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What is the difference between form and structure?

When analysing a text, especially a poem, it is a good idea to identify the form and structure of the text as part of your answer as it shows you understand the writer's methods (hitting assessment objective...
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What is a good way to annotate a poem?

Well annotating poems can actually be simpler if you do it in stages, to begin with a good trick in understanding a poem is always to read it out loud, paying attention to the specific punctuation used, then...
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Is 'Measure for Measure' a play which condemns excessive virtue as much as it does excessive vice?

Angelo and Lucio have very similar trials, are both accused of sexual crimes. Their crimes are paralleled and their punishments are too. These are two characters who are excessive in their respective virtue ...
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What does Macbeth mean when he says he will turn 'the multitudinous seas incarnadine' - Act 2, Scene 2?

Macbeth: Whence is that knocking?How is't with me, when every noise appalls me?What hands are here? Hah! They pluck out mine eyes.Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this bloodClean from my hand? No; this my...
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What the significance of the presentation and description of Curly's Wife in Of Mice and Men?

Curley's wife is presented as lesser than the other characters, most notably through the lack of her own name. She is always referred to in relation to Curley, implying she has no identity outside of her mar...
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