English Resources (page 70)

I chose to construct both of my pieces for entirely different reasons. My first, 'No rest for the wicked', was written purely because I enjoy both watching and reading Alan Bennett mo...

Set in countries recovering from the devastation wrought by the Second World War, both Yasunari Kawabata's novella "Thousand Cranes" and Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "Aunt Julia and the...

The idea of 'confession' is one that is bound up with images of religion, sexuality, torture and justice. It is a term that conjures both the threat to reveal our darkest secrets, and...

If you were to contact me to inquire about lessons, for example EFL lessons, this is how you might expect things to go. You could expect half of each lesson to be conversation betw...

The late diarist who wrote this account of his boyhood insisted on anonymity and posthumous publication has done a wonderful service for anyone who is at all inquisiti...

In recent years vampire fiction has become one of the most popular genres for teen and young adult readers,with novels and television programmes such as True Blood, Interview with a...

The boundary fence by which the children discover Gemmy Fairley is an introduction to the prominent motif of margins and boundaries that runs the course of the novel. The initial ref...

Examine two or three examples of one of the following forms to illustrate its main features: ballad, sonnet, elegy, couplets, blank verse, free verse. How does the form relate to the ...

The obvious cause of the culminating deaths at the end of the play would appear to be jealousy. This, however, is a superficial assumption as there are many other emotions that help d...

Many schools report that the six week summer holiday is too long for some children, who forget some of what they have learned during the previous year. It is quite common to find t...