17 - 28 Mar 2025
London (UK)
Hotel : Landmark Office Space - Oxford Street
Cost : 9240 € Euro
This course is perfect for those who are looking to bolster their literary writing abilities including poetry, drama, and fictional world-building. It will also help you develop your reading and comprehension skills and how you can utilize them to help create more colorful and compelling writing.
About our English Literature and Composition Course
In this course you will learn how to evaluate and properly understand works of fiction, drama, and poetry, immersing yourself in various periods and cultures in the process. You will read literary works and then write essays to support and explain your personal analysis of them. Not only will you gain a deeper appreciation of literature, but develop your own writing skills in the process.
Day 1: Short Fiction I
This unit focuses on your critical reading skills in order to help you read, interpret, and analyze prose with a critical perspective.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Interpret the role of a given character within a fictional piece
Identify and interpret the setting of a story
Understand how a story is structured and the way in which it is interpreted
Understand and interpret a narrator and their perspective
Read text both literally and figuratively
Learn the basics of literary analysis and how it can help you develop as a writer
Day 2: Poetry I
This unit focuses on your ability to read and explore poetry with a critical eye and how to analyze similar elements within a wide variety of poetry.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Identify characters within poetry
Understand how to interpret the meaning behind the poetic structure
Analyze word choice and how to find meaning within
Identify techniques such as contrast, metaphor, simile, and alliteration and how they can transform a piece of poetry
Day 3: Longer Fiction & Drama I
In this unit, you will begin to observe how the literary techniques that you have explored in the prior units and how unfold over the course of longer works. Following that, you will analyze how certain characters develop and how they interact with others throughout the course of the narrative.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Effectively interpret character descriptions and perspectives
Understand character evolution throughout a narrative and how that helps to develop the plot
Utilise conflict and plot development
Interpret symbolism within a text
Identify any evidence supporting literary arguments
Day 4: Short Fiction II
Begin to develop a deeper understanding of the various roles of character and conflict within fiction and explore how a narrator’s perspective can effectively color storytelling.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Explore protagonists, antagonists, character relationships, and conflict in fiction
Identify character interactions with the setting and their significance to the story and its development
Identifying archetypes in literature
Explore various types of narration like a stream of consciousness
Identify and understand narrative distance, tone, and perspectives
Day 5: Poetry II
In unit 5 you will study the various forms of poetry and examine how structure and figurative language can create impactful meaning.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Identify and understand traits of open and closed structures in poetry
Explore the use of techniques used in poetry such as imagery and hyperbole
Understand that types of comparisons in poetry such as allusion and personification
Be able to identify and interpret extended metaphors
Day 6: Longer Fiction & Drama II
In this unit, you will begin to analyze how the various literary techniques play out and shift throughout the course of longer works. You will also begin charting how characters change (or remain the same) as they are affected by various developments in the plot.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Interpret foil characters
Understand and interpret various characters and their motives
Understanding nonlinear narrative structures such as foreshadowing and flashbacks
Identify and explore the effects of narrative tone and bias in reading fiction
Characters as archetypes, symbols, and metaphors
How to develop literary arguments inside a broader context of works
Day 7: Short Fiction III
In unit 7 you will look at how various works of fiction interact with and comment on the world around them and the society or period that their authors lived or are living in.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Explore sudden or gradual alterations in characters
Using epiphany as a plot driving tool
The relationships between various characters and groups
Understanding character interactions with various settings
Explore the significance of the pacing of a given narrative
Using setting as symbology
Learn how to interpret texts within their societal and historical context
Day 8: Poetry III
Next you will begin to develop your interpretation of poetry and examine how ambiguous language, contrasts and various other techniques can effectively add layers of meaning to a piece of poetry.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Look at the way in which punctuation and structural patterns affect poetry
Interpret paradox, irony, and juxtaposition
Learn how ambiguity can encourage multiple interpretations
Explore symbology, conceits, and allusions
Learn how proper attribution and citation aids literary analysis
Day 9: Longer Fiction & Drama III
In unit 9 you will look at longer narratives and the context in which the various techniques and interpretations that you have learned help to build a nuanced analysis of each complex work.
The various skills that you will practice include:
Explore characters and their response to a resolution within a narrative
Understand suspense, plot development, and resolution
Explore narrative inconsistencies and contrasting perspectives
Day 10: Quiz after revising the material
Full revision
Quiz