These are notes and lists that you should prepare for IB English Language-Literature SL Paper 2.
Identify literary devices (make lists and comparisons from all texts)
Make note of:
• Purpose
• Audience (historical context)
• Tone
• Point of view
• Time Period Written
Have to cover:
• Critical analysis of themes and comparisons between both texts
• Main ideas two texts cover
• Best quotes and examples for each
• Are themes hidden or implicit
• Compare themes of both texts, how are they discussed, conveyed
• Blocking, rising action, lighting, stage directions, etc. – dramatic devices
Point of view:
• Is writer narrator, Relationship to reader
• Distance of dialogue and conversations from readers (superior, distant, intimate, do they stir us)
• First, third, omniscient – how much can we trust them (effect)
Tone:
• Good specific terms to describe
• Mention all tone shifts (make notes)
Diction: Adjectives, superlatives
Intro:
• Brief
• Fix a perfect introduction (tweak key words from question)
• State two pieces of works (genres – play or…)
• Address playwrights or authors
• State difference and similarity to texts which will be thesis with respect to question
• State what you will analyze – context, diction, tone, mood, etc.
Body
• Compare and contrast two texts
o Analyze text a and then text b and then compare
o Analyze text a for an idea/theme and then text b and compare (ex. Syntax in text a and then syntax in text b)
• How each author used devices and find similarities and differences
• PEEL (Have to!!)
• Point Evidence Examine/Explain Link
• How to introduce quotes in text
o Point from text a
o Quote from text a
o Compare with quote from text b
• Fix transition words already (Make an acronym for it)
• Fix pattern for essay
• Prepare vocabulary
• LINK BACK TO QUESTION EACH PARA/IDEA
Conclusion
• Fix a perfect conclusion (tweak key words from question)
• Add in element of originality
• Bring points you used in body
• Is text effective?
• Is one more effective? If yes why?
• Message of each text
• Was it effectively communicated to the audience
