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For English Literature exams and coursework, some exam boards may include incorporation of context in their marking criteria. This is certainly the case at A Level, and perhaps to a lesser extent at GCSE....

This exam question is asking you to take a general statement and apply it to the text you have studied. It's also an opportunity to show your close reading skills and pick out interesting linguistic and s...

Jane's strong character is best seen in the context of her gender as she shows traits that trangress and push the boundaries of those expected of Victorian women. She is fiercely independent and she is fe...

Yeats wrote of Byzantium, “I symbolise the search for the spiritual life by a journey to that city”[1], and indeed, his poem reflects this quest for some form of religion. From a foundation in Christianit...

Rather than aimlessly searching through a novel looking for a quote, it is far easier to have a bank of quotes that you know well and can analyse, which can be applied to a variety of questions. To make s...