Experience + revision science + beautiful design = better results
- Over 500 marks worth of examination style questions
- Answers provided for all questions within the books
- Illustrated topics to improve memory and recall
- Examination tips and techniques
Absolute clarity is the aim with a new generation of GCSE English revision guides. This clear study guide has been expertly compiled and edited by successful authors of English revision guides, highly experienced examiners and a good dollop of scientific research into what makes revision most effective and more accessible.
Past examination questions are essential to good preparation, improving understanding and confidence. This guide has combined revision with tips and more practice questions than you could shake a stick at. All the essential ingredients for getting a grade you can be really proud of.
Each poem from the anthology is reproduced in full and with a complete summary and analysis to help students compare poems across the cluster. Exam-style questions are all specifically and carefully devised throughout this book.
Structuring your answer
Planning your answer
Writing your answer
Technical accuracy
Checking your answer
Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelly
London — William Blake
The Prelude: Stealing the Boat — William Wordsworth
My Last Duchess — Robert Browning
The Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Exposure — Wilfred Owen
Storm on the Island — Seamus Heaney
Bayonet Charge — Ted Hughes
Remains — Simon Armitage
Poppies — Jane Weir
War Photographer — Carol Ann Duffy
Tissue — Imtiaz Dharker
The Émigrée — Carol Rumens
Checking Out Me History — John Agard
Kamikaze — Beatrice Garland
