Basics of Paper 1
How many essays do HL students write? How many essays do SL students write?
SL: 1
How many essay questions are you given? How many do you respond to?
4 essay questions given, PICK 1
Which Greek God's creation story mirrors Victor?
Prometheus
What is The Meursault Investigation's hypotext?
The Stranger
If you are writing about The Stranger, what MUST you write about?
ABSURDISM
How much time do HL students with standard time get? SL students?
HL: 2 hours 15 mins
SL: 1 hour 15 mins
What are the 3 different recommended thesis structures?
Compare: Both TEXT A and TEXT B + marker verb + shared claim about topic
Contrast:
•Whereas TEXT A + marker verb + claim about topic, TEXT B + marker verb + contrasting claim.
•In contrast to TEXT A, which + marker verb + claim, TEXT B + marker verb + opposing claim.
Compare and Contrast: While both TEXT A and TEXT B + marker verb + shared claim, TEXT A + marker verb + claim unique to TEXT A, whereas TEXT B + marker verb + contrasting claim unique to TEXT B.
Name 3 conventions of gothic literature
Decay, metonymy, pathetic fallacy, foreign setting, omens, potents or visions, the supernatural, high emotion, isolation and loneliness, women in distress, moral and psychological complexity
Define postmodernism and name two stylistic techniques.
A literary movement that seeks to dispute, reverse, mock, and reject the principles of modernist literature which usually seeks to create or find meaning in a chaotic world.
Stylistic techniques: intertextuality, metafiction, deconstruction of truth, reader involvement, skepticism of grand narratives
If you choose to write about poetry for the Paper 2, how many poems must you write about?
Approx. how many authorial choices / pieces of evidence should you have for each topic sentence?
2-3
How many and what kind of texts do you need to use in a paper 2 essay?
Two LITERARY works.
What is the difference between romanticism and enlightenment?
Romanticism is a literary and art movement that places emphasis on emotions and the subjective imagination while Enlightenment places emphasis on the intellectual, the sciences, and empirical ways of viewing the world
What topics does postcolonial literature deal with?
the cultural, political, and social legacies of colonialism; it explores themes of identity, displacement, resistance, and the struggle for independence, challenging dominant Western narratives and amplifying marginalized voices
What are the three major philosophies that are relevant to our discussions of The Stranger?
Nihilism, existentialism and absurdism
What are the 4 MAJOR components you need in your Paper 1 introduction?
Hook, introduction to the topic, introduction to the text, and a thesis
What are the two recommended structures for writing a Paper 2? What is the one forbidden structure for writing a Paper 2?
Forbidden: Block
Name two roles that women play / important ideas that women represent.
Moral anchors, damsels in distress, collateral damage and casualties of ambition
Name two biblical brothers that Musa and Harun are allusions to.
Moses and Aaron
Cain and Abel
What symbol of destruction does Victor encounter during his youth in Frankenstein?
an tree struck by lightning and completely destroyed during a storm. symbolizes destruction, foreshadows Victor’s ruin, and signifies the immense, dangerous power of nature and electricity, marking his transition toward destructive scientific obsession
How do you answer a HOW question in your thesis statement versus your body paragraphs?
HOW in thesis: conceptual, big ideas
HOW in body paragraphs: authorial choices
What are the 5 categories you are graded on for Paper 2?
Knowledge, Understanding, and Interpretation; Analysis and Evaluation of authorial choices; Analysis and Evaluation of similarities and differences; Focus and Organization; Language/Communication
Name at least 3 texts that the creature reads and learns from AND why they are significant to the creation.
John Milton's Paradise Lost, Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Frankenstein's journals, and Volney's Ruins of Empires
Name 3 out of 6 characteristics of the ideal victim from Nil Christie's Ideal Victim Theory
6 characteristics: weaker than perpetrator, acting virtuously or innocently, blameless for crime, unrelated to criminal, intimidating perpetrator, non-threatening social status
Name two monster theory theses.
1. The monster's body is a cultural body
2. The monster always escapes
3. The monster is the harbinger of category crisis
4. the monster dwells at the gates of difference
5. The monster polices the borders of the possible
6. Fear of the monster is really a kind of desire.
7. The monster stands at the threshold of becoming.