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    Analysing short prose extracts – Useful tips for IB English Paper 1

    Form: characterisation
    We learn about character Language
    through what s/he says and
    does, how s/he speaks, what
    The central focus Choice of vocabulary?
    Formal or informal, everyday or
    other characters say about What is the author’s purpose? specialist?
    him/her, narrator’s/authorial
    What themes and issues are Positive or pejorative connotations of
    comment. key words?
    explored? What does s/he
    Repetition?
    want the reader to think, feel
    Imagery – similes, metaphors,
    Form: use of settings or know about the themes personification, symbolism?
    Can be places, times, seasons, and issues explored? What Aural impact – alliteration and
    assonance, sounds of key words?
    weathers, communities, or attitudes and values are
    cultures. Often used to contribute Sentence types – simple, compound,
    to mood and reveal underlying conveyed? complex?
    attitudes and values.
    Sentence functions – declarative,
    Then, how are these ideas interrogative, exclamative, imperative?
    conveyed through choices of
    language, structure and
    Form: narrative technique
    form?
    What type of narrator?
    Omniscient? 1st or 3rd person?
    Reliable or unreliable? Character Structure
    inside the action or detached?
    Dramatic structure – sequence of
    Multiple narration?
    events building up to a powerful
    conclusion?
    Logical structure – sequence of ideas
    connected by addition, result,
    Form: events Form: genre comparison, contrast, passage of time,
    enumeration, example, summary?
    Consider significance of individual What kind of novel is the extract
    events and their relationship to taken from? How has the writer Problem-solution? Question-answer?
    each other. How do the events used or adapted its conventions? Cause-effect? Thesis-antithesis-
    selected help to reveal the theme? How does this shape your synthesis? Method-result-conclusion?
    interpretation of the themes?
    Analysing short prose extracts – Useful tips for IB English Paper 1

    Form: characterisation

    Language

    The central focus


    Form: use of settings

    Form: narrative technique

    Structure

    Form: events Form: genre

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