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At A-Level, examiners want you to be able to use your quotation as a springboard for critical and contextual discussion. For this reason, an effective strategy when memorising quotations is to pair each o...

Your introduction should always be a few sentences long, and should address the question directly. A good example of a question is 'How does Shakespeare present the theme of ambition in Macbeth?'Fo...

The first stage is to decide on 3/4 major points that you will be writing about. These points can each be focusing on a character or a different theme, as long as each point is unique and adds to the over...

Firstly, Shakespeare and Eliot convey a similar struggle for identity as a response to crisis, leading one to become deeply disillusioned with the natural order of society around them. Both works highligh...

When you’re facing an unseen poem in an exam, the idea of reading, understanding and analysing it in such a short period of time can seem daunting. Before you even read the poem, it is useful to highlight...