Paper 1
What are the types of texts you see in paper 1?
Visual and text heavy texts.
Instead of using a direct quote what can you do?
Paraphrase/Reference
What is an adjective?
A word that describes a noun.
This authorial choice is used to evoke sensory experiences using descriptive language?
Imagery.
Who was Laila starrs enemy in TMDOLS?
Darius.
This provided prompt is meant to focus your analysis on a specific formal or stylistic aspect of the text.
Guiding question
To score high in Criterion A Knowledge and Understanding, you must address this specific word on how a text was produced or received.
Context
An incomplete sentence that are punctuated as a sentence but lacks a subject, a verb, or does not express a complete thought.
Sentence fragment
This specific type of prompt asks if the "ends justify the means," requiring you to analyze characters' moral choices and their outcomes.
Morality
When two words are joined together to create a new word.
Compound word
To get a better score in this assessment criterion, a student must go further than simple summary to offer a "convincing and insightful" interpretation of the text's deeper implications.
Criterion A
In Criterion B, you are assessed on how well you evaluate the "formal elements" of a work. This is the IB's way of saying:
literary devices and structural choices
Joins two or more closely related independent clauses
Semicolon.
What authorial choice describes when a mild or indirect word is used in place of a more harsh phrase?
Euphemism
This phrase, referring to the inevitable westward expansion of the U.S., first appeared in an 1845 article.
Manifest destiny
In visual analysis, this term refers to the deliberate arrangement of elements within a frame to lead the viewer’s eye toward a focal point.
Composition
Prompts regarding "the past in the present" are usually asking for an analysis of this narrative technique where the chronological order is changed
Anachrony or non linear
When two or more independent clauses are joined without any punctuation or connecting words
Run on sentence
this device involves the author's choice of words, such as "cacophony" or "euphemism," to shape a specific emotional response in the reader.
Diction
In this John Steinbeck book, George and Lennie travel from farm to farm during the Great Depression.
Of Mice and Men
This type of evidence in a non-literary text relies on personal stories or individual examples rather than hard data.
Anecdotal evidence
This term describes a thesis that doesn't just state a fact but explores the conflict or tension within the prompt.
Nuanced or complex
This mistake happens when a descriptive phrase is placed too far from the word it is supposed to describe
Dangling modifier
This complex structural device involves a "story within a story," frequently used to mirror or comment on the primary plot’s themes.
Frame narrative
What is Mx. J's favorite color?
Gray.