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            Though 20^th century postmodern ideals contend that it is the reader, not the author, who is tasked with assigning their own interpretation upon a given text, it is not always the au...

'Form' is the type of poem the poet has choosen to write in. Sonnets, ballads, dramatic monologues and dialogues, and vilanelles are all types of form with their own particular rules and conventions: the ...

I'd make sure I understood the examining body's requirements. For example, for AQA the student's answer should fulfil 4 assessment objectives: AO1 ability to read, understand and respond to texts, AO2 ana...

The Prologue is a key element in how our expectations of the outcome of the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet are handled. The Prologue, which was often delivered by an authorial character (see Gower in Pericle...

Within his novel 'The Great Gatsby', Fitzgerald presents Gatsby as an elusive character who is left a victim to the materlialist and fast-paced world of the 1920s, meaning that his life is moreover depict...