Literary Vocabulary
Use all five types of imagery to describe your ideal vacation.
1. Sight
2. Touch
3. Hearing
4. Taste
5. Smell
What are five different text types you could encounter on Paper 1?
1. Comics
2. Speeches
3. News Articles
4. Advertisements
5. Op-Eds
**There are many other correct answers
Which 2-3 texts are you planning to use in your Paper 2 essay?
Answers may NOT include the texts you used in your IO or your HLE.
1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
2. The Memory Police
3. The Great Gatsby
4. Hamlet
5. Persepolis
6. The Fire Next Time
Which novel from Year 1 was your favorite? Justify your thinking in 4+ sentences.
Answers will vary.
Which two countries does Persepolis take place in?
Iran and Austria
What are four types of figurative language?
1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3.Personification
4. Onomatopoeia
5. Oxymoron
6. Hyperbole
7. Alliteration
8. Allusion
When should you use the guiding question as the focus of your Paper One essay? When should you ignore it?
Whenever possible, respond to the guiding question.
Only ignore it if you genuinely don't know how to answer it.
What are two prominent literary devices that Yoko Ogawa uses in The Memory Police?
Foreshadowing, symbolism, and juxtaposition
What is the To-Be-Or-Not-To-Be soliloquy in Hamlet about?
Hamlet is grappling with the hardships of his life, questioning whether to endure the pain (live) or end it through death (commit suicide).
Ethos is appeal to the credibility or authority of the speaker or writer. Example: A doctor recommending a product in an advertisement.
Pathos is the appeal to the audience's emotions. Example: An advertisement showing images of suffering animals to evoke sympathy.
Logos is the appeal to logic and reason, using facts, statistics, and logical arguments. Example: A commercial citing statistics to show the effectiveness of a product.
How long do you have to write both of your Paper 1 essays?
Two hours and fifteen minutes
Which grading categories are worth 5 points (rather than 10)?
Criterion A (Knowledge, understanding, & interpretation) and Criterion B (Analysis and evaluation) are each worth 10 points, so they're weighted twice as heavily.
Criterion C (Focus and organization) and Criterion D (Language) are each only worth 5 points.
What are three significant themes/global issues that Junot Diaz explores in Oscar Wao?
1. Many people don't feel fully accepted in either the country their family comes from or the country in which they were born.
2. When people don't address their own dysfunction, they risk passing intergenerational trauma onto their kids.
3. True love is based on appreciation and freedom rather than a desire to control.
What are two significant themes/global issues that Marjane Satrapi explores in Persepolis?
1. Education can be both a tool for enlightenment and a means of propaganda.
2. Cultural expectations can limit freedom and self-expression.
3. Political changes have significant impacts on individual lives and relationships.
What is an example of anaphora?
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills…” - Winston Churchill’s “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech
What percentage of your overall IB English score (100 percentage points) is Paper One is worth?
35%
What are three ways that your Paper 2 texts are different?
What is one hour and forty-five minutes?
How do two of the minor characters in The Great Gatsby contribute to the book's larger themes?
Meyer Wolfsheim embodies the way that wealth obtained through nefarious means comes with tremendous risk.
Henry Gatz shows that kindness and honesty may shouldn't be overlooked because these qualities are often hard to come by.
In the second essay from The Fire Next Time, why does James Baldwin spend so much time discussing his interactions with Elijah Muhammad?
Baldwin praises certain elements of Muhammed’s philosophy, but ultimately juxtaposes Muhammed’s cynical us-verus-them idea about race with Baldwin’s more hopeful together-we-all-rise idea.
Using “The White House” to refer to the President or the president's administration is an example of what literary device?
Metonymy
What are three tips you have for your classmates about how to write a strong Paper 1 analysis of a visual text?
1.Consider the impact of colors, fonts, and layouts
2.Analyze both visual and textual elements
3.Discuss and analyze the artistic style of the ad/comic/other visual text
4. Evaluate the effectiveness of the text at achieving its purpose
How do you recommend your classmates structure their Paper 2 essays?
Intro Paragraph
Paragraph about how Text 1 answers the prompt
Paragraph about how Text 2 answers the prompt in a way that's similar to Text 1
Paragraph about how Text 1 and Text 2 answer the prompt differently
Conclusion
How do the three novels use narration in ways that are distinct?
Oscar Wao uses different narrators and narrative perspectives
The Memory Police uses an unnamed first person narrator (and also includes parts of the novel she's writing)
The Great Gatsby uses an unreliable first-person narrator
What is one prominent similarity between all three of the texts?
Answers will vary.