Assessments
How many official assessments are there for SL students in English A: Literature?
Three
How many times can you use a text for an official assessment?
Once
"Thou art so fat-witted, with drinking of old sack"
Which student claims Green Eggs and Ham as their favourite text?
Seb
Name a technique used in this line from Mrs Beast:
"Here was a bit of him like a horse, a ram,
An ape, a wolf, a dog, a donkey, dragon, dinosaur."
Simile
Anaphora
Asyndetic listing
Dental Alliteration
Which paper focuses on guided analysis of unseen texts?
Paper 1
How many literary texts must SL read?
9
"You just need a little faith to see you through"
The Turning
Which student completed an EE in Language A?
Cormac
Difference between tone and voice?
Tone = attitude.
Voice = personality.
What is the extra assessment for HL students?
Name TWO literary texts DP L&L have read that we have not studied.
1984
The Crucible
"Do you know, you ought to embroider...it’s far more becoming."
A Doll's House
Which student is still complaining they were denied the chance to study HL?
Piers
What is hypophora?
Asking a question, then immediately answering it.
What is Criterion D for all the assessments?
Language
Which of the authors studied in DP Lit is Miss Kovalik's favourite?
Tim Winton
"deep into the woods away from home, to a dark tangled thorny place lit by the eyes of owls"
Little Red Cap
Which students were in the Champion 1st debating team?
Jack, Robbie
What is antithetical parallelism?
A contrast is established across two lines/clauses of a similar structure e.g. "Fair is foul and foul is fair".
What is the IA called in English A?
(Must be the full name, not the acronym)
The Individual Oral
What is the IB definition of a text?
Anything which conveys information
(similar answers with different wording accepted)
This text has been described as "A mixture of poetic and playful but with shades of the piteous"
The Penelopiad
Which students had Miss Kovalik taught in Year 7-10? 100 points for each correct student + 100 points for each correct year.
Piers (7)
Leonid (8)
Robbie, Diego (10)
Cormac (7, 10)
There are eight important types of diction. Name FIVE.
Formal
Informal
Colloquial
Slang
Pedantic
Poetic
Concrete