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First and foremost, you must read the entire text. As you go through the text, you should think about any devices the author is using, for example pathetic fallacy, periphrasis, and foreshadowing. You ...

For the best grades you must approach poems based on effect rather than technique. Firstly, just read the poem, do not analyse it, just take it in and see what thoughts it provokes in you. Then go through...

Know your texts. It is better to remember fewer texts, but in greater detail. This prevents you from trying to create links when there are none. In an exam you should barely have to improvise. If you have...

The best way to approach Shakespeare is to read a synopsis first. Understand the plot of the play before you begin reading it. This way you focus on understanding the language as you read the play and can...

A critical analysis is a description of what you, the reader, understand from the text. This shouldn't be from context you have researched or analysis of hypothesis posed by secondary critics, rather i...