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Literature, step by step

Analyse texts with structure. Academisolve helps you find themes, identify literary devices and back up your interpretation with evidence.

Coverage

Topics we cover

  • Theme and motif
  • Characterisation
  • Literary devices
  • Poetry analysis
  • Narrative structure
  • Comparative essays

Worked example

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Question

Identify the device in 'The wind whispered through the trees.'

  1. Step 1: Notice that a non-human subject, the wind, performs an action
  2. Step 2: Whispering is a human action
  3. Step 3: Giving human qualities to non-human things is a named device
Answer: Personification

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