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English Literature
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Identify and anaylse the literary devices used by Shakespeare in Sonnet 29.

William Shakespeare, in Sonnet 29, uses antanaclasis to deftly explore the relationship between the religious and the secular in Jacobian England. The first two quatrains of the poem explicate the speaker...

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To what extent is Aphra Behn's 'Oronooko' a novel? Consider notions such as realism, characterisation and narrative method.

Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko proves a difficult text to place within the genre of the British novel, largely due to the way in which the text’s narrator itself overtly refutes that it is a work of ficti...

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What is juxtaposition and how is it used in a text?

Commonly juxtaposition is thought to be two things that contrast with one another in a text, however it actually means for two subjects to sit side by side in 'juxta' position, and therefore does not nece...

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How does Margaret Atwood create a sense of reality in her novel, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’?

Intro: Start with a relevant quote: ‘context is all’. We are encouraged to remember this throughout the novel. Atwood’s realism is strongly connected to the events...

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To what extent is Owen Sheer's Skirrid Hill a collection defined by separation?

Owen Sheers' Skirrid Hill is defined by separation, to a degree. Fundamentally, the Welsh title 'Skirrid Hill' foregrounds ideas about separation translating to 'shattered' and 'split'. This initial theme...

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