The IB Test
This is the date of the IB test in Literature.
What is May 12?
Category A of the rubric is made up of your knowledge and this word.
What is understanding?
A comparison between two objects using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
"So that you will hear me, my words sometimes grow thin." Words growing thin is an example of this device.
What is personification?
Two rhyming lines of poetry.
What is a couplet?
It is what you have to do for Paper 1.
What is write two commentaries?
It is the category on the rubric in which you are expected to explain what authorial choices you see and how they impact the text.
What is Category B or What is Analysis?
The name of the device where successive words begin with the same consonant sound.
What is alliteration?
The setting of the line of a famous Dickens novel: "This was the winter of our discontent."
What is winter?
What is a quatrain?
This is the time that you will report to the testing room.
What is 12PM (noon)?
To get a high score in language, you don't just have to have accurate spelling and grammar. You also have to have this.
What is specific or academic vocabulary?
These are the instructions given the actors which are written into the script.
What are stage directions?
What is third person narration?
Words like, "pop," or "slap and squelch of soggy peat."
What is onomatopoeia?
These are the only items allowed in the exam room.
What are highlighters?
Claim, Evidence, and Warrant are judged on this category of the rubric.
What is Criterion C or Organization and Development?
The name of the technique when a character is alone on stage and speaking aloud to show their inner thoughts.
What is a soliloquy?
The structural technique seen here:
"No, sir," she said. "No place."
"How long was you at Sweet Home?"
"Ten year, I believe."
What is dialogue?
The number of lines in a traditional English Sonnet.
What is 14?
The two elements other than Paper 1 which make up your total IB Score for Literature.
What are the Individual Oral (IO) and HL Essay?
If you summarize a text and provide references to the text, this is the highest score you will get on the Knowledge and Understanding Criteria.
What is 2?
This is the Latin phrase which means "In the middle of" and is used to describe the technique a non-fiction writer uses to drop the reader into the middle of the action.
What is "in media res?"
The sentence type shown in the following quotation: "Keep your eye clear as the bleb of an icicle."
What is a simple OR command sentence?
Words which create a harsh sound, comprised predominantly of "f," "k," or "g" sounds.
What is cacophony?