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With unseen poetry you aren't expected to know the context so it is all about what you can see infront of you. First read the poem to see what it is talkimg about. Then look at  the form of the poem, h...

PQA stands for 'point, quote, analysis'. In a literary text, you may be asked to highlight the features which strenghten your essay's argument. To do so, it is best to first:

1) State the...

For many, difficulty can be found in judging a poem's rhythm and meter and the siginificance of it. In a line of verse rhythm is simply patterns of stresses, in that you stress some syllables and don't...

The key to performing close analysis of any passage of text is to look not just at what it is saying (the content), but how it is saying it. This involves identifying various devices ...

The key thing to remember is that nouns are names. There are a few types of nouns but their names are often quite self explanatory which makes them fairly easy to remeber. The most important types of noun...