by melaniewp | Mar 26, 2013 | Common Entrance, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Suspense, Technical Terms, Tension, Writing
1. Long sentences – (1) writers create a list of fearful or worrying details, which creates an overwhelming, claustrophobic or intense feeling. (2) Writers build suspense by leaving the most shocking thing to the end of a long sentence.2. Short sentences –...
by melaniewp | Mar 24, 2013 | Christina Rosetti, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Literature, Model Essays, Poetry
Scroll down for the Top Grade analysis of A Birthday, by Christina Rosetti, 1809My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water’d shoot;My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with...
by melaniewp | Mar 19, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, OCR, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Brief Summary (scroll down for a top grade analysis)This poem is in the third person, summing up a man’s life from the outside. There is very little emotive language, it’s all clean and without judgement. It reads like a list of the man’s qualities,...
by melaniewp | Mar 19, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, Simon Armitage
Basic Meaning: a man talks bitterly to his ex-girlfriend, how it’s no big deal she left. He paints a vivid picture of how he thinks she must see him: like a ‘Kodiak bear’, or a ‘prince’ in an ice palace. This icy image echoes his...
by melaniewp | Mar 15, 2013 | Caliban, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Shakespeare, The Tempest
Here are all the ingredients you need to bake up a spanking essay on the character of Caliban.Essay QuestionIs Caliban an Evil Monster or A Noble Savage? Discuss.Think of yourself as a detective, or a lawyer, or a forensic expert looking for evidence to build a case....
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...
