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How should I use incorporate secondary, critical quotations into my own responses to literature?

It's important to approach the critics with a critical attitude. This means applying to the secondary material the same rigour and attention which you give to the primary material. You can do this in a few d...
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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly." - How does Ishiguro present narration in Never Let Me Go?

Engage with the quote - dealing with memory, and the unreliability of it2) Link that to the unreliability of narration in Never Let Me Go, and how far we can trust Kathy H.3) Reasons for unreliability, and w...
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What is the best way to revise for English exams?

Two Main Ways: Comprehension & Application 1) Comprehension -Involves creating organised, coherent and clear notes from which you can learn far more easily -Make these notes in whatever form suits your l...
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How does Shakespeare present aspects of love in this passage? Examine the view that, in this passage and elsewhere in the play, Desdemona is presented as a 'typically naïve young woman whose love is little more than hero worship'.

Shakespeare presents the theme of love in his plays to varying degrees. Different aspects of love are often presented through dialogue between characters; specifically the tone of language used and the impre...
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Would you agree that although E.M Forster’s novel Howard’s End is not, in any obvious sense a ‘modernist’ novel, it is certainly a novel fundamentally concerned with ‘modernity’?

Although it is not regarded as a complete modernist novel, it is clear that Forster in Howard’s End integrates obvious modernist subject matter. The novel seems to be a dichotomy between Victorian form and m...
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