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You should always begin your Critical Essay with an introduction. This should refer to the question in your own words and prepare the reader for the argument that you are going to make in the following pa...

Firstly, before approaching the poem, note down the form of the poem, including the number of stanzas, the number of lines in the stanza and the rhyme scheme (if there is one). It is then important to re-...

At first thought, the difference between form and structure can seem very fine, and it may be that at times they overlap, but there is certainly a difference. Form is concerned with ideas of genre that su...

In most cases, an essay question is asking you to debate a certain topic. For example, if you were to study Doctor Faustus, a question-title may be "Does Marlowe present Faustus as a character with w...

A key part of A-level English Literature is understanding the context of texts. We should note that when we are reading something, what we are reading is very often inseparable from a network of ideas and...