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The two main ideas that you can use in an essay are his idea of 'power behind discourse' and 'power in discourse'. He believed that social situations are shaped by power dynamics. His idea of 'power behin...

 The first way in which the reader can learn what sort of life that Lennie and George live is through the setting and places in which they travel, stay and sleep. The key setting mentioned in the first tw...

First, read who each poem is written by and when; are they all the same gender poets, is it from the same period of history? This will be your first clue as to why their themes may be similar or different...

A metaphor is a figurative language technique which describes an object, action or person by directly comparing it it to something else. Often the comparison creates a mood within the text that reflects ...

Because the texts that you can be offered in the exam can be quite varied, the golden rule of doing effective linguistic analysis is to start with the words and to not be distracted by any accompanying vi...