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In Act 5 Scene 1, Shakespeare presents Lady Macbeth sleep walking and talking aloud about the murder of Duncan. Her speech is often fragmented, incoherent and puzzling to the audience, and the Doctor and ...

Assonance is a literary term that describes the repetition of sounds in words that do not rhyme. Assonance is very effective in: 1) Making a phrase memorable. The catchphrase 'nice as pie' is easy to reme...

Discussing the context in which a literary work was written is essential if you wish to access the top grades at A-Level, however this can be notoriously difficult to do well. It is important that your co...

An important thing to remember when answering questions on 'effect' is that you represent the writer's audience. This means you can analyse your own reaction to the writing; you are the reader, so you can...

In the poem 'Up-Hill', it is never explicitly mentioned that this "road up-hill" is to Heaven, but the presence of an anonymous voice, answering all of the speaker's questions, certainly has an ...