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....
by melaniewp | Mar 13, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Mark Schemes, Revision
1. Start early. It gives you more time to fill in the gaps.2. A revision checklist is essential. Some teachers give these out. If yours don’t, find out the code of the exam you’re taking. Ask your class teacher for this. Go to...
by melaniewp | Mar 12, 2013 | Common Entrance, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Vocabulary
vivid = lifelike, very real, potent (strong)tension, suspense = building up a feeling that something is going to happenominous, foreboding = feeling, or mood, that something bad is going to happento portray = show, e.g. in what way does Steinbeck portray Curley’s...
