The Literature course
Narrative voice and perspective
This is a fundamental question - arguably the fundamental question - when faced with any literary text, as David Lodge explains: “The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told...fundamentally...
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Literary terms: self-quiz
A guaranteed way to transfer knowledge into your long term memory is to self-test or self-quiz. Using flash cards is of course an ideal way to do this. You might well use apps like Quizlet or even make...
Assessment
Paper 1: a guide for students
Guided Literary Analysis What is Paper 1? Paper 1, the first of two external examination papers, is called Guided Literary Analysis for both HL and SL students. In this examination you will be given...
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Literary terms (p-z)
Keats' 'Ode on Melancholy' expresses the idea that joy cannot exist without sadness. The existence of one depends on the existence of the other: The use of human emotions to describe inanimate natural...
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Literary terms (a-f)
A word that adds definition to a noun. ‘My sister, Mrs. Joe, with black hair and eyes, had such a prevailing redness of skin that I sometimes used to wonder whether it was possible she washed herself...
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Literary terms (g-o)
Types or classes of literature. The most 'known' genres are the Novel, Poetry, Drama but there are a host of sub genres, for example tragedy and comedy; short story' autobiography; graphic novel; speech;...
Course Assessment
HL Essay exemplar 15: The Thing Around Your Neck
HL Essay on The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie This essay is a very good example of such an investigation, examining two short stories of reasonable length with a fairly narrow literary...
Review/revision
Paper 1 revision: Drama extract
As the May exams are nearly upon us, find below another addition to our series of Paper 1 revision pages for students. These pages seek to address the myth that you cannot revise for Paper 1 as it is...
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How to: prepare your Paper 2 answer
It is usually the case that better essays emerge from careful and effective use of the time between opening the exam paper and starting the first line of your introduction. The video below provides you...
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Paper 1 revision: prose non-fiction extract
Find below an addition to our series of Paper 1 revision pages for students. These pages seek to address the myth that you cannot revise for Paper 1 as it is an unseen examination. While there is no...