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Flashcards for Leaving Certificate English at Higher Level for the 2027 examination, following the English syllabus and the Department of Education's prescribed material for 2027. Split into the single texts, the comparative study texts and modes, the eight prescribed poets (a subdeck per poem) and the language genres. Delete or suspend the texts and poets you don't study.

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What is inside (329 subdecks)

  • Comparative study texts (2027)798 cards
    • 1984 (George Orwell)43 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Key quotations10 cards
      • Plot and structure9 cards
      • Themes10 cards
    • A Doll's House (Henrik Ibsen)26 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure7 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • A Raisin in the Sun (Lorraine Hansberry)28 cards
      • Characters9 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Key quotations2 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • Barbie (Greta Gerwig)25 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Film techniques3 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • Colder Than Here (Laura Wade)12 cards
      • Characters3 cards
      • Context2 cards
      • Plot and structure2 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Comparative modes21 cards
    • Diego Maradona (Asif Kapadia)19 cards
      • Characters3 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Film techniques3 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Elena Knows (Claudia Piñeiro)15 cards
      • Characters3 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • I'm Not Scared (Gabriele Salvatores)18 cards
      • Characters3 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Film techniques3 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Knives Out (Rian Johnson)22 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Film techniques3 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus)19 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Macbeth (William Shakespeare)73 cards
      • Characters14 cards
      • Context10 cards
      • Key quotations23 cards
      • Plot and structure16 cards
      • Themes10 cards
    • Medea (Euripides)27 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context7 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)23 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Film techniques3 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Notes from a Coma (Mike McCormack)15 cards
      • Characters4 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Once Before I Go (Phillip McMahon)14 cards
      • Characters4 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure2 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)27 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Key quotations1 cards
      • Plot and structure7 cards
      • Themes7 cards
    • Sive (John B. Keane)20 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • Small Things Like These (Claire Keegan)21 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)23 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Film techniques2 cards
      • Plot and structure5 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • The Best We Could Do (Thi Bui)14 cards
      • Characters2 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • The Cove (Ron Rash)15 cards
      • Characters4 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson)27 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Film techniques4 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)27 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Key quotations2 cards
      • Plot and structure7 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont)25 cards
      • Characters6 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Film techniques3 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • The Silence of the Girls (Pat Barker)22 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • The Spinning Heart (Donal Ryan)15 cards
      • Characters3 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)23 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Key quotations1 cards
      • Plot and structure5 cards
      • Themes5 cards
    • The Third Man (Carol Reed)24 cards
      • Characters4 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Film techniques4 cards
      • Plot and structure5 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)25 cards
      • Characters8 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)22 cards
      • Characters7 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure6 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Jeanette Winterson)17 cards
      • Characters3 cards
      • Context4 cards
      • Plot and structure4 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)38 cards
      • Characters11 cards
      • Context5 cards
      • Key quotations7 cards
      • Plot and structure7 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Young Skins (Colin Barrett)13 cards
      • Characters3 cards
      • Context3 cards
      • Plot and structure3 cards
      • Themes4 cards
  • Language and composing289 cards
    • Five language genres100 cards
      • Aesthetic use of language19 cards
      • Argument20 cards
      • Information15 cards
      • Narration26 cards
      • Persuasion20 cards
    • Rhetorical and stylistic terms114 cards
    • Text forms75 cards
      • Article12 cards
      • Diary entry3 cards
      • Discursive essay10 cards
      • Formal letter12 cards
      • Informal letter4 cards
      • Personal essay10 cards
      • Short story12 cards
      • Speech12 cards
  • Prescribed poetry (Higher Level 2027)514 cards
    • Adrienne Rich63 cards
      • About Adrienne Rich12 cards
      • Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers6 cards
      • Diving into the Wreck6 cards
      • From a Survivor4 cards
      • Living in Sin6 cards
      • Our Whole Life4 cards
      • Power6 cards
      • Storm Warnings5 cards
      • The Roofwalker4 cards
      • Trying to Talk with a Man5 cards
      • Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room5 cards
    • Derek Mahon49 cards
      • A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford6 cards
      • About Derek Mahon10 cards
      • After the Titanic5 cards
      • Antarctica4 cards
      • As It Should Be3 cards
      • Day Trip to Donegal4 cards
      • Ecclesiastes3 cards
      • Grandfather3 cards
      • Kinsale4 cards
      • Rathlin4 cards
      • The Chinese Restaurant in Portrush3 cards
    • Elizabeth Bishop65 cards
      • About Elizabeth Bishop11 cards
      • At the Fishhouses6 cards
      • Filling Station5 cards
      • First Death in Nova Scotia5 cards
      • In the Waiting Room6 cards
      • Questions of Travel4 cards
      • Sestina6 cards
      • The Armadillo6 cards
      • The Bight5 cards
      • The Fish6 cards
      • The Prodigal5 cards
    • Emily Dickinson66 cards
      • “Hope” is the thing with feathers6 cards
      • A Bird came down the Walk6 cards
      • A narrow Fellow in the Grass6 cards
      • About Emily Dickinson12 cards
      • After great pain, a formal feeling comes6 cards
      • I could bring You Jewels – had I a mind to3 cards
      • I felt a Funeral, in my Brain5 cards
      • I Heard a fly buzz – when I died6 cards
      • I taste a liquor never brewed5 cards
      • The Soul has Bandaged moments5 cards
      • There’s a certain Slant of light6 cards
    • John Donne67 cards
      • A Valediction Forbidding Mourning8 cards
      • About John Donne11 cards
      • At the round earth’s imagined corners5 cards
      • Batter my heart6 cards
      • Song: Go, and catch a falling star5 cards
      • Song: Sweetest love, I do not goe5 cards
      • The Anniversarie5 cards
      • The Dreame4 cards
      • The Flea6 cards
      • The Sunne Rising7 cards
      • Thou hast made me5 cards
    • Patrick Kavanagh63 cards
      • A Christmas Childhood5 cards
      • About Patrick Kavanagh12 cards
      • Advent4 cards
      • Canal Bank Walk5 cards
      • Epic6 cards
      • from The Great Hunger Section I7 cards
      • Inniskeen Road: July Evening5 cards
      • Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal5 cards
      • On Raglan Road6 cards
      • Shancoduff5 cards
      • The Hospital3 cards
    • Paula Meehan45 cards
      • About Paula Meehan10 cards
      • Buying Winkles3 cards
      • Cora, Auntie3 cards
      • Death of a Field4 cards
      • Hearth Lesson3 cards
      • My Father Perceived as a Vision of St. Francis4 cards
      • Prayer for the Children of Longing3 cards
      • The Exact Moment I Became a Poet3 cards
      • The Pattern3 cards
      • The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks6 cards
      • Them Ducks Died for Ireland3 cards
    • W. B. Yeats96 cards
      • About W. B. Yeats15 cards
      • An Acre of Grass5 cards
      • An Irish Airman Foresees his Death7 cards
      • Easter 19168 cards
      • from Meditations in Time of Civil War: VI, The Stare’s Nest by My Window6 cards
      • from Under Ben Bulben: V and VI5 cards
      • In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz6 cards
      • Politics4 cards
      • Sailing to Byzantium7 cards
      • September 19136 cards
      • Swift’s Epitaph5 cards
      • The Lake Isle of Innisfree7 cards
      • The Second Coming8 cards
      • The Wild Swans at Coole7 cards
  • Single text (Higher Level 2027)236 cards
    • Dracula (Bram Stoker)49 cards
      • Characters12 cards
      • Context8 cards
      • Key quotations7 cards
      • Plot and structure14 cards
      • Themes8 cards
    • Girl on an Altar (Marina Carr)22 cards
      • Characters5 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Plot and structure5 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell)29 cards
      • Characters9 cards
      • Context6 cards
      • Plot and structure8 cards
      • Themes6 cards
    • Othello (William Shakespeare)76 cards
      • Characters13 cards
      • Context9 cards
      • Key quotations28 cards
      • Plot and structure16 cards
      • Themes10 cards
    • The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)60 cards
      • Characters13 cards
      • Context8 cards
      • Key quotations17 cards
      • Plot and structure12 cards
      • Themes10 cards

Some of its cards

  • Who is the speaker of Yeats's An Irish Airman Foresees his Death?
    An Irish pilot, based on Robert Gregory, the son of Lady Gregory
  • When was The Great Gatsby published?
    1925
  • How does I'm Not Scared treat childhood and innocence?
    The story is seen through a child's eyes, as he learns about adult crime
  • A comparison of two things using like or as
    Simile
  • Who wrote Notes from a Coma?
    Mike McCormack, from County Mayo
  • Where is Ben Bulben?
    A mountain in County Sligo, near Drumcliff
  • What natural detail begins Emily Dickinson's There's a certain Slant of light?
    The slanting light of a winter afternoon
  • What situation is described in John Donne's Song: Sweetest love, I do not goe?
    The speaker is about to leave his lover for a journey
  • Who wrote Once Before I Go?
    Phillip McMahon, a Dublin playwright
  • Where was the poet Derek Mahon born?
    Belfast, in 1941

And 1827 more once you add the deck.