Language A: language and literature Internal Assessment Student outline form

Global Issue: The impact of materialistic culture on individuals

Texts chosen and Work/BOW- Poem and Netflix series

Lit Text and Work- Mrs. Faust

Non Lit Text and BOW- Inventing Anna

Notes for the oral (maximum of 10 bullet points) : 5 POINTS FOR LIT TEXT AND 5 POINTS FOR NON-LIT
TEXT.

1. Duffy used alliteration in stanza 2, 4 and 7 to grab the attention of the reader on the materialistic
gains Mr. and Mrs. Faust were making in their lives. She is trying to emphasize the fact that we
2. Duffy has tried to give a humorous angle to the poem when she said ‘I grew to love the lifestyle
not the life, he grew to love the kudos not the wife’ portraying how the definition of happiness
3. . We will not be able to take anything with us and ironically, we all know this very well, still we
spend most of our life in accumulating things and ignore all our relationships.
4. Duffy has used contrast to highlight how money made their relationship so baren and devoid of
love. This is the reality of us all too, we all believe that we will become happy once we have all
5. . It has used Allusion to allude the young generation by showing a high-flying lifestyle of a girl
who believes money can buy happiness for her. She uses her wits and charms to persuade
6. The show uses foreshadowing to impress its audience and make them part of the show. We were
compelled to stick to the story and support Anna when we all knew she was using wrong means to
7. The episode used hyperbole very nicely. Audience was taken by surprise when Anna was more
concerned about her dresses than the trial proceedings and hired the most expensive designer to
8. Juxtaposition is what that makes this episode stand out. In episode 4 ‘The wolf in the chick
clothing’ Allen Reed a successful businessman agreed to invest in Anna’s project and felt bad for
9. Drama is always attention grabber for episodes and Inventing Anna is no exception to this. This
entire series uses drama in such a way that people really got addicted to it and wanted to know the
10. Materialistic culture has shown adverse effects on individuals as we are losing our self-identity
and ability to value important aspects like love, affection, respect, and humanity. Materialistic