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When asked to refer to two or three poems in a question, how should we structure the essay?

You should firstly make a plan concerning the detailed points you want to present for each poem. Do any of them present the same point? If so, they can be linked together and put into one paragraph. Your ...

LH
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Explain Milton's presentation of Curley's Wife in Of Mice and Men.

Milton presents Curley's Wife as being a victim to the male dominated society in which she is imprisoned. Firstly, we never find out her real name she is consistently referred to only as 'Curley's Wife'. ...

EP
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How do I effectively analyse an unseen poem?

First, read the poem thoroughly and underline any literary techniques that you find interesting. Make sure you pick out both the concrete examples of individual words and phrases and notice the wider stru...

MK
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Explore the writers’ presentation of their protagonists struggles with identity in The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Both Lewis and Okonkwo are presented as insecure regarding their masculinity. Achebe attributes the perceived “weakness” of Okonkwo’s father as the reason for Okonkwo’s insecurities regarding his masculin...

SR
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In Scene IV of the Poker Night in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, what is the significance of the use of primary colours in the setting of the Kowlaski Apartment?

In the Scene of the Poker Night in A Streetcar Named Desire, the opening description of the living room as being romanticised by ‘primary colours’ is in stark contrast to the description of New Orleans in...

EA
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