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To answer an essay question you first need to decide what the question is actually asking - pay attention to the question words (explore, discuss, to what extent, how etc) and use this to choose how to a...

One word: plan. Again three times: plan, plan, plan. When approaching an exam, it is always helpful to attempt past questions. At first these need not be timed, as past exam papers are an excellent revisi...

This is a question that I asked myself, every day, from the ages of 11 to 18. It was only really in the first year of my degree that I began to formulate an answer for myself – and that last bit is the im...

Well there are three forms of speaking in Macbeth. Iambic Pentameter (the way the nobles speak), trochaic tetrameter (how the witches speak) and prose how everyone else speaks. Prose obviously enough soun...

The first thing you need to do is read the poem, and then read it again highlighting anything that sticks out to you. You next need to think about what the theme of the poem might be. Once you have decide...