The following is a list of the texts which we have studied in class. You should use the list to start to select what texts that you are going to focus on for the final exam. Remember that you need to write two essays, but that you don't know what the questions will be.
There are various options open: two long texts (film and novel) and three poems or one long text (film or novel); short story; and three poems ... the main thing is that you cover enough ground not to leave yourself stuck with nothing to write about in the exam.
Section B (Prose Fiction)
"I Spy" by Graham Greene (short story)
"The Blue Film" by Graham Greene (short story)
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (short story)
"The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger (novel)
Section C (Poetry)
"In Mrs Tilscher's Class" by Carol Ann Duffy
"The Good Teachers" by Carol Ann Duffy
"Valentine" by Carol Ann Duffy (goes well with Sonnet 130)
"Education for Leisure" by Carol Ann Duffy
"Stealing" by Carol Ann Duffy
"Prophryia's Lover" by Robert Browning (could be compared and contrasted to either of previous two Duffy poems)
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
Section D (Film)
"Trainspotting" by Danny Boyle