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Under high-stress conditions, such as an exam, the most important thing is not to rush in and panic. Read the poem all the way through once or twice without making any annotations. Once you feel that you ...

Pride is used as a theme in Antigone throughout the play, and in many ways it is the central theme. Despite the fact that the eponymous character Antigone can be viewed as the tragic her...

For the purpose of my explanation, I will use this sample essay question taken from the OCR F663 June 2013 paper: 

"Gloucester is no less than a tragic figure than his king" By ...

This is a very important skill - for GCSE, above and below! 

The first stage is to read the poem at least twice, first just going over it, and the second time underlining or highlighting ...

The best method would be to follow the PEA technique. PEA stands for:
POINT
EVIDENCE
​ANALYSIS

First make a point about the given text. Then provide evidence by quoting ...