by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Poetry, Sensory Language, Technical Terms
What is sensory langauge?It’s description that appeals to the five senses in a noticeable way.e.g.Images flashed at the front of the room: smashed up forests smouldering, hillsides washed away in swirling brown mud, seabirds flapping in oil, flames sweeping across...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, KS3, Sensory Language, Setting
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad Context: The main character, Marlow, is travelling into a remote part of the Congo to recover an employee of his company, Kurtz, who has ‘gone native’. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization (of...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | Animal Farm, Common Entrance, Corruption of Ideals, GCSE, KS3, Model Essays
How does Orwell use the different characters and structure of the book to portray the corruption of ideals in Animal Farm?Orwell originally titled the novel ‘Animal Farm: A Fairy Story’. It can also be described as a fable as it is a morality tale where...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | Animal Farm, Exam Essays, GCSE, Model Essays, Napoleon, OCR, Snowball
Compare the ways Orwell portrays Snowball and Napoleon: A – A* grade Model EssaySnowball and Napoleon are the two leaders who compete for power in the early to mid-section of Animal Farm. The two pigs emerge as the leaders of this apparently egalitarian society...
by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | A Mother in a Refugee Camp, Carol Ann Duffy, Chinua Achebe, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, War Photogapher
Comparison of ‘Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe and ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy.It’s interesting how closely Duffy’s poem echoes the themes of the non-fiction text A Passage to Africa.Words like ‘tenderness’ juxtaposed with ‘soon’...
