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Unseen passages can be daunting, but they are designed as an opportunity for you to show your skills to the examiner. Try and think of them as an invitation to really engage in some close analysis of writ...

Identifying metre can be tricky, since it is sometime quite subtle. However, the easiest way to find the metre is to read the text out loud, placing additional emphasis wherever it feels natural. This wil...

When writing about long texts like novels or plays it can be difficult to keep both texts in mind while structuring a focused answer. There are two things that you need to keep in mind: keep answering the...

Choose the quotations which appeal to you the most as they are the ones you will be most passionate to discuss. Try to pick compact but dense quotations that you can analyse in more than one way. If it is...

The most important thing is clarity. At A level and GSCE, the examiner should know what you are arguing immediately; try summing up your argument in one succinct line. After that, it can be useful to outl...