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Fundamentally, this idea that British standard English as 'superior' is inherently flawed despite the quantity of theories, namely Kachru and Strevens, who imply that the root of English can be traced back t...

Shakespeare challenges gender roles in Macbeth through the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Macbeth is seen to be ambitious and “o’erleap[ing]”, but Shakespeare develops the character of his wife in a...

First, remember that this exam question is the hardest and, across both papers, is only worth 8 marks from the 160 on offer. So don’t panic too much! You’ll have many other opportunities to pick up marks. Se...

I never wanted to be here in the first place. After two trains, three buses and hours of car journey we find ourselves in the middle of nowhere. Yesterday we arrived late evening and the whole family was in ...

Tennyson effectively manipulates meter in the stanza's first two lines- the weight of the triple stressed plosives rushing into an anapaestic foot before suddenly crashing to a halt in the two slower iambs a...