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Reading for Style

The IB states that the guiding question for each unseen passage on Paper 1 will focus "on a central technical or formal element that may provide an interesting point of entry into the text." In other words, it will focus on an aspect of style in the passage and students are expected to use this as the focus of their analysis. With a quarter of the marks available for their ability to analyse and evaluate textual...

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