Struggling with your prescribed literature?
Our Literature Study Guides provide insights and analysis of themes and characters and includes guidelines for writing your exam.
a word or phrase that comes from another language, e.g. The veld (Afrikaans, meaning field) is green. The general staged a coup dâ??état. (French, meaning blow to the state).
See Shakespearean sonnet.
the form, organisation or make-up of a play.
playful rhyming verse consisting of five lines in an aabba pattern, e.g. Edward Learâ??s...
an auxiliary verb that expresses possibility or a sense of obligation, e.g. You may go. You...
a well-known saying, which is generally taken to be true and contains some kind of wisdom about...