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Here are three possible starting points: You might first consider what the character (let's call her 'Jane') actually says in the novel, whether there are any instances of reported speech (i.e. speech in quo...

Everything you do in English should be carried out in stages to ensure that you've done it all thoroughly. ​First, when analysing an image, you need to look at the colours. Dark colours tend to represent mou...

First of all - don't panic! Read the poem through once. Then read it again, underlining any parts that stick out to you. Think about whether you can spot any figures of speech such as metaphors, similes, rep...

A metaphor is the literary technique used to compare one thing with another by saying that it is that thing. For example, Alfred Noyes's poem, 'The Highway Man', begins with three metaphors: 'The wind was a ...

Form refers to the type of text, for example novel, haiku, sonnet, that the writer has used. It is significant because the writer has deliberately chosen the form in order to best convey the themes or charac...