This textbook prepares students for the following CIE Advanced Subsidiary AS Level international syllabuses: 1. English Language 8695 , 2. Literature in English 8693 , 3. Language and Literature in English 9695 . The language section is divided into two parts: passages for comment and composition, with directed-writing tasks and exemplar answers. The literature section analyses skills for the study of poetry and prose and explores structure and form in drama, ranging from Shakespeare to Doris Lessing and Arundhati Roy.