1. Are they omniscient? Intrusive? Unreliable? Self-conscious?
Who is the narrator?
Are they omniscient? Intrusive? Unreliable? Self-conscious?
1st person?
3rd person?
Significance?
Whose thoughts do we get an insight into?
Character? Narrator?
Author?
Are there any other voices?
Does the speech reveal anything significant?
Point of view?
Messages?
Ideologies?
Morals?
Maya Angelou
Jane Austen
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anthony Burgess
Lewis Carroll
Angela Carter
J.M. Coetzee
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Sebastian Faulks
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Thomas Hardy
Andrea Levy
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cormac McCarthy
Toni Morrison
Ian McEwan
George Orwell
Sylvia Plath
Salman Rushdie
J. D. Salinger
Zadie Smith
Patrick Suskind
Donna Tartt
Alice Walker
H.G. Wells
Oscar Wilde
Jeanette Winterson
Virginia Woolf
Where is the text set?
How do you know?
Is setting significant?
How is it described?
When is the text set?
How do you know?
Is it significant?
Past?
Present?
Retrospective?
Implications?
How long is the narrative?
Over what
time period?
A Level English Literature Summer Task
Choose one of the authors from the list and read one of their books. If they are unfamiliar, do an internet search and look for the genres you enjoy reading. Make notes on all the areas on this sheet ready to present to your class first lesson in September.
Which characters
are we introduced to?
What do we learn about the characters?
What is suggested about the characters?
How is it suggested?
How are we introduced to them?