by melaniewp | May 30, 2013 | Conflict, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare, Violence
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare portrays love blossoming in the midst of violent conflict at the centre of the feud. The connection is not coincidental; it is essential. This antithesis builds tension, as the Chorus sets up a ‘fearful’, ‘fatal’, ‘death-marked mood’,...
by melaniewp | May 27, 2013 | A-Level English, AQA Lit B, English Language Exam, English Literature Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Rhetoric, Technical Terms, Vocabulary
Get the genius list of language techniques that writers use – also known as rhetoric. Please use with caution! The list is an advanced one for above-A* grades, A-level and University Level. Get a simpler list here for the GCSE language exam, to...
by melaniewp | May 27, 2013 | A-Level English, English Language Exam, English Literature Exam, GCSE, IGCSE, Technical Terms
N.B. Use this list with extreme caution. You need to analyse meanings, effect, impressions on the reader of the content/context – DO NOT just feature spot.*Alliteration: The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of...
by melaniewp | May 22, 2013 | Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas, Edexcel Language Anthology, English Literature Exam, GCSE, IGCSE
‘Do Not Go Gentle’ takes death as its topic and through this explores the issue of what makes a good life. The tone, and attitude of the poet are strikingly unusual though. This is no gentle, melancholy mood.The title, and refrain ‘Do Not’ are in the...
by melaniewp | May 22, 2013 | A-Level English, A2, AQA Lit B, Ego, English Literature Exam, Freud, GCSE, Id, Jekyll and Hyde, Macbeth, Something Interesting, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Sigmund Freud 1856-1939, was one of the first psychologists – writing about how we think, and why. His ideas give us an interesting way of understanding literature. His theory of the Id, the Ego and the Superego, from his essay, ‘Beyond the...
by melaniewp | May 21, 2013 | Convergence of the Twain, English Language Exam, GCSE, OCR, Simon Armitage
‘The Convergence of the Twain’ stops time – immediately after the collapse of the twin towers on 9/11. It begins in strange silence, with airy, elegantly formal language – ‘architecture of air’, the alliteration emphasising the open...
