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English Literature
A Level

Pick a passage of unknown prose and the supporting extracts. Discuss its meanings, themes and any other relevant texts you have encountered.

This answer can be broken down into two parts; the extracts themselves and the common themes within the genre. We can therefore plan the answer in a similar structure.1) The extracts-- Th...

Answered by Hannah N. English Literature tutor
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Write about the ways Browning tells the story in 'My Last Duchess'.

'My Last Duchess' is written in the form of a first person narration, of an arrogant and callous Duke who tours an unknown guest around his gallery. The tone of the narration is aristocratic and detached....

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Write a critical appreciation of this extract from 'The Castle of Otranto', relating your discussion to your reading of the Gothic.

The idea of pursuit is explored through the plot in terms of narrative style as well as the progressing sentence structure. Walpole employs the use of an omniscient narrator in order to distance readers f...

Answered by Isla P. English Literature tutor
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Explore the ways that parent-child relationships are used in William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Begin by determining: what are the major parent-child relationships within the text? Student might answer: Hamlet and the Ghost Hamlet and Gertrude Ophelia and Polonius Laertes and Polonius Continue by w...

Answered by Sarah J. English Literature tutor
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How am I supposed to improve my ability to think of quotes on the spot when doing timed exams?

In-depth character and theme revision will help you to memorise some key quotes, and over time, more universal/overarching quotes will start to become more prevalent in your revision, and these should bec...

Answered by Baraka M. English Literature tutor
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