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For many English literature questions the same technique can be applied to answer them. The layout of the question will involve a specific text or poem, and then quesitons on the ffects on the reader or the writers intentions. I always use the Point Quotation Anaylsis approach. So when opening a question paper, I would first read the questions, if the question is on an unseen passage of text or poem, initially read this unseen piece through without any notes, just for meaning and just gain a general understanding of what the overall message of the text is. Then read through once again, attributing a meaning or message to each paragraph or stanza. Then for a final time read through, highlighting or underlining any rhetorical devices or techniques used, and the effects created by them, and how the voice of the writer or persona comes across in tone and mood.  Then plan out your answer (according to the question in the paper). And for every point made, a quotation must be used and the effects of the words chosen by the writer/poet analysed, why they chose those exact words, what effect the rhetorical devices have on heightening the writer's message, and relate it back to the question.