by melaniewp | Oct 20, 2015 | Frankenstein, GCSE, IGCSE, KS3, Worksheet
LOOK FOR: metaphors – personification – similes (comparing)________________ her hair was the brightest living gold________________ fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles________________ Like a mountain river, it came from small sources, but...
by melaniewp | Oct 10, 2015 | 2017, Frankenstein, GCSE, IGCSE
Michael Gove might have cruelly snatched Of Mice and Men from us, but teaching older, longer texts doesn’t have to be horrible. Here’s a super student-friendly version of Frankenstein, sensitively shortened to just over the length of Of Mice and Men, with...
by melaniewp | Oct 6, 2015 | AQA, English Literature, Frankenstein, GCSE, IGCSE, Themes
If you’re studying Frankenstein for GCSE or IGCSE, you need to make sure you don’t just re-tell the story, but also analyse the language techniques. Here are some of the major techniques Shelley uses, with examples of how to write about them to score top...
by melaniewp | Oct 2, 2015 | AQA, English Literature, Frankenstein, GCSE, IGCSE, Themes
ScienceShelley drew inspiration for the creature from recent scientific work.1. GALVANISM: Luigi Galvani’s experimented in the 1780s to 1790s using electric currents to make dead frogs move. In 1803, his nephew made a public demonstration on a criminal executed at...
by melaniewp | Jun 10, 2013 | Angela Carter, Ann Radcliffe, AQA Lit B, AQA Lit B Exam Questions, Frankenstein, Freud, Macbeth, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Welcome to the melodramatic, magnificent world of the Gothic! Discover damsels in distress, angry women, humane animals and beastly men, the natural, supernatural and the unnatural. Enjoy transformation, transgression, claustrophobia, madness and explosive...
by melaniewp | May 22, 2013 | A-Level, A2, Angela Carter, AQA Lit B, English Literature Exam, Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth, The Bloody Chamber, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Elements of the Gothic Section B exam questions for AQA Lit B A2 Written Paper:Gothic writing has been attacked as ’a species of brutality’. With reference to three texts, to what extent have you found this view to be true?‘Four hundred years of excess, horror,...
