Scoring good marks in English Literature demands a bit of hard as well as smart work. The hard work is before the examination. You should have a sound understanding of all the topics that are scheduled for your upcoming examination. I will list down some techniques which I followed to fetch great marks.
For poems — be clear about the author, his intention of writing the poem and on what theme is the poem based. It really helps to know certain technicalities like the metre on which the poem runs and what are the figure of speech used in it. Whatever the question a clever mention of these things will definitely impress your teacher.
Plays and novels are almost same except that in plays you have to remember which event occurred in which act of the play. Be very thorough about this.mentioning the act number and the scene number with all the characters present in the particular scene is always a good bet even if you don't know a lot about the play. Secondly again remembering the age to which the author belongs and the background in which the play/novel was written is crucial.
There may be other topics like Literary Criticism or History of English Literature or Language. These are mostly fact based topics and you need to prepare notes on each and every chapter because they help form a strong foundation of the subject for you. Please do not ignore these especially History of English Literature because it is like the subject Mathematics of our school days. The more you try to escape it's clutches the more tightly it will grasp back at you with its claws! Don't be scared. English is a subject to be enjoyed and loved. The more you love it the better it will serve you in the future.
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