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First I would encourage a student to consider the historical/literary/autobiographical context or literary form and techniques, among other areas of comparison, pertaining to each text. I would then ask t...

A critical commentary is a close reading of a passage of a text. You will need to explain the main features of the passage and analyse the kind of effect it creates. It can be helpful to think of a critic...

Better grades at English literature A level can be attained by hitting all the criteria for marking. Usually this involves including context- when was the text written and what was happening at the time, ...