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The Big 5

At the heart of the English Language and Literature course is textual analysis. In order to prepare for Paper 1 and the individual oral commentary, you will want to learn how to analyze various texts. This lesson introduces you to a method of analysis that we call the 'Big 5'. It presents five lenses through which you can look at texts. Since not all texts are the same in nature, you will find some lenses more useful...


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