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DRAMA
- Types
- Dramatic Techniques
- Interpretation of the Prescribed Texts
- African drama efua sutherlands the marriage of anansewa
PROSE
- Types
- Narrative Techniques/Devices
- Textual Analysis
- African prose pede hollists so the path does not die
- African prose elma shaws redemption road
POETRY
- Types
- Poetic devices
- Appreciation
GENERAL LITERARY PRINCIPLES
- Literary terms
LITERARY APPRECIATION
- Unseen passages/extracts
Other Topics
- Themes in macbeth
- Political themes in literature
- Non african prose susanne bellefeuilles path of lucas the journey he endured
- Mine boy
- Elements of fiction
- Death and mortality
- Symbolism
- Social commentary
- As you like it
- Kongis harvest
- Zambia shall be free
- Modernization and cultural change
- Oral literature
- Characters and setting
- Biblical allusion
- Kontiki expedition
- Post colonial themes
- The canterbury tales
- Rivers
- Cultural conflict in literature
- Themes and ideas
- Figures of speech
- Character and quotation identification
- Shakespearean tragedy
- Folklore and oral literature
- Character identification
- Colonialism and its impact
- Introduction to literature
- Nigerian literature
- Kenneth kaunda

Topics

Dramatic Techniques
Characterisation, Dialogue, Flashback, Mime, Costume, Music/Dance, Décor/scenery, Acts/Scenes, Soliloquy/aside, Figures of Speech.
Types
Prose fiction (Novel, Novella/Novelette, Short story), Non-fiction (Biography, Autobiography, Memoir), Faction.
Narrative Techniques/Devices
Point of view (Omniscient, First Person, Second person, Third person, Stream of consciousness, Epiphany), Characterisation (Round, flat, foil, hero, antihero villain, heroine, etc.), Language.
Poetic devices
Imagery, Sound (Rhyme/Rhythm, repetition, pun, onomatopoeia, etc.), Diction, Persona.
Literary terms
Foreshadowing, suspense, theatre, monologue, dialogue, soliloquy, symbolism, protagonist, antagonist, figures of speech, satire, stream of consciousness, synecdoche, metonymy, etc.