Secondary 6 English Literature
English Literature: from poetry, prose, drama and literary devices, through form and narrative voice, to literary periods and critical writing — written for an English-medium subject, with DSE-style examples and quizzes.
The order below is the recommended shallow-to-deep path.
Units 單元
Tap a unit name to jump to its topics.
核心概念 Core Concepts1/1 live
⚡ Unit quiz 快測5 Qs
Answer on your own first, then reveal — wrong answers go to your wrong-answer book.
Q1What is blank verse?
Q2What does the soliloquy do?
Q3How did serialisation shape the nineteenth-century novel?
Q4What are the formal features of modernist poetry?
Q5What are the four axes of integrated reading?
應用與應試 Application and Exam Skills1/1 live
⚡ Unit quiz 快測5 Qs
Answer on your own first, then reveal — wrong answers go to your wrong-answer book.
Q1What is the four-part skeleton of a critical essay?
Q2How do you test whether a thesis qualifies?
Q3What is the procedure of two-pass reading?
Q4What are the rules for embedding quotations?
Q5What is the commonest way to lose marks in a critical essay?
Vocabulary book 生字簿
All terms, bilingual (printable).
The historical circumstances — publishing, audience, thought — that shape a text.
The era of Shakespeare; the flourishing of English drama and the sonnet.
Unrhymed iambic pentameter; the backbone of Shakespearean drama.
A speech made by a character alone on stage, revealing the inner mind.
Drama tracing the fall of a great figure towards self-knowledge.
The nineteenth-century novel's commitment to ordinary life and society.
Publishing a novel in magazine instalments, encouraging chapter-end hooks.
The early twentieth-century movement breaking with fixed form and inherited diction.
The pattern of sensory pictures through which a poem thinks.
Writing that uses irony and ridicule to criticise society and manners.
One arguable claim the whole essay exists to prove.
An argumentative essay on a literary text, built on evidence and analysis.
Quoted words from the text used as proof.
A quotation absorbed into your own sentence and analysed at once.
A text not studied beforehand, read under exam conditions.
A fast first pass for gist, a targeted second pass for evidence, with the questions between.
Retelling what happens — the trap that replaces analysis.
Returning each paragraph and the conclusion to the thesis and question.
A brief plan — thesis, points, evidence — written before the essay.
An image or idea recurring through a text and gathering meaning.