by melaniewp | Apr 2, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Pike, Poetry, Ted Hughes
Scroll down for the TOP grade essay on ‘Pike’, below the poem.PikePike, three inches long, perfectPike in all parts, green tigering the gold.Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.They dance on the surface among the flies.Or move, stunned by their...
by melaniewp | Apr 2, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Old Age Gets Up, Poetry, Ted Hughes
How does the writer use language to get across the theme of the poem?Old Age Gets UpStirs its ashes and embers, its burnt sticks An eye powdered over, half melted and solid again Ponders Ideas that collapse At the first touch of attention The light at the window, so...
by melaniewp | Apr 1, 2013 | 11+, Common Entrance, Creative Writing, Describing Words, GCSE, IGCSE, KS2, KS3, SATs KS2, Sensory Language, Verbs, Vocabulary, Writing
If you want to write a story with more interesting description, try this – from age 8 to age 18. Sometimes a thesaurus is too big, too hard to use and you don’t know what word you’re looking for anyway. This sheet is for inspiration for stories....
by melaniewp | Mar 30, 2013 | A-Level, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Literature, Love, Model Essays, Poetry, Shakespeare, Sonnets
Sonnet 116Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed mark (5)That looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is...
by melaniewp | Mar 28, 2013 | Controlled Assessment, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Mercutio, Poetry, Queen Mab, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare
This is a task I set for a student. I asked her to compare Mercutio’s ‘Queen Mab’ speech from Romeo and Juliet with Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130.The question was: Explore how love is presented in both texts.The reason this is evil is because one is...
by melaniewp | Mar 28, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Literature, Model Essays, Poetry, The City Planners, The Planners
The Poems analysed are: The City Planners, Margaret Atwood and The Planners, Boey Kim Cheng. These are taken from the IGCSE Cambridge Poetry Anthology, but may be interesting for unseen poetry too.Question SetHow do these poets use language and structure to get across...
