SS 1 Literature in English (1st, 2nd & 3rd term)

Williams Blake was born on the 28th November 1757 in London where he remained for most of his life. He was educated at home by his mother until 1767 when… Read More »THE SCHOOL BOY BY WILLIAMS BLAKES

PULLEY ABOUT THE AUTHOR George Herbert (1593-1633) like Donne had both a political career (as public orator at Cambridge University and as a Member of Parliament, and religious career as… Read More »NON-AFRICAN POETRY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Oliver goldsmith is an Irishman that was born to rev. goldsmith in 1728 at Pallas. The goldsmiths appeared not interested to worldly matters. He lives in solitude.… Read More »SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER

OTHELLO The play is in chronological order, one event succeeds, the order. It opens with Lago a soldier under the command of Othello. He is arguing with Roderigo a wealthy… Read More »NON – AFRICAN DRAMA – OTHELLO By Shakespare

Written by Kofi Awoonor Kofi Awoonor was born at Wheta, near Keta in the Volta Region of Ghana, of a Togolese mother and a Sierra Leonean Father. He was educated… Read More »THE ANVIL AND THE HAMMER

ABOUT THE POET He is a Sierra Leonia writer who has produced many works, to develop African literature. A dinning table is from the collection of his poems. The Poem… Read More »THE DINNING TABLE (GBANABOM HALLOWELL)

GABRIEL IMOMOTINE OBAINBAING OKARA: was born in 1921 in the ijaw area of the delta region of Nigeria. After hi secondary education in, Nigeria, he developed himself, by private reading… Read More »AFRICAN PEOTRY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Raymond Caleb Ayodele Charley was born on 27th March 1948. He schooled in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown and onwards in Leads University London. He studied theatre… Read More »THE BLOOD OF A STRANGER

HARVEST OF CORRUPTION ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frank Ogodo Ogbeche is from Yala Area of Cross River State. He attended Awori-Ajeromi Grammar School, Agboju in Lagos and the Federal school of… Read More »INTRODUCTION TO AFRICA DRAMA – HARVEST OF CORRUPTION

This is the passing on from one generation (and/or Locality) to another of songs, charts, proverbs and other version compositions within and between non-literate cultures; or the accumulated stock of… Read More »ORAL TRADITION OF LITERATURE

WHAT IS DRAMA Drama is defined as a penetration of life through artificial means. It is an imitation of an action. It is a type of story that exists mainly… Read More »DRAMA

Ballad: The word, ballad is derived from a Latin word “ballare” meaning “to dance”. It comprises words which are out of current use. The poem derived from village festivals and… Read More »DIFFERENT FORMS OF POETRY AND TYPES OF POETRY

WHAT IS POETRY? Poetry is a branch of Literature and it is a collection of poems. What is a poem? Poem is a feeling expressed in imaginative language and in… Read More »POETRY

WHAT IS PROSE? The third genie of Literature is Prose. Prose which is a literacy piece expressed in ordinary and straight forward language other than in Verse. A writer of… Read More »PROSE

Plot:The plot usually refers to the sequence of events and happening that make up a story. There is usually a pattern, unintended or intentional, that threads the plot together. The… Read More »ELEMENT OF PROSE

What is Friction? This is the general term for invented stories, now usually applied to novels, short stories, novellus, romances, fabled and other narrative works in prose, even though most… Read More »FICTION AND NON-FICTION

Literature in this sense is generally grouped under three main genres: poetry, prose, and drama. Each of these genre has certain features that make it distinctive from others; and it… Read More »GENRE OF LITERATURE – PROSE, POETRY AND DRAMA

In general Literature means “Written language” – everything that is “written” and this includes texts produced in disciplines such as Law, Science, Sports, Religion, History, Economics, Technology e.t.c.   What… Read More »Introduction to the study of Literature-In-English