Among the various question types students encounter on English Literature exams, the extract-based response is probably the most popular.
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Tag: GCSE english
What is ‘freedom’? Reading Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to find out
Poets are a hypersensitive bunch.
How to understand any speech: your guide to ethos, pathos & logos
In this post, let’s take a break from poetry and literature to look at something slightly different – rhetoric and persuasion.
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How to sock it to your oppressors: tips from two 20th century black poets
For many people, colonialism is hard to talk about.
What The Merchant of Venice tells us about racism and prejudice
This is a particularly uncomfortable time to be re-reading The Merchant of Venice.
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Why is Hamlet such a fascinating character?
In my post on Macbeth, I propose that one of the reasons for our long-standing fascination with Macbeth the character is his outsized boldness.
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