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When approaching the analysis of any piece of literature, it helps to divide up the task by searching for certain literary devices. I find one technique that helps me is to use different coloured highligh...

Read the text 2 -3 times. The first read is to experience the text as intended and to jot down your first impressions, the following reads are where you get to do some critical digging! Make sure that you...

Fitzgerald uses structure to successfully create dramatic tension leading up to Gatsby's first appearance, creating intense mystery around our central character. The first two chapters are utilised for th...

The biggest question to ask yourself when analysing a new poem is 'why?' - why does the writer use those specific words or that literary device? What effect does that have? It is easy to spot that a poet ...

Personification is when writers give human characteristics to anything that is non-human. For example, objects, ideas, or animals. This can have a powerful descriptive effect for the reader. For example '...