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
Extended commentaries
Top ten quotations
Taking it further
Anne Crow is an examiner at both AS and A2. She has had more than 30 years’ experience in teaching A-level English, 25 of them at Havant College in Hampshire. She is also the author of Philip Allan Resource Packs and Student Text Guides on Jane Eyre and Doctor Faustus.