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Flashcards for South Africa NSC Grade 12 English Home Language, split into Language in context, Literature and Writing. Literature has a subdeck for every prescribed poem, novel and drama on the DBE list for the 2025 to 2027 examinations, each with plot, characters, themes, context and key quotations.

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What is inside (68 subdecks)

  • Language in context638 cards
    • 1. Reading and critical language awareness97 cards
      • 1. Comprehension and inference84 cards
      • 2. Summary skills13 cards
    • 2. Advertising and visual texts122 cards
      • 1. Advertising81 cards
      • 2. Cartoons and comic strips41 cards
    • 3. Language structures and conventions419 cards
      • 1. Parts of speech46 cards
      • 2. Verbs, tense, voice and speech69 cards
      • 3. Clauses and sentences119 cards
      • 4. Punctuation46 cards
      • 5. Commonly confused words and spelling65 cards
      • 6. Figures of speech74 cards
  • Literature627 cards
    • 01 Sonnet 130 (poem)13 cards
    • 02 The child who was shot dead by soldiers in Nyanga (poem)12 cards
    • 03 At a Funeral (poem)5 cards
    • 04 Poem of Return (poem)6 cards
    • 05 Talk to the Peach Tree (poem)7 cards
    • 06 Prayer to Masks (poem)10 cards
    • 07 This Winter Coming (poem)6 cards
    • 08 Solitude (poem)11 cards
    • 09 The Morning Sun is Shining (poem)6 cards
    • 10 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free (poem)12 cards
    • 11 Fern Hill (poem)12 cards
    • 12 The Shipwreck (poem)5 cards
    • 13 Life of Pi (novel)79 cards
      • 1. Plot36 cards
      • 2. Characters16 cards
      • 3. Themes and ideas14 cards
      • 4. Context6 cards
      • 5. Key quotations7 cards
    • 14 The Picture of Dorian Gray (novel)73 cards
      • 1. Plot24 cards
      • 2. Characters11 cards
      • 3. Themes and ideas14 cards
      • 4. Context8 cards
      • 5. Key quotations16 cards
    • 15 Othello (drama)85 cards
      • 1. Plot26 cards
      • 2. Characters18 cards
      • 3. Themes and ideas14 cards
      • 4. Context6 cards
      • 5. Key quotations21 cards
    • 16 The Crucible (drama)80 cards
      • 1. Plot26 cards
      • 2. Characters19 cards
      • 3. Themes and ideas15 cards
      • 4. Context8 cards
      • 5. Key quotations12 cards
    • 17 Hamlet (drama)90 cards
      • 1. Plot29 cards
      • 2. Characters15 cards
      • 3. Themes and ideas15 cards
      • 4. Context7 cards
      • 5. Key quotations24 cards
    • 18 Literary terms for essays (all texts)115 cards
      • 1. Poetry42 cards
      • 2. Novels and drama73 cards
  • Writing112 cards
    • 1. Transactional writing76 cards
      • 1. Formal letters and email18 cards
      • 2. Informal and personal texts13 cards
      • 3. Meetings and reports17 cards
      • 4. Speeches, obituaries, reviews and interviews28 cards
    • 2. Creative and discursive essays36 cards
      • 1. Essay types36 cards

Some of its cards

  • Noun
    A word that names a person, place, thing or idea
  • Summary
    A shortened version of a text that keeps only its main points in fewer words
  • What is a narrative essay?
    A story with characters, a setting, a conflict and a resolution
  • What register does an informal letter to a friend use?
    Conversational, with contractions, slang and personal news
  • In which period was Othello written?
    Around 1603 to 1604, in the reign of James I
  • Who wrote "The Shipwreck"?
    Emily Dickinson
  • What is a central theme of Life of Pi?
    The relationship between faith and reason
  • A group of lines in a poem, set apart from the next by a space
    Stanza
  • What features does a speech have?
    A greeting to the audience, a clear structure, rhetorical devices and a memorable closing
  • Who wrote Hamlet?
    William Shakespeare

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