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One of the most common things your teachers will say to you in preparing for your English Literature exam is to make sure you write a plan. Personally I always used to ignore this advice because I thought I ...

To find key themes in poetry and prose you should revise the content of the text in order to group similar events or similar words. For example, you would find a lexical set of greed in Seamus Heaney's 'Blac...

As you approach a poem you should consider dividing your analysis into different sections such as form, structure and language. To begin, you should try to understand the content to an extent and then take a...

This is a cubic curve because the highest power to which x is being raised is 3. Cubic curves with addition x^2 and x terms often have a distinctive shape - sort of like a capital 'N' drawn using curves. So,...

Firstly, practice practice practice! The more essays you practice writing to the time constraints of your exam, the more of an idea you'll have as to how much you should be aiming to write on exam day. You'l...