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My preferred way to go about structuring a comparative essay (an essay which asks you to compare aspects from two or more texts) is called the "ping-pong approach", because essentially what you ...

The best way to prepare for an unseen poetry question is to familiarise yourself with common themes, as well as linguistic and structural devices, that you will be able to recognise in any poem you are fa...

The first thing to prioritise in approaching an unseen piece is to understand what is actually happening in the text at a more basic level, identifying key events and characters. After establishing this, ...

Enlightenment Literature was heavily indebted to the contemporary trends in philosophical and scientific thinking: as such, it emphasised logical and rational discourse, as a way of understanding the w...

Revising for an English exam is difficult as there isn’t a simple list of facts or formulas to memorise and being creative within a time limit is tough. However, being prepared for the exam and knowing wh...