ZIMSEC · A Level
Literature in English
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- Critical approaches to literature At A Level, you read texts critically and consider different interpretations.
- The novel at A Level Direct and indirect characterisation, character development, foils and doubles, symbolic characters.
- Poetry: close analysis and comparison Influences of oral tradition: praise poetry (nhetembo/izibongo), call and response, repetition, proverbs, and performance. Themes include colonial experience, the liberation struggle, the land, urban alienation and protest.
- Drama, including Shakespeare Plays are written for performance: consider staging, audience response, stage directions, dialogue, soliloquy, aside, dramatic irony, and the use of space, lighting and sound.
- African and Zimbabwean literature in context Writers such as Dambudzo Marechera, Charles Mungoshi, Yvonne Vera, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Chenjerai Hove, Shimmer Chinodya and NoViolet Bulawayo have explored these themes in different styles – from realism to experimental and lyrical writing. Many writers also work in Shona and Ndebele.