. To Autumn John Keats
8. My Last Duchess Robert Browning
9. A Bird Came Down Emily Dickinson
10. I Look into my Glass Thomas Hardy
11. At Tea Thomas Hardy
12. When You are Old William Butler Yeats
13. Mending Wall Robert Frost
14. After Apple-Picking Robert Frost
15. On Growing Old John Masefield
16. Piano D. H. Lawrence
17. Snake D. H. Lawrence
18. i thank you God for most this amazing e.e. cummings
19. The Magpies Judith Wright
20. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Adrienne Rich
21. Warning Jenny Joseph
22. Digging Seamus Heaney
*These poems may be sourced from the Internet
Short Stories from Malaysian Short Stories, edition Lloyd Fernando. Petaling Jaya: Maya Press Sdn.
Bhd., 2005.
1. Ratnamuni K.S. Maniam
2. Pasang Pretam Kaur
3. A Certain Cry Cynthia Anthony
4. Birthday M. Shanmugalingam
5. Through the Wall Pretam Kaur
6. Pictures in My Mind Pretam Kaur
7. The Dream of Vasantha K.S. Maniam
8. The Touring Company Shirley Lim
9. No Visitors Allowed John Machado
10. A Love of the Past Stella Kon
11. Removal in Pasir Panjang K.S. Maniam
12. As the Buffaloes Bathed Pretam Kaur
Paper 2: Plays
1. William Shakespeare. Twelfth Night. Arden Shakespeare, Third Series, edition. Keir Elam.
London: Cencage Learning EMEA, 2008.
2. Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Random House, 2002.
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7. Paper 3: Novels
1. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. London: Penguin Classics, 2003.
2. Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.
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8. Description of Papers
Paper 1
Poetry and Short Stories (2 hours)
Candidates are required to study the following poems and short stories:
Poems
1. Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser
2. Sonnet 73 William Shakespeare
3. A Poison Tree William Blake
4. The Solitary Reaper William Wordsworth
5. She Walks in Beauty Lord Byron
6. Love’s Philosophy P. B. Shelley
7. To Autumn John Keats
8. My Last Duchess Robert Browning
9. A Bird Came Down Emily Dickinson
10. I Look into my Glass Thomas Hardy
11. At Tea Thomas Hardy
12. When You are Old William Butler Yeats
13. Mending Wall Robert Frost
14. After Apple-Picking Robert Frost
15. On Growing Old John Masefield
16. Piano D. H. Lawrence
17. Snake D. H. Lawrence
18. i thank you God for most this amazing e.e. cummings
19. The Magpies Judith Wright
20. Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Adrienne Rich
21. Warning Jenny Joseph
22. Digging Seamus Heaney
*These poems may be sourced from the Internet.
Short Stories
1. Ratnamuni K.S. Maniam
2. Pasang Pretam Kaur
3. A Certain Cry Cynthia Anthony
4. Birthday M. Shanmugalingam
5. Through the Wall Pretam Kaur
6. Pictures in My Mind Pretam Kaur
7. The Dream of Vasantha K.S. Maniam
8. The Touring Company Shirley Lim
9. No Visitors Allowed John Machado
10. A Love of the Past Stella Kon
11. Removal in Pasir Panjang K.S. Maniam
12. As the Buffaloes Bathed Pretam Kaur
*These short stories are from Malaysian Short Stories, edition Lloyd Fernando.
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9. This paper consists of three sections.
Section A requires candidates to analyse a given poem or excerpt from a short story. Answers must
focus entirely on the particular poem or excerpt, demonstrating a close reading of, and a critical
response to it. No reference should be made to extraneous details not found in the poem or the
excerpt.
Section B requires candidates to answer a compulsory essay question. Answers will require close
reference to two poems from the syllabus.
Section C requires candidates to answer a compulsory essay question. Answers will require close
reference to two short stories from the syllabus.
Answers to questions in Sections B and C must be relevant, critical, and informed. Candidates must
choose appropriate poems and short stories in their discussions, providing textual evidence to support
their answers.
The Syllabus Specifications provide a guide to topics that will be assessed.
Paper 2
Plays (2 hours)
Candidates are required to study the following plays:
1. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
2. Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
This paper consists of three sections.
Section A consists of two excerpts, one from each play. Candidates are required to answer questions
on one of them. Answers must focus entirely on the particular excerpt. Candidates need to
demonstrate a close reading of and a critical response to it. No reference should be made to
extraneous details not found in the excerpt.
Section B requires candidates to answer a compulsory essay question on Twelfth Night. Answers will
require close reference to the play.
Section C requires candidates to answer a compulsory essay question on A Raisin in the Sun.
Answers will require close reference to the play.
Answers to questions in Sections B and C must be relevant, critical, and informed. Candidates must
provide appropriate textual evidence to support their answers.
The Syllabus Specifications provide a guide to topics that will be assessed.
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10. Paper 3
Novels (2 hours)
Candidates are required to study the following novels:
1. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
2. Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
This paper consists of three sections.
Section A consists of two excerpts, one from each novel. Candidates are required to answer questions
on one of them. Answers must focus entirely on the particular excerpt. Candidates need to
demonstrate a close reading of and a critical response to it. No reference should be made to
extraneous details not found in the excerpt.
Section B requires candidates to answer a compulsory essay question on Pride and Prejudice.
Answers will require close reference to the novel.
Section C requires candidates to answer a compulsory essay question on The Joy Luck Club. Answers
will require close reference to the novel.
Answers to questions in Sections B and C must be relevant, critical, and informed. Candidates must
provide appropriate textual evidence to support their answers.
The Syllabus Specifications provide a guide to topics that will be assessed.
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11. Syllabus Specifications
This syllabus contains two parts.
Part I outlines the Critical Appreciation skills component. It should be regarded as an integral part of
the syllabus and a crucial guide to analysing the prescribed texts and answering the questions in
Papers 1, 2, and 3.
No teaching periods for Critical Appreciation is specified in the syllabus. Teachers are advised to help
candidates acquire skills in critical appreciation when teaching the prescribed texts.
The total number of teaching periods for each paper is 120. The table below provides a guide to the
duration teachers may allocate to each genre when covering the syllabus.
Paper Genre Teaching Periods Total
Poetry 64
1 120
Short Stories 56
2 Plays 120 120
3 Novels 120 120
Part II outlines the syllabus specifications for Papers 1, 2, and 3. The topics, learning outcomes and
notes are meant to guide teachers and candidates in the teaching and learning of the texts.
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12. Part I
Critical Appreciation Skills Applicable To Papers 1, 2, and 3
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
1 Literature, Language, and Form
The formalistic approach will
consider the following:
1.1 Literary devices Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the literary devices Simile
used in the excerpts/poems; Metaphor
Personification
(b) discuss the effects of these
Symbol
devices in the
Hyperbole
excerpts/poems.
Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Rhyme
Metre
Alliteration
Assonance
Paradox
Contrast/Comparison
Irony
Repetition
Binary opposition
Motif/Leitmotif
Tone
1.2 Narrative techniques Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the narrative First person
techniques used in the Third person − omniscient
excerpts/poems; − limited
(b) discuss the effects of Stream of consciousness
these techniques in the Foreshadowing
excerpts/poems. Flashback
Foregrounding
Dialogue
Interior monologue
Speech and thought
presentation
1.3 Setting Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the setting(s) in Place
the excerpts/poems; Symbolic landscape
Time
(b) examine the significance
Social context
of these setting(s) in the
Atmosphere
excerpts/poems.
Mood
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1.4 Characterisation Candidates should be able to:
(a) describe the characters in Role/Significance
the excerpts/poems; Personality
Physical characteristics
(b) discuss the way characters
Speech/Thought processes,
are presented in the
Emotions, Inner/External
excerpts/poems;
conflicts
(c) compare and contrast Personality traits
characters in the Interaction between
excerpts/poems. characters
Gestures and mannerisms
Conflict and relationships
1.5 Structure Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the structure and Sequence of events
organisation of the Foreshadowing
excerpts/poems; Flashback
Foregrounding
(b) examine the structure and Stanza forms/Sonnets/
organisation of the Verse paragraphs
excerpts/poems.
1.6 Themes/issues/concerns Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and discuss the Literal meaning
themes/ issues/concerns in Metaphorical meaning
the excerpts/poems. Symbolic meaning
Message
Authorial intention
1.7 Reader response Candidates should be able to:
(a) relate to candidate’s own Interaction between the
experiences where relevant. reader, text and writer
Reader-centred response to
the text, leading to critical
evaluation
1.8 Language and style Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and describe the Varieties of English
language and style in the Hybridisation
excerpts/poems; Code-switching
Code-mixing
(b) examine the effects of
Language registers
language and style in the
excerpts/poems.
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14. Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
2. Literature, History, and Culture
2.1 Context Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and analyse Significance of historical,
historical, political, and political, and socio-cultural
socio-cultural dimensions contexts to the process of
of excerpts/poems. understanding the
excerpts/poems
2.2 Themes/Issues
(i) Power relations Examine relationships and
conflicts between
− individuals
− individual and society
− social classes
− different communities
Identify what is portrayed
as central and what is
portrayed as marginal
Impact of colonisation and
imperialism
(ii) Quest for identity Caught between cultures,
values and traditions
Encounters between the
traditional and the modern
Search for roots
Displacement/Alienation
(iii) Diaspora Migration
Sense of belonging
Alienation
Dislocation
Marginalisation
Home
Assimilation/Integration
/Adaptation
Hybridity
(iv) Beliefs/value systems Identify values of
− characters
− author of text
− society
Relate these values to
reader’s own value
system/ideology
Generation gap
American dream
Folklore, legends, cultural
allusions
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15. Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
(v) Race relations Discrimination/Prejudices
Tolerance/Acceptance
Oppression
Differences
Stereotypes
Hegemony
2.3 Cultural perspective Evaluate/Interpret text in
the light of one’s own
cultural position
3 Literature and Gender
3.1 Gender Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and examine issues Definition of gender
related to gender in the Culturally-sensitive gender
excerpts/poems. focus, i.e. how gender is
perceived from different
cultural backgrounds
3.2 Context:
(i) Historical How gender is
represented/perceived
(ii) Socio-cultural Systems of domination
based on gender, class,
race
3.3 Themes/issues Man-woman relationships
Gender inequality
Portrayal of women
Empowerment of women
Women disguised as men
(in plays)
Notion of sisterhood
Female/Male bonding
Mothering/Fathering
Patriarchy
Stereotypes
Pressure to marry
Economic inequality
3.4 Perspectives Identification of
female/male perspective
− Reading as a
Alternative perspectives
woman/man
from one’s own experience
and value system
3.5 Cultural perspective Evaluate/Interpret text in
the light of one’s own
cultural position
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16. Part II
First Term: Poetry and Short Stories
Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
1 Poetry
1.1 Background 4 Candidates should be able to:
(a) describe briefly the
backgrounds of the
different poets.
(i) Period Introduction to socio-
cultural contexts
(ii) Poet Brief biography
(iii) Supplementary Biographical material,
material letters, prefaces
1.2 Verse forms 6 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and characterise
Blank verse
various verse forms;
Dramatic monologue
(b) explain how these verse Free verse
forms relate to meaning. Rhyming verse
Sonnets
Narrative poetry
1.3 Devices 18 Candidates should be able to:
(a) recognise the devices in the
Symbol
poems;
Repetition
(b) illustrate the effect(s) of Foregrounding
these devices on the Deviation
poem(s);
(c) evaluate and appreciate the
ways in which these
devices contribute to the
aesthetic and intellectual
dimensions of the poems.
(i) Diction Choice and order of words
(ii) Figures of Ambiguity
speech Kinds of images
(sight, sound, touch,
smell, taste, motion, and
activity)
Simile
Metaphor
Conceit
Personification
Irony
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17. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
Paradox
Hyperbole
Understatement
(iii) Sound effects Alliteration
Assonance
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Texture (overall physical
impact of the words in the
poem)
1.4 Metrics 6 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the metrical Metre
patterns and cadences in Rhythm
the poems; Cadence
Scansion
(b) discuss their effects on the
poems.
1.5 Theme and 14 Candidates should be able to:
interpretation
(i) Meaning (a) recognise the literal Literal meaning
meanings of the poems; Metaphorical meaning
Symbolic meaning
(b) infer the underlying
Tone, attitudes, and irony
meanings in the poems;
Moral/Social/Cultural
(c) examine the themes of the significance
poems.
(ii) Argument Structure and flow of
argument
(iii) Literary Exploration of creative
ambiguity uses of literary ambiguity
1.6 Atmosphere 8 Candidates should be able to:
(a) discuss how atmosphere Use of language to evoke
contributes to meaning; different atmospheres
e.g. nostalgic,
mysterious,
celebratory
(i) Mood/Tone/ (b) recognise the different Identification of
Feeling moods, tones, and feelings predominant mood/tone/
in the poems. feeling
e.g. satiric, ironic,
consolatory,
despair, fear,
regret, love
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Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
(ii) Voice Distinctive voices of
personas
e.g. timid,
condescending,
proud,
humorous
1.7 Relevance 4 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Contemporary (a) use contemporary Cultural readings
interpretations interpretations of the Feminist readings
poems where relevant or
appropriate;
(ii) Relevance to (b) discuss any global or local
the relevance of the poems in
present the present world;
(iii) Personal (c) discuss any personal
relevance to relevance of the poems to
candidate candidate.
1.8 Moral concerns 4 Candidates should be able to:
(a) assess the moral values Different expressions
expressed in the poems. of moral concerns:
e.g. expression of
certain beliefs and
values
Respect for nature
2 Short Stories
2.1 Background 3 Candidates should be able to:
(a) recognise the socio-cultural
context of the stories;
(b) discuss the socio-cultural
and historical aspects of
the stories.
(i) Context Socio-cultural contexts
of stories
(ii) Supplementary Use of supplementary
material materials
e.g. biographical material,
prefaces, newspaper
articles where available
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19. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
2.2 Plot 6 Candidates should be able to:
(a) trace the linear or non- Linear development
linear development of – chronological sequence
events in the stories; Non-linear development
e.g. flashbacks;
(b) analyse how the sequence
stream of
of events contribute to the
consciousness;
meaning of the stories.
overlapping
(i) Definition Sequence of events
arranged in a chain of
cause and effect
(ii) Development Identification of important
of plot events that affect the
lives of the characters
2.3 Characterisation 8 Candidates should be able to:
What is observable in the
(a) describe the characters in
characters
the stories;
Relationships between
(b) discuss the ways in which characters
characters respond to the Inner conflicts of
social conventions, beliefs characters
and attitudes in a particular External factors
society; (e.g. traditional norms,
(c) express the extent to which gender constraints) which
the candidate agrees or affect characters’
disagrees with the ideas, thoughts, feelings, and
viewpoints and values actions
expressed in the stories.
2.4 Setting 6 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the spatial and
temporal setting(s) of the
stories;
(b) examine the significance of
these settings to the stories.
(i) Place, time, and Physical and symbolic
atmosphere landscapes
Spatial and temporal
settings (place and time)
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20. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
2.5 Narrative techniques 6 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the narrative Omniscient narrator
techniques used by the First person narrator
writer; Multiple narrators
Point of view
(b) examine the effects of
Stream of consciousness
these techniques on the
Motif/Leitmotif
short stories.
Foregrounding
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Monologue/Dialogue
2.6 Literary devices 5 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the literary devices Imagery (descriptions that
used in the stories; appeal to the senses,
simile, metaphor,
(b) examine the contributions
personification)
of the devices to the
Irony
stories.
Symbol
2.7 Language and style 6 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and describe the Choice of words
language and style in the (use of adjectives and
stories; adverbs; length of
sentences; cadences)
(b) examine the effects of Use of different language
language and style on the registers and varieties of
stories; speech
(i) Voices (c) identify and interpret the Different voices that
different voices in the a narrator adopts
stories.
2.8 Theme 7 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and discuss the How themes emerge
themes in stories; through the development
of characters, dialogue,
(b) relate to candidate’s own
movement of plot and
experiences where
settings
relevant.
2.9 Relevance 4 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Contemporary (a) use contemporary Political readings
interpretations interpretations of the Feminist readings
stories where relevant or Postcolonial readings
appropriate; Multicultural readings
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21. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
(ii) Relevance to (b) discuss any global or local
the present relevance of the stories in
the present world;
(ii) Relevance to (b) discuss any global or local
the present relevance of the stories in
the present world;
(iii) Personal (c) discuss any personal
relevance relevance of the stories to
to candidate candidate.
2.10 Moral concerns 5 Candidates should be able to:
(a) assess the moral values Encouragement to form
expressed in the stories. one’s own judgements
based on writer’s implied
values
Comparison between these
implied values and one’s
own values
Values or attitudes of
individuals and society as
a whole and socially
accepted codes of
behaviour
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22. Second Term: Plays
Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
1 Plays
1.1 Background 10 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Period (a) identify and describe the Late 16th-century and
socio-cultural/political/ early
historical background in 17th-century England;
which the play is set; 20th-century America
(ii) Writer (b) discuss elements in Brief biography of
playwright’s background playwright
that influence the play,
where relevant;
(iii) Stage (c) describe how the play was Physical aspects of
performed in the theatres of Shakespearean stage/
its time. modern stage
Audience
Actors
Stagecraft e.g. costumes,
lighting, scenery, set
1.2 Types of plays 4 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the types of plays
being studied and highlight
their characteristics.
(i) Comedy Definitions;
Types of comedy,
e.g. romantic comedy
(ii) Tragedy Definitions;
Types of tragedy:
− Aristotelian tragedy
− Shakespearean
tragedy
(iii) Tragi-comedy Definitions
(iv) Histories Brief background
connections with tragedy
(v) Social Plays Awareness of social issues
presented in the play
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23. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
1.3 Reading the text 26 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Language and (a) identify and describe the Understanding of varieties
style language and style of the of English used in the
play; plays (Shakespearean
language/ Black English
in the United States)
(b) examine the effects Appreciation of richness
produced by speech styles and variety of dramatic
of different characters. language
Use of different registers
of speech
Wordplay (puns)
(ii) Devices (c) identify the various Imagery
dramatic devices used in Motif/Leitmotif
the play; Dramatic irony
Soliloquy
(d) analyse their functions and
Aside
evaluate their
Chorus
effectiveness.
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Foregrounding
Comic relief
Gestures
Symbols
Disguise
1.4 Aspects of the play 50 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Plot and (a) identify the structure of the Acts and scenes
structure play;
(b) identify the movements of Plot structure:
the main plot(s) and sub- Identification of main plot
plot(s), and their and sub-plot
relationships to one another Relationship between
and to the total meaning of main plot and sub-plot
the play;
(c) discuss and interpret the Consider if the division of
significance of important acts and scenes
scenes. correspond to the
development of the plots
Significance of scenes,
cruxes and climaxes
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24. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
(ii) Characters (d) identify and describe the Main characters
main and minor characters Minor characters
and analyse and discuss Relationships between
their roles, significance, characters
development and
Roles and significance of
relationships;
characters
(e) identify special characters Development of some
where relevant and discuss characters
their distinctive roles in the The fool in Shakespeare
play;
(f) compare and contrast
characters within a play.
(iii) Themes (g) identify and discuss the How themes emerge
themes in the play. through the development
of characters, dialogue,
movement of plot and
settings
1.5 Relevance 10 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Contemporary (a) use contemporary Political readings
interpretations interpretations of the play Feminist readings
where relevant or Postcolonial readings
appropriate; Multicultural readings
(ii) Relevance to (b) discuss any global or local
the present relevance of the play in the
present world;
(iii) Personal (c) discuss any personal
relevance relevance of the play to
to candidate candidate.
1.6 Moral concerns 10 (a) assess the moral values Encouragement to form
expressed in the play. one’s own judgements
based on writer’s implied
values
Comparison between these
implied values and one’s
own values
Values or attitudes of
individuals and society as
a whole and socially
accepted codes of
behaviour
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25. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
1.7 The play as 10 Candidates should be able to:
theatre/film
(i) Dramatising (a) perform the play as a Dramatisation of the
whole or in part; whole play or scenes for
better understanding
(ii) Viewing (b) compare and contrast the Screening of multimedia
written and visual forms of versions of the play
the play, where applicable.
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26. Third Term: Novels
Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
1 Novels
1.1 Background 10 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Period (a) identify and describe the Introduction to the socio-
socio-cultural background cultural context of writer
against which the novel is
set;
(ii) Writer (b) discuss elements in the Brief biography
writer’s background that
influence aspects of the
novel;
(iii) Supplementary (c) use supplementary Use of supplementary
material materials directly or biographical
indirectly in discussions of material
the novel. e.g. letters, prefaces,
internet sources,
journal articles
1.2 Plot 20 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and describe Linear development
sequence of events that – chronological sequence
make up the plot of the Non-linear development
novel; e.g. flashbacks; stream
of consciousness;
(b) analyse and discuss
overlapping
significant events that
affect the lives of
characters in the novel.
(i) Definition Sequence of events
arranged in a chain of
cause and effect
(ii) Development Identification of important
of plot and events that affect the lives
subplot of the characters
1.3 Characterisation 30 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and describe e.g. round and flat
characters in the novel; characters, central/main,
roles of characters in the
(b) recognise and describe
narrative
different types of
characters;
(c) discuss the qualities and Study roles and
development of characters effectiveness of portrayal
in the novel;
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27. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
(d) compare and contrast Realistic or exaggerated
characters; portrayal of characters
(e) assess the credibility of What is observable in the
character portrayals in the characters
novel. Relationships between
characters
Inner conflicts of
characters
External factors
(e.g. traditional norms,
gender constraints) which
affect characters’
thoughts, feelings, and
actions
1.4 Setting 10 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Place, time, and (a) identify and describe Physical and symbolic
atmosphere spatial and temporal landscapes
settings of the novel; Spatial and temporal
settings (place and time)
(b) identify words, images, and
Significance of a shift
details that construct these
from one setting to
settings;
another
(c) explain multiple
significances of spatial and
temporal settings.
1.5 Narrative techniques 10 Candidates should be able to:
(a) recognise and explain Omniscient narrator
relevant elements of First person narrator
narrative techniques Multiple narrators
employed by the writer; Point of view
Stream of consciousness
(b) evaluate and discuss the
Motif/Leitmotif
effectiveness of relevant
Foregrounding
elements of narrative
Flashback
techniques in the novel.
Foreshadowing
Monologue/Dialogue
1.6 Literary devices 10 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify the literary devices Imagery (descriptions that
used in the novel; appeal to the senses,
simile, metaphor,
(b) examine the contributions
personification)
of the devices to the novel.
Irony
Symbol
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Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
1.7 Language and style 10 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and describe the Choice of words
language and style in the (use of adjectives and
novel; adverbs; length of
sentences; cadences)
(b) examine the effects of
Use of different language
language and style in the
registers and varieties of
novel;
speech
(c) identify and interpret the Different voices that
different voices in the narrators adopt
novel.
(i) Dialogue/ Use of different registers
Monologue of speech, including
dialect
Internal monologue -
thought processes of
characters
1.8 Theme 10 Candidates should be able to:
(a) identify and discuss the How themes emerge
themes in the novel; through the development
of characters, dialogue,
(b) relate to candidate’s own
movement of plot, and
experiences where
settings
relevant.
1.9 Relevance 4 Candidates should be able to:
(i) Contemporary (a) use contemporary Political readings
interpretations interpretations of the Feminist readings
novel where relevant or Postcolonial readings
appropriate; Multicultural readings
(ii) Relevance to (b) discuss any global or local
the present relevance of the novel in
the present world;
(iii) Personal (c) discuss any personal
relevance relevance of the novel to
to candidate candidate.
1.10 Moral concerns 6 Candidates should be able to:
(a) assess the moral values Encouragement to form
expressed in the novel. one’s own judgements
based on writer’s implied
values
Comparison between these
implied values and one’s
own values
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29. Teaching
Topics Learning Outcomes Notes & Examples
Periods
Values or attitudes of
individuals and society as
a whole and socially
accepted codes of
behaviour
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30. Examination Format
The examination consists of three papers, with equal weighting for each paper:
(a) Paper 1: Poetry and Short Stories
There are three sections in this paper. Candidates are required to answer three questions, one
from each section.
Section A: Critical Appreciation. This section consists of a question on a poem and a question
on an excerpt from a short story offered in the syllabus. Candidates are required to answer one
question only.
Section B: Poems. This section consists of one compulsory essay question.
Section C: Short Stories. This section consists of one compulsory essay question.
(b) Paper 2: Plays
Section A: Critical Appreciation. This section consists of a question on an excerpt from Twelfth
Night and a question on an excerpt from A Raisin in the Sun. Candidates are required to answer
one question only.
Section B: William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night: This section consists of one compulsory essay
question.
Section C: Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun: This section consists of one compulsory
essay question.
(c) Paper 3: Novels
Section A: Critical Appreciation. This section consists of a question on an excerpt from Pride
and Prejudice and a question on an excerpt from The Joy Luck Club. Candidates are required to
answer one question only.
Section B: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice: This section consists of one compulsory essay
question.
Section C: Amy Tan: The Joy Luck Club: This section consists of one compulsory essay
question.
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31. Scheme of Assessment
Code and
Study Marks
Name of Type of Test Duration Administration
Term (Weighting)
Paper
First 920/1 Written Test 75 2 hours Centralised
Term Poetry and (33.33%) assessment
Short Stories Section A:
Essay Question
2 essay questions given
Answer 1 out of 2 essay questions
Section B:
Essay Question
1 essay question given
Answer 1 compulsory essay question
Section C:
Essay Question
1 essay question given
Answer 1 compulsory essay question
Second 920/2 Written Test 75 2 hours Centralised
Term Plays (33.33%) assessment
Section A:
Essay Question
2 essay questions given
Answer 1 out of 2 essay questions
Section B:
Essay Question
1 essay question given
Answer 1 compulsory essay question
Section C:
Essay Question
1 essay question given
Answer 1 compulsory essay question
Third 920/3 Written Test 75 2 hours Centralised
Term Novels (33.33%) assessment
Section A:
Essay Question
2 essay questions given
Answer 1 out of 2 essay questions
Section B:
Essay Question
1essay question given
Answer 1 compulsory essay question
Section C:
Essay Question
1 essay question given
Answer 1 compulsory essay question
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32. Grade Description (Critical Appreciation)
Grade A
• Candidate shows an excellent critical understanding of the poem or excerpt.
• Candidate addresses all aspects of the question very well.
• Candidate demonstrates a critical, sensitive, and original response to the poem or excerpt.
• Candidate writes fluently and clearly.
• Candidate shows logical and coherent development of ideas.
• Candidate supports argument with appropriate textual evidence from the particular poem or
excerpt.
Grade C
• Candidate shows some critical understanding of the poem or excerpt.
• Candidate addresses some aspects of the question.
• Candidate demonstrates a basic critical response to the poem or excerpt despite some paraphrase
and narration.
• Candidate’s answer contains occasional errors in grammar and expression.
• Candidate shows some organisation and development of ideas.
• Candidate provides limited textual evidence from the particular poem or excerpt.
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33. Grade Description (Essays)
Grade A
• Candidate shows a detailed knowledge and excellent understanding of text.
• Candidate addresses all aspects of the question with sustained relevance to issues.
• Candidate exhibits ability to identify, analyse, and evaluate tone, attitude, character, form,
structure, and language.
• Candidate demonstrates a critical, sensitive, and original response to text.
• Candidate shows an informed response to text.
• Candidate writes fluently and expresses complex ideas clearly.
• Candidate displays logical and coherent development of argument.
• Candidate supports argument with appropriate textual evidence.
Grade C
• Candidate shows sufficient understanding and knowledge of text.
• Candidate addresses some aspects of the question.
• Candidate exhibits some ability to identify and discuss tone, attitude, character, form, structure,
and language.
• Candidate demonstrates a basic personal response to text.
• Candidate’s answer contains a fair number of language errors.
• Candidate shows some organisation and development of ideas.
• Candidate supports argument with sufficient textual evidence.
• Candidate uses some narration.
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34. List of References
Below is a list of suggested reference materials which may be of general interest and help when
teaching and learning the prescribed texts.
General Reading
1. Beard, A., 2003. The Language of Literature. London: Routledge.
2. Bressler, C., 1999. Literary Theory: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 2nd edition. Upper
Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
3. DiYanni, R., 2000. Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry and Drama. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
4. Gill, R., 1995. Mastering English Literature. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
5. Roberts, E.V., and Henry, J., 1998. Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Upper
Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
6. Selden, R., Widdowson, P., and Brooker, P., 1997. A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary
Theory. 2nd edition. London: Prentice Hall.
7. Tyson, L., 1999. Critical Theory: A User-Friendly Guide. New York: Garland Publishing.
Poetry and Short Stories
8. Kallay, K.G., 2004. Going Home Through Seven Paths to Nowhere: Reading Short Stories.
Budapest: Akademiai Kiado.
9. Lennard, J., 1996. The Poetry Handbook: A Guide to Reading Poetry for Pleasure and Practical
Criticism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
10. May, C.E., 2002. The Short Story: The Reality of Artifice. London: Routledge.
11. Strand, D., 1995. Colette: A Study of the Short Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
12. Thorne, S., 2005. Mastering Poetry. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Plays
13. Brown-Guillory, E. (ed.), 1990. Their Place on the Stage, Black Women Playwrights in America.
New York: Praeger.
14. Brown-Guillory, E. (ed.), 1990. Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African American Women
from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present. New York: Praeger.
15. Gay, P., 2008. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Comedies. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
16. Hine, D.C., Hine, W.C., and Harrold, S., 2002. The African-American Odyssey. 2nd edition.
Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.
17. Lee, V. (ed.), 2006. The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women’s Literature. New
Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall.
18. White, R.S. (ed.), 1996. Twelfth Night – New Casebook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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35. Novels
19. Bebris, C., 2005. Pride and Prescience or A Truth Universally Acknowledged: A Mr. and Mrs.
Darcy Mystery. New York: Tom Dougherty.
20. Bomarito, J., Hunter J.W., and Hudock A. (eds.), 2004. Feminism in Literature: A Gale Critical
Companion. Detroit: Thomson Gale.
21. Chan, S. and Hsu, M.Y. (eds.), 2008. Chinese Americans and The Politics of Race. Philadelphia:
Temple University Press.
22. Copeland, E. and McMaster, J. (eds.), 1997. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen.
Cambridge: New York: Cambridge University Press.
23. Gard, R., 1992. Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity. New Haven: Yale University Press.
24. Ho, W., 1999. In Her Mother’s House: The Politics of Asian American Mother-Daughter
Writing. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press.
25. Marsh, N., 1998. Jane Austen: The Novels. New York: St. Martin’s Press.
26. Wiltshire, J., 2001. Recreating Jane Austen. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Websites
General Reading
1. Norton Literature Online
http://www.norton.com/college/english/literature/OpenSite.htm
2. Literary Criticism
www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Tan.html
Poems
1. poets.org
• William Blake
• Lord Byron
• John Keats
• Robert Browning
• Robert Frost
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
http://www.poets.org/
2. PoemHunter.com
• William Wordsworth
• Emily Dickinson
• Jenny Joseph
• Thomas Hardy
• William Butler Yeats
• Seamus Heaney
• Adrienne Rich
• e.e. cummings
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem
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36. 3. Gary Bachlund
• Thomas Hardy
http://www.bachlund.org/At_Tea.htm
4. The Norton Anthology of Poetry
• Edmund Spenser
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nap/toc.htm
5. Friends of the Aranda Bushland Inc.
• Judith Wright
http://www.friendsofarandabushland.org.au/edu/Activity/Writing/Magpie%20poem.htm
Short Stories
1. University of Southern Queensland, Australia
• K.S. Maniam
eprints.usq.edu.au/2368/1/Wicks_Maniam9.pdf
2. The Victoria Institution Web Page:
The Literary Works of M. Shanmugalingam
• M. Shanmugalingam
http://www.viweb.freehosting.net/vilit_M-SHAN.htm
3. National Library of Singapore:
• Stella Kon
http://infopedia.nl.sg/articles/SIP_428_2005-01-14.html
Plays
1. Project Gutenberg
• William Shakespeare
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1342
2. Reading Shakespeare
http://keithsagar.co.uk/ReadingShakespeare/index.html
3. William Shakespeare
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/
4. English Department, San Antonio College
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/hansberr.htm
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37. Novels
1. Project Gutenberg
• Jane Austen
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1342
2. Luminarium: Anthology of English Literature
• Amy Tan
http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/amytan/
3. Amy Tan’s website
http://www.amytan.net/
4. Identity-in-Difference: Regenerating Debate about Intergenerational Relationships in Amy Tan’s
The Joy Luck Club.
http://www.goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-7338033/Identity-in-difference-regenerating.html
5. Amy Tan: Overview
http://www.academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/English/melani/cs6/tan.html
* Websites active at time of print.
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39. Section A: Critical Appreciation
[25 marks]
Answer only one question from this section.
1 I Look into my Glass
I LOOK into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, “Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!”
For then, I, undistrest 5
By hearts grown cold to me,
Could lonely wait my endless rest
With equanimity.
But Time, to make me grieve,
Part steals, lets part abide; 10
And shakes this fragile frame at eve
With throbbings of noontide.
Thomas Hardy
Discuss the feelings of the persona with special reference to the diction and imagery of the poem.
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40. Or 2 SHORT STORIES: Malaysian Short Stories
Now Jiga’s limbs moved alongside mine, lifting and depositing mud. A good three inches of grey
water lay around. When would the river flood? There was no telling with the vagaries of the monsoon
in this northern area. The wet was cold. It was clammy. It crawled into our boots, into our stockings
and lodged next to the skin.
As I moved I remembered a time when I slipped. Our bags were half full with our catch. We were
proceeding along a batas or what we thought was one. A slipping, a crashing and I was struggling in
an irrigation canal, my foot twisted under me. The previous year a woman and child had been swept
away. There was earth in my nostrils, earth in my mouth, my eyes burned, as I clawed blindly at the
shifting bank. My torch lay smashed in the nebulous water, my belt was ripped away; the night’s
catch of greenbacks sprang in great leaps about me. When Jiga finally managed to haul me up,
I breathed deeply and the death-in-life feeling evaporated, leaving an inward cry of unspeakable
relief.
A low sonorous clacking rose in the night air. It was like a low base chuckled out on indrawn
breath. More clatter. The so-many individual frogs responded to others in a clatter of sustained cries.
There is an insistency in the choric song of the green frog that cannot be ignored. For ages those that
went before and these had articulated the same way. The rains wakened their long sleep. Roused, they
only voiced the old tune, night after night, in a persistent chorus. Year after year they followed the
rains, their monotonous chant rising above the pelting rainfall, strong yet signifying nothing, except
perhaps, the nature of the beast.
The river ran by us, swollen, mud-dark and not knowable. The car ferry lay moored to our bank
but rose and subsided as though some powerful hand pushed up its underside, then tugged it down.
Ahead the padi-field glowed in that watery light common to the haze in dreams. November, thunder,
lightning, rain, frogs, rain, frogs…the sequence tapped out in my brain, even as the rain rapped
against our macs. Still the frogs’ calls invited. In this outlandish corner there wasn’t much a teacher
could do in his spare time. A hobby, games, reading, walks under the curious eyes of a people who
had never owned a pair of Batas in their lives, the repetitious excitements of the poker table and the
‘cowboy’ town across the border – and then Jiga arrived. I mean that the dreary wet months before
the December holidays came alive for us as we thrilled to the hunt of the edible green frog that
appears before flood-time and waste. Mick’s father deplored the killing of these creatures.
Cynthia Anthony : A Certain Cry
Describe the portrayal of nature in this extract.
920/1
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41. Section B: Poems
[25 marks]
Answer the question below.
3 With close reference to any two poems, discuss how love is expressed through images of nature.
Section C: Short Stories: Malaysian Short Stories
[25 marks]
Answer the question below.
4 Compare and contrast the portrayal of filial piety in any two short stories.
920/1
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