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There are several ways to select quotations to memorise for your exams. As memory space is limited, you need to make sure you select efficiently, memorising only those passages which will be useful in a vari...

Your introduction needs to briefly summarise the main points of your essay whilst catching the readers attention and making them interested in what it is you have to say. The first sentence should talk about...

For Gilbert, Owen’s conception of pity is “not merely sentimental”, but “elicits terror as well”; such terror is manifest in Owen’s frequent images of the horror of war. For instance, Mental Cases , written ...

Read the text 2 -3 times. The first read is to experience the text as intended and to jot down your first impressions, the following reads are where you get to do some critical digging! Make sure that you un...

The biggest question to ask yourself when analysing a new poem is 'why?' - why does the writer use those specific words or that literary device? What effect does that have? It is easy to spot that a poet use...