IGCSE Literature (English) 0427 (US) Paper 2 Specimen Exams 2025/2026 with Verified Questions and Expert Model Answers
Cambridge IGCSE™
LITERATURE (ENGLISH) (US) 0427/01
Paper 1 Poetry and Prose October/November 2022
1 hour 30 minutes
You must answer on the enclosed answer booklet.
* 1 7 6 1 1 0 5 4 1 3 *
You will need: Answer booklet (enclosed)
INSTRUCTIONS
● Answer two questions in total:
Section A: answer one question.
Section B: answer one question.
● Follow the instructions on the front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper,
ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet.
INFORMATION
● The total mark for this paper is 50.
● All questions are worth equal marks.
This document has 16 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.
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SECTION A: POETRY
Answer one question from this section.
ROBERT FROST: The Robert Frost Collection
Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.
Either 1 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
“Out, Out—”
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
Content removed due to copyright restrictions.
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
Explore the ways in which Frost makes this such a moving poem.
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Or 2 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
After Apple-Picking
My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Content removed due to copyright restrictions.
Or just some human sleep.
How does Frost use words and images to striking effect in this poem?
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Songs of Ourselves Volume 2: from Part 1
Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
Father Returning Home
My father travels on the late evening train
Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light
Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes
His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat
Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books 5
Is falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him getting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
He hurries across the length of the grey platform, 10
Crosses the railway line, enters the lane,
His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward.
Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,
Eating a stale chapati, reading a book.
He goes into the toilet to contemplate 15
Man’s estrangement from a man-made world.
Coming out he trembles at the sink,
The cold water running over his brown hands,
A few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists.
His sullen children have often refused to share 20
Jokes and secrets with him. He will now go to sleep
Listening to the static on the radio, dreaming
Of his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking
Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass.
(by Dilip Chitre)
How does Chitre make this such a moving poem?
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2025/2026
Cambridge IGCSE™
LITERATURE (ENGLISH) (US) 0427/01
Paper 1 Poetry and Prose October/November 2022
1 hour 30 minutes
You must answer on the enclosed answer booklet.
* 1 7 6 1 1 0 5 4 1 3 *
You will need: Answer booklet (enclosed)
INSTRUCTIONS
● Answer two questions in total:
Section A: answer one question.
Section B: answer one question.
● Follow the instructions on the front cover of the answer booklet. If you need additional answer paper,
ask the invigilator for a continuation booklet.
INFORMATION
● The total mark for this paper is 50.
● All questions are worth equal marks.
This document has 16 pages. Any blank pages are indicated.
DC (RCL (DF)) 302876/1
© UCLES 2022 [Turn over
2025/2026
,IGCSE Literature (English) 0427 (US) Paper 2 Specimen Exams 2025/2026 with Verified Questions and Expert Model Answers
2
SECTION A: POETRY
Answer one question from this section.
ROBERT FROST: The Robert Frost Collection
Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.
Either 1 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
“Out, Out—”
The buzz-saw snarled and rattled in the yard
Content removed due to copyright restrictions.
Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.
Explore the ways in which Frost makes this such a moving poem.
© UCLES 2022 0427/01/O/N/22
2025/2026
,IGCSE Literature (English) 0427 (US) Paper 2 Specimen Exams 2025/2026 with Verified Questions and Expert Model Answers
3
Or 2 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
After Apple-Picking
My long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree
Content removed due to copyright restrictions.
Or just some human sleep.
How does Frost use words and images to striking effect in this poem?
© UCLES 2022 0427/01/O/N/22 [Turn over
2025/2026
, IGCSE Literature (English) 0427 (US) Paper 2 Specimen Exams 2025/2026 with Verified Questions and Expert Model Answers
4
Songs of Ourselves Volume 2: from Part 1
Remember to support your ideas with details from the writing.
Either 3 Read this poem, and then answer the question that follows it:
Father Returning Home
My father travels on the late evening train
Standing among silent commuters in the yellow light
Suburbs slide past his unseeing eyes
His shirt and pants are soggy and his black raincoat
Stained with mud and his bag stuffed with books 5
Is falling apart. His eyes dimmed by age
fade homeward through the humid monsoon night.
Now I can see him getting off the train
Like a word dropped from a long sentence.
He hurries across the length of the grey platform, 10
Crosses the railway line, enters the lane,
His chappals are sticky with mud, but he hurries onward.
Home again, I see him drinking weak tea,
Eating a stale chapati, reading a book.
He goes into the toilet to contemplate 15
Man’s estrangement from a man-made world.
Coming out he trembles at the sink,
The cold water running over his brown hands,
A few droplets cling to the greying hairs on his wrists.
His sullen children have often refused to share 20
Jokes and secrets with him. He will now go to sleep
Listening to the static on the radio, dreaming
Of his ancestors and grandchildren, thinking
Of nomads entering a subcontinent through a narrow pass.
(by Dilip Chitre)
How does Chitre make this such a moving poem?
© UCLES 2022 0427/01/O/N/22
2025/2026
