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By practicing lots of past paper questions, I will make sure that you understand the necessary structure of an answer. This includes the steps needed for an introduction, the main body of the answer, includi...

With unseen poetry you aren't expected to know the context so it is all about what you can see infront of you. First read the poem to see what it is talkimg about. Then look at the form of the poem, how it i...

PQA stands for 'point, quote, analysis'. In a literary text, you may be asked to highlight the features which strenghten your essay's argument. To do so, it is best to first: 1) State the point you wish to m...

For many, difficulty can be found in judging a poem's rhythm and meter and the siginificance of it. In a line of verse rhythm is simply patterns of stresses, in that you stress some syllables and don't with ...

The key to performing close analysis of any passage of text is to look not just at what it is saying (the content), but how it is saying it. This involves identifying various devices used by the author, incl...