6. Form and Language

Available for over a year

Writer Hollie McNish and poet Nafeesa Hamid explore the language, structure and form of Meera Syal’s coming-of-age novel Anita and Me. They’ll be helping you to prepare for your GCSE English literature exam where you’ll need to understand and write about the key themes of the book. They discuss the ways in which Syal uses language in lots of specific ways to tell the story and to make it more interesting and more effective. They explore how the author uses language and form to give meaning to the events in the novel, give emphasis to the novel’s message, and the style in which the text is written. Suitable for: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas, OCR