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    Analysing Short Prose Extracts - Useful Tips For IB English Paper 1

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

    Form: characterisation Language


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