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 | Mar 17, 2014 | English Literature GCSE, GCSE, IGCSE, love in Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo characterisation
Analyse the language and consider the type of the Petrarchan lover. Find an article about this here. This extract is from Act 1, Scene 1. It is the first time that we meet Romeo.BENVOLIO Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,Should be so tyrannous and rough...
by melaniewp | Feb 17, 2014 | AQA Controlled Assessment Creative Writing, Creative Writing, GCSE, IGCSE, Story Structure
Choose a location you’d find interesting like a tropical jungle, a city, ancient ruins or a mountain. Create two characters who would have a good reason to go there and make them hate each other for some reason. Think what they’re looking for, or being chased by; then...
by melaniewp | Feb 16, 2014 | 11 plus, 11+, Common Entrance, Complex Vocabulary, English Language, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, Learning Vocabulary, Vocabulary
rigid adj stiffindecision noun inability to decideingratitude noun not-grateful(ness)portray verb to show, depictresidue noun stuff left over, what remainsanew adv afreshsolemn adj seriousreluctant adj not keen (to do something)wanly adv palely (i.e. not...
by melaniewp | Feb 11, 2014 | Analysis, Edexcel Anthology, Edexcel IGCSE English, GCSE, IGCSE, Poetry Analysis, Tiger Tiger, Tyger Tyger, William Blake
Get an A* analysis of William Blake’s poem ‘The Tiger’ (‘The Tyger’) below the full text of the poem.TIGER, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant...
