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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...

Answered by Alexandra P. English Literature tutor
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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...

Answered by Chloe F. English Literature tutor
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How do I structure an exam style answer to a question?

The best way to structure an answer to include all of the components necessary for a strong argument is by using the SEA structure which is short for: statement, evidence, analysis. So, to start the answe...

Answered by Chloe F. English Literature tutor
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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...

Answered by Miranda S. English Literature tutor
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