What is the best way to study literature?

What is the best way to study literature?

Exam Preparation: How to prepare for the Literature exam

1. Read and re-read your texts.
2. Learn quotations.
3. Read around your text.
4. Talk your ideas through.
5. Go back over your own work.
6. Study style – select and scrutinise significant/striking/special sections.
7. Get to know VCAA a little better.
8. Write sample paragraphs.

How can I improve my English literature knowledge?

Here are some simple steps that you can take to improve your written English and impress people with your writing skills.

1. Expand your vocabulary. To express yourself clearly, you need a good active vocabulary.
2. Master English spelling.
3. Read regularly.
4. Improve your grammar.
5. Just do it!

Which English literature is best?

1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678)
2. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
3. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift (1726)
4. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson (1748)
5. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)
6. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1759)
7. Emma by Jane Austen (1816)

What particular websites do you usually visit to read literature?

As someone who spends literally all day on the literary web, here are my top recommendations for sites that readers and writers will adore.

• Electric Literature. This literary hub is every book-lover’s dream.
• Goodreads.
• Literary Hub.
• Book Riot.
• Catapult.
• Slaughterhouse 90210.
• The Rumpus.
• Vol.

Where do I start with English literature?

Here are some good places to start!

• Beowulf (c. 700-1000) – Anonymous.
• The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387-1400) – Geoffrey Chaucer.
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c.
• Emma (1815) – Jane Austen.
• Mary Barton (1848) – Elizabeth Gaskell.
• A Doll’s House (1879) – Henrik Ibsen.
• Selected Poems (c.
• The Bell Jar (1963) – Sylvia Plath.

How do you pass English literature?

How to revise for English Literature: a 7-step guide for GCSE and…

1. Remind yourself what you will marked on.
2. Refresh your memory with study guides.
3. Organise your notes.
4. Re-read the texts.
5. Discuss your ideas.
6. Practice past papers.
7. Review your notes.

How do I start reading English books?

7 Tips

1. The choice of book is so important.
2. Try to read in English like you do in your own language!
3. Don’t stop reading as soon as there is a word, phrase or structure that you don’t understand.
4. Don’t expect to understand everything!
5. Underline phrases, words or expressions that you don’t understand as you are reading.

What is the most read English novel?

More than 100 million copies

Book	Author(s)	First published
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone	J. K. Rowling	1997
The Little Prince	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry	1943
Dream of the Red Chamber	Cao Xueqin	18th century
And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie	1939

What is the structure in a literature Web?

The most common elements of the narrative structure are setting, plot, and theme. The parts of narrative plot include exposition (the beginning), rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. The resolution is also called the denouement.