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Awaken English provides comprehensive resources for studying Lord Byron's poem On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year. Targeted at GCSE, IGCSE, and A Level students, these materials include lesson plans, revision notes, and analysis of themes such as mortality and legacy, enhancing understanding of Byron’s reflective work and its context.
These study guides for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale are designed for Pearson Edexcel A Level English Literature students. They enhance understanding of themes, improve analytical skills, and refine exam techniques. The resources support essay writing, critical interpretations, and comparative analyses, ensuring students excel in their studies.
The content reviews the novel's chapters, focusing on Kambili's tumultuous family life under her father's strict authority. It explores themes of fear, cultural identity, emotional repression, and the impact of domestic violence. The narrative contrasts oppressive home life with the freedom found at Aunty Ifeoma's, culminating in Kambili's gradual assertion of independence and hope.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus addresses themes of family, freedom, oppression, and cultural identity. Engaging essay questions encourage critical analysis of the novel’s complexities, including topics like silence, religious influence, generational conflict, and power dynamics. These prompts enhance understanding for students and literature enthusiasts alike. Start exploring today!
Theorists for Language Change J Aitchison’s Potential, Diffusion, Implementation & Codification Model 1. Potential – there is an internal weakness or an external pressure for a particular change 2. Diffusion – the change starts to spread through the population 3. Implementation – people start using the variant – it is incorporated into people’s idiolect – [...]
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Use this tool to prepare for potential and past paper essay questions for English Literature Poems of the Decade and see which texts and themes have appeared in recent years for examinations. Useful revision tools for 9ET0 and WET0 specifications alike. Subscriber Content 8ET03 Poems of the Decade Past Paper Questions 24 marks June 2016 [...]
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Texts you may be interested in to explore further the concepts we are covering in class. Useful for stretching and challenging your understanding to a deeper level. Beal, J. C. (2010). An Introduction to Regional Englishes: Dialect Variation in England. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Hughes, A., Trudgill, P. & Watt, D. (2012). English Accents and Dialects: An [...]
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