**Only for CI3 and repeat JC2 candidates.
What has changed:
Folding and Flagging of Pages
- Pages can be flagged with paper clips or by folding the page corners.
- Page numbers can be highlighted, underlined, or marked out with vertical lines.
- Any other kind of folding or flagging of pages in texts (for example, use of sticky notes or tape flags) is not permitted.
Elective Papers 2 and 3
- Previously two different papers.
- Now share the same questions for Sections A and C but will have different questions for Section B.
Section A: Unseen Prose and Drama
All unseen prose and drama passages will be from works written originally in English after 1550. The unseen prose passages will be from fiction texts only. Knowledge of the literary contexts of the passages or of other works by the writers is not required in answers for this section.
Section C: Pre-20th Century Writing
H2 candidates will study one major work of Pre-20th Century writing to deepen their understanding and appreciation of literary texts of enduring significance. Knowledge of the literary context specific to the selected text is expected.
Candidates will study one of the following texts:
William Shakespeare: King Lear
Henrik Ibsen: An Enemy of the People (translated by James McFarlane)
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Emily Dickinson: selection of poems (see list in Appendix A)
John Donne: selection of poems (see list in Appendix A)
PAPER 2 SECTION B: THE ENGLISH ROMANTIC PERIOD (1785–1832)
This section focuses on English writing from 1785 to 1832. The Romantic literature written in England during this period grew out of the domestic emotionalism of the literature of Sensibility in the late eighteenth century and was influenced by the social changes witnessed in Europe during this time. Regarded as a literary age of some of the finest poetry and prose written in the English language, this period features significant texts associated with ideas including, but not limited to, dreams, beauty, home, nature, creativity, and the individual.
Candidates will study two of the following texts:
John Keats: selection of poems (see list in Appendix A)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: selection of poems (see list in Appendix A)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: selection of poems (see list in Appendix A)
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
PAPER 3 SECTION B: POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE
This literary topic focuses on important Commonwealth literature written as a response to Empire. The selected texts explore ideas including, but not limited to, nationhood, ethnicity, identity, pluralism and transcultural experiences that feature in postcolonial literature.
Candidates will study two of the following texts:
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: A Grain of Wheat
Chinua Achebe: Anthills of the Savannah
Rohinton Mistry: Family Matters
David Malouf: Remembering Babylon
Edwin Thumboo: selection of poems (see list in Appendix A)
Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
What remains the same:
- Requirements for Paper 1 remains the same, except for change in texts.
- Paper 2 Section B focuses on a period of literary writing.
- Paper 3 Section B focuses on a topic of literary significance.
Paper 1
Section A: Poetry
All unseen poems will be from works written originally in English after 1550. At least one of the questions will feature a Singaporean poem. Knowledge of the literary contexts of the poems or of other works by the named poets is not required in answers for this section.
Section B: Prose
In this section, candidates will study one of the following prose texts:
Julian Barnes: Arthur and George
Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
Charles Dickens: Hard Times
Tan Twan Eng: The Garden of Evening Mists
Section C: Drama
In this section, candidates will study one of the following drama texts:
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley: The Changeling
Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
William Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale
Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars (Both plays are to be studied.)
