by melaniewp | Mar 15, 2013 | Caliban, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Shakespeare, The Tempest
Here are all the ingredients you need to bake up a spanking essay on the character of Caliban.Essay QuestionIs Caliban an Evil Monster or A Noble Savage? Discuss.Think of yourself as a detective, or a lawyer, or a forensic expert looking for evidence to build a case....
by melaniewp | Mar 15, 2013 | A View from the Bridge, Exam Essays, Extract Question, GCSE, Model Essays
How does Miller Set up Mood and Atmosphere at the Start of the A View From the Bridge? (first page and a half).The stage directions lay out the scenery of the action as a ‘street and house’. The house is ‘skeletal’ which implies that in this community nothing can be...
by melaniewp | Mar 15, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Poetry, Technical Terms
STRUCTUREstanza: like a ‘paragraph’ in a poem. Stanzas are separated by a line break. They may be regular, e.g. the same number of lines per stanza. Or irregular – broken up seemingly at random.regular poem = regular sized stanzas and/or regular line length...
by melaniewp | Mar 14, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Of Mice and Men, OMAM Essays
ATeacherWrites.comThe extract question is either 20 minutes (WJEC), or 60 (AQA), depending on which exam board you’re taking. A lot of students opt for this, but what should you write?The answer below was written for the 20 minute extract question for WJEC. If I...
by melaniewp | Mar 14, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage
SummaryIn this poem, Armitage explores an incident when he had his ear pierced as a teenager, and his father’s shocked reaction to it. This poem is about coming of age, asserting your own identity, and seems to show he has a bad relationship with his father....
