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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...

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...

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...

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...

In exam conditions the poem should be analysed first through the vectors of form and content. Form asks questions about cadence, rhythm, timbre - in this discussion we should find the sibilance (which is ...