Editing English A1

English A is one of the Group 1 subjects for the IB Diploma.

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=Handling Different Works of Literature=

==Poetry==

Poetry is best dealt with the way one would deal with a prose passage analysis.  Typically one reads through the poem once or twice, and then looks for specific themes and literary devices.

With a poem, the best is to look for literary devices such as repetition, assonance and consonance, and plays on words.  Depending on the poem, you also might want to look for the meter.  Oftentimes, looking for overarching themes or motifs is more difficult because, since poems tend to run short (unless you are dealing with an epic), you will probably find only a handful of examples of a specific theme. 

==Prose Fiction==

==Drama==

*''A Streetcar Named Desire'' by Tennessee Williams (United States)

==Nonfiction==

=English-Language Literature=

For information works originally written in English.

==British and Irish Literature==
*''The Caretaker'' by Harold Pinter (England)
*''Dubliners'' by James Joyce (Ireland)
*''Waiting for Godot'' by Samuel Beckett (Ireland)
*''Equus'' by Peter Shaffer (England)

===William Shakespeare===

*''Hamlet''

*''Much Ado About Nothing''

==North American Literature==

*''The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald (United States)

*''Grendel'' by John Gardner (United States)

*''Song of Solomon'' by Toni Morrison (United States)

*''Of Mice and Men'' by John Steinbeck (United States)

*''Fifth Business'' by Robertson Davies (Canada)

==Other English-Language Literature==

*''Things Fall Apart'' by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)

=Works in Translation=

For information on works originally written in a language other than English.  Please include the original language as well as the country of origin.

==Americas==

*''Chronicle of a Death Foretold'' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia, original language Spanish)

==Europe==

*''The Stranger'' by Albert Camus (France, original language French)

*''Night'' by Elie Wiesel (Hungary/France, original language Yiddish)

*''The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum'' by Heinrich Boll (Germany, original language German)

*''Perfume'' by Patrick Suskind (Germany, original language German)

*''Madame Bovary'' by Gustave Flaubert (France, original language French)

*''Antigone'' by Jean Anouilh (France, original language French)

==Middle East and North Africa==

*''Midaq Alley'' by Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt, original language Arabic)

==Sub-Saharan Africa==
*''Disgrace'' by J.M Coetzee (South Africa)

==Central and South Asia==

==East Asia==

*''The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea'' by Yukio Mishima (Japan, original language Japanese)

==Oceania and Polynesia==