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Lang Lit Assessments
100

This P word helps articulate the goal of the text.

What is purpose?

100

This means word but is often interpreted as logic.

What is logos?

100

This singer recently had a baby with ASAP Rocky.

Who is Rihanna?

100

This titular American lit character threw lavish parties in his Long Island mansion.

Who is Jay Gatsby?

100

This is the only internal assessment you will have, and it is at end of junior year.

What is the Internal Oral (IO)?

200

This A word is all about you.

What is audience?

200

This means emotion but is often (mis)interpreted as sadness.

What is pathos?

200

This singer recently re-recorded their own songs so that they could keep their ownership and profits from their earlier songs.

Who is Taylor Swift?

200

This writer shared her story of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution through minimalistic black and white drawings.

Who is Marjane Satrapi?

200
This is a simpler way of saying external assessment.

What is graded by IB?

300

This P word can be multiple and is not the same as the author.

What is persona?

300

This rhetorical strategy is often misunderstood as ethics. It actually means this.

What is credibility?

300

This reggaeton singer recently released a music video that contained a 20-minute documentary about financial exploitation of their native Puerto Rico.

Who is Bad Bunny?

300

This American writer who died in 2019 won the Nobel Prize in 1993. Her first novel is on the most banned books list.

Who is Toni Morrison?

300

A 1200-1500 word essay on a literary or non-literary body of work studied in class.

What is the HL essay?

400

To analyze this A word we might ask whether readers need to judge, understand, or decide.

What is argument?

400

This refers to the right moment, time, or situation.

What is kairos?

400

This 80s era singer recently had their song running back on the top of the charts thanks to a popular streaming series. 

Who is Kate Bush?

400

This American writer is famous for "Leaves of Grass."

Who is Walt Whitman?

400

This criterion on the Lang Lit rubric focuses on the grammar and quality of your writing or speaking.

What is Criterion D?

500

"Balloons are deflated" is an example of this within the PAPA realm.

What are rhetorical devices and strategies?

500

This Greek philosopher established terms of classical rhetoric.

Who is Artistotle?

500

The Queens remix of Break My Soul features these two icons.

Who are Beyonce and Madonna?

500

This American writer composed these lines in a famous short story: "'Be a good sport, Tessie,'" Mrs. Delacroix cried, and Mrs. Graves said, 'All of us took the same chance.'"

Who is Shirley Jackson?

500

The IO requires you consider an excerpt from a literary text and a non-literary work or body of work that are each this long.

What is 40 lines?