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Showing awareness of critical response to texts is an important marking criteria for English exams - showing you have considered a range of critical opinions is a brilliant way to push your essays into the n...

There are numerous ways to approach poetry. I would advise a student to start by chronologically making their way through, stanza by stanza, analysing language, imagery, metaphor. I would suggest that they f...

First of all, you need to recognise what the key themes are of the poems in isolation. For example, take the first poem and see if you can recognise any recurring imagery, like the image of a moon in the fir...

Firstly, do you need to include critical viewpoints? Is the question inviting you to read a text closely, or engage in a broader analysis of the text as a whole. If the question falls along the lines of the ...

It is important to take a little time - around 5-10 minutes depending on the length of the exam - to sketch out your argument, making sure to cover all of the AO's. Remember to include the broader historic c...