by melaniewp | Apr 30, 2013 | A Mother in a Refugee Camp, Carol Ann Duffy, Chinua Achebe, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, War Photogapher
Comparison of ‘Mother in a Refugee Camp’ by Chinua Achebe and ‘War Photographer’ by Carol Ann Duffy.It’s interesting how closely Duffy’s poem echoes the themes of the non-fiction text A Passage to Africa.Words like ‘tenderness’ juxtaposed with ‘soon’...
by melaniewp | Apr 25, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Ozymandias, Poetry, Romantics, Shelley, Sonnets
What do we learn about the character of Ozymandias in this poem?Shelley’s sonnet shows us the great ‘antique’ emperor ‘Ozymandias’ from three different points of view: that of the ‘travellor’, the ‘sculptor’ and the ruler himself, whom we encounter in direct speech in...
by melaniewp | Apr 24, 2013 | Carol Ann Duffy, Exam Essays, GCSE, Havisham, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry
Essay Question Set:Explore how relationships are presented in Havisham.In Havisham, we see love gone wrong. Carol Ann Duffy re-imagines Dicken’s eternal Spinster in this dramatic first person monologue where Miss Havisham makes exclamations –...
by melaniewp | Apr 23, 2013 | A Passage to Africa, Edexcel Language Anthology, Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays
Brace yourself! It’s a grim text and the essay’s equally grim…How does George Alagiah create a sense of pity in this extract?In this extract, Alagiah creates a sense of pity through emotive language in lists and rules of three to create a sense...
by melaniewp | Apr 22, 2013 | Exam Essays, GCSE, IGCSE, Model Essays, Of Mice and Men, OMAM Essays
ATeacherWrites.comOf Mice and Men is a great American novel that deals with the American Dream and the trauma of the Great Depression. The location is Salinas, California, an agricultural area full of migrant workers. Steinbeck depicts the place, and the lifestyle in...
by melaniewp | Apr 21, 2013 | Cambridge, Exam Essays, IGCSE, Model Essays, Poetry, Summer Farm, The Cockroach
Question set:Explore how both poems deal with the theme of Identity.It’s hard to figure out what is meant by the word ‘identity’, but it can be summed up in these poems as ‘thinking about the meaning of life, sense of self, life as a journey,...
