How to ...

Interactive Pages

Interactive Word List

Interactive Biography Chart

Interactive Literary Analysis Guide

Interactive Timeline of Key Events

Interactive Division into Sections Table

Step by Step Guides 

How to Analyze and Discuss Main Literary Works

General Introduction

How to ... Discuss 

an Author's Life and Work

• Biography Chart
• Useful Expressions for the Biography Chart

How to Analyse and Discuss 

Historical and Literary Context

Titles of Main Works

Sources of Inspiration

Circumstances of Publication

Structure and Plot

POV (Point of view, Narrator)

Characters

Setting (in Time, in Place)

Narrative Techniques

Themes/ Symbols

How to ... Identify

a Byronic Hero

a Figure of Speech

• Allegory
• Alliteration
• Anaphora
  
• Conceit
• Consonance
  
• Litote
• Metaphor
• Oxymoron
• Personification
  
• Simile

How to ... Deal with Grammar

Maps

How to ... Report on a Novel

How to ... Analyze a narrative Text (excerpt)

• Division into sections

Map to ... Analyze a Poetic Text (excerpt)

• Division into sections

How to Analyze a Poem (or excerpt)