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Compare 'A Stench of Kerosene' by Amrita Pritam and 'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy.
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'Modernist writers disturbed their readers by adopting complex and difficult new forms and styles'. To what extent has your reading of the modernists involved such a process of disturbance?
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Choose three or four poems on the theme of love. Compare the way in which the poets treat the theme highlighting similarities and differences in their content and poetic technique.
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If you were directing 'Educating Rita', how would you seek to achieve the humour for an Audience?
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