GCSE English – AC studies

Cracking the Code: Analysing Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Dr. Lanyon’s Narrative: how to analyse this chapter's themes and language, links with the rest of the novel and historical context.

Focusing on the Youth and Age poetry cluster from OCR's revised anthology - and how to analyse structural devices.

Understanding poetry's structure enhances interpretation and analysis, critical for achieving top GCSE grades. Here's how to do it.

The essay explores secrecy in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, analysing themes, character dynamics, key quotes and Gothic elements.

The essay compares "War Photographer" and "Poppies," highlighting their distinct expressions of inner conflict related to war.

This series explores comparative poetry essays for GCSE, focusing on "Checking Out Me History" and "Tissue".

To help your GCSE English exam preparation, here’s a roundup of our most-read revision guides...

London by William Blake and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning are fascinating poems containing some difficult themes...

Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy and Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning are two poems in the WJEC GCSE poetry anthology...

Chances are you’ve come across Tissue and The Émigrée already. These are two of the trickiest poems in the AQA anthology...