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• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Conventions of Fiction
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Thinking vs. feeling
• Considering point of view
• Types of point of view
• Considering voice
• Appreciation
• Considering characterization
• Considering plot
• Considering setting and time
• Considering theme
• Considering structure
• Considering tone
• Chapter 2: Conventions of Drama
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Conventions and expectations of drama
• Dramatic structure
• The ‘well-made play’
• Other dramatic classifications
• Considering theme in drama
• Considering time in drama
• What constitutes a ‘striking theatrical experience’?
• Appreciation
• Chapter 3: Conventions of Poetry
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Considering types of poetry: lyric, narrative and dramatic
• Considering structure and language
• A word about translation
• Speaker and persona
• Time and place
• Diction
• Syntax
• Figurative language – metaphor, simile, personification
• Sound – onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, alliteration
• Structure – narrative, discursive, descriptive, reflective/meditative
• Rhyme scheme
• Metre
• Stanza forms – terza rima, villanelle, sonnet, free verse, concrete poems
• Appreciation
• Guidelines for reading poetry
• Chapter 4: Conventions of Prose Other than Fiction
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Audience and context
• Persuasive techniques
• Register
• Literary features of repetition
• Different types of non-fiction
• Essays
• Speeches
• Letters
• Diaries
• Biographies
• Autobiographies
• Historical accounts
• Chronicles
• Philosophical texts
• Emerging technologies
• Academic monograph
• Appreciation
• Chapter 5: Commentary
• Knowledge and Understanding
• What is a guided literary analysis?
• What is a commentary?
• What is the architecture/structure/form of an extract?
• How to write a commentary
• How to write a commentary
• Colour-marking prose and poetry – a way into commentary
• How to approach analyses of Shakespeare passages
• Appreciation
• Assessment criteria
• Paper 1: Literary commentary
• Paper 1: Guided literary analysis
• Chapter 6: Comparative Essay
• Knowledge and Understanding
• Understanding the process of comparison/contrast
• The comparative process and exam Paper 2
• Steps to writing a comparison/contrast essay
• Describing similarity or difference
• Evaluating similarity or difference
• Appreciation
• ‘Unpacking’ the Paper 2 essay question
• Paper 2: Essay assessment criteria, SL
• Paper 2: Essay assessment criteria, HL
• Chapter 7: The Individual Oral Presentation
• Knowledge and Understanding
• The learning outcomes for the presentation
• Acquire knowledge and understanding of the works studied
• Present an individual, independent response to works studied
• Acquire powers of expression through oral presentation
• Learn how to interest and hold the attention of an audience
• Assessment
• Criterion A: Knowledge and understanding of the work(s)
• Criterion B: Presentation
• Structure
• Linking devices
• Strategies
• Criterion C: Language
• Appreciation
• Types of presentation
• Planning the presentation and tips for good presenting
• Planning
• 12 easy steps to planning your presentation
• Tips for good presenting
• New textualities
• Graphic novels
• Hypertext narratives
• Literature and film
• Chapter 8: The Individual Oral Commentary
• Knowledge and Understanding
• The significance of the Individual Oral Commentary (IOC) in the course
• Why the skill of close reading of a single passage?
• The assessment criteria: what is expected of you
• Standard Level
• The SL assessment criteria
• Individual Oral Commentary (SL)
• Higher Level
• The HL assessment criteria
• Individual Oral Commentary and discussion (HL)
• The components of the oral commentary
• Subsequent questions and discussion
• Subsequent questions and discussion of literature for HL
• Appreciation
• Approaching the text in the oral commentary
• What, Through, Effect and Meaning
• The main techniques and structural devices for an IOC
• The language of the IOC
• The components of the IOC
• Introduction
• The argument
• The main body
• The conclusion
• Charting the progression of the text
• Chapter 9: Works in Translation
• Introduction
• Knowledge and Understanding
• The structure of Part 1: works in translation
• The assessment criteria of the written assignment
• Written assignment (SL and HL)
• Appreciation
• Appreciation of the subtleties of culture
• Chapter 10: Advice on the Group 1 Extended Essay (EE)
• Introduction
• The EE and research: an opportunity for growth
• The order of your research writing
• The research question
• Academic honesty
• The Extended Essay: basics
• The first three pages
• Last pages
• EE schedule
• Chapter 11: Theory of Knowledge (TOK)
• Literature and art as a dream
• Ethics and knowledge
• Further Reading
• Glossary
• Index
• Back Cover