Overview
Each book in the Study & Revise series is designed as a year-round course companion to instill in-depth textual understanding. By the end of each book, students will have developed their understanding of plot, characterization, themes and language.
Written by experienced teachers and examiners, the books contain targeted advice on planning and structuring a successful essay, detailed commentary and contextual information, and thought-provoking questions that encourage students to form their own responses for building critical and analytical skills.
Using this guide
Introduction
1. Synopsis
2. Scene summaries and commentaries
3. Themes
4. Characters
5. Writer's methods: form, structure and language
6. Contexts
7. Working with the text
Assessment Objectives and skills
Building skills 1: Structuring your writing
Building skills 2: Analysing texts in detail
Top ten quotations
Taking it further
Author and series editor Nicola Onyett is Chief Examiner for English Literature for a major examination board and has extensive experience of teaching at GCSE, AS, A2 and university level. She is an editor of The English Review.