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How do you structure and analyse in a commentary ?

Structure There are multiple approaches you can take to structuring your essay overall. This can be dividing your paragraphs into themes, techniques, chronologicallyHowever, to show an examiner that you unde...
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Explain how the theme of love is presented in Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"

This is an essay question that could come up in A Level based on the syllabus' I have looked at; there is not time or space to write out the full essay here, so I have gone for three key bullet points I woul...
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With regards to at least two literary works, show how the setting both influences the characters and reflects the author's own context.

Lesson Plan:Texts: 'Translations' and 'Things Fall Apart'. Revision of political, historical and personal contexts of the texts (student and teacher): 'Translations' reflects the conflict in the 1830s betwee...
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How are ideas about power presented in Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley?

The poem reflects on abuse of power, but by dwelling on the transience of mortal existence shows that even powerful dictators must fall. Although the dictator's power seemed 'vast' at the time, he (Ozymandia...
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“City, Court or Country: a writer’s setting is always significant.” Discuss how far you agree with this view, in relation to 'The Merchant's Tale'

Setting is of great importance in The Merchant's Tale, as the majority of the the action, notably the all-important cuckolding scene, unfolds in the walled garden, a not so oblique satire of the Garden of Ed...
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