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The idea of an unseen poem in an exam setting can be extremely unnerving- but if you set yourself up to feel comfortable reading and analysing poems you haven't studied before, you will have the tools to ...

Paper 1 is an unseen commentary paper. It can seem tricky at first but once you get the hang of it you can do very well on this paper!  I think its helpful to have a formula of how to answer these questio...

Exaggeration simply means going over the top. An example is when you are waiting for your friend, and you've been waiting 5 minutes, but you say to him: 'I've been waiting for like half an hour!'

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Seamus Heaney utilises nature frequently in his poems as a vehicle for wider themes. Heaney typically refers to the nature that surrounded him as a child, using the memory of his surroundings to explore e...

When you have invested a lot of time and energy into your revision, it is understandable that you want to convey this to your examiner. The way to do this is not, however, by setting down as much informat...