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English Language and Literature
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Free English Language and Literature revision notes for IB Middle Years Programme (MYP) students. Each chapter covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take straight into the thinka app.
Reading literary texts
Prose fiction extracts
Poetry
Drama extracts
Literary non-fiction and memoir
Narrative voice and perspective
Theme, character and setting
Reading non-literary and multimodal texts
News and feature articles
Advertisements and posters
Speeches and rhetoric
Blogs, websites and social media
Infographics, images and data texts
Bias, purpose and audience
Language and stylistic devices
Figurative language and imagery
Sound devices and rhythm
Structure, form and layout
Tone, register and mood
Grammar, syntax and punctuation for effect
Vocabulary and word choice in context
Analytical writing
Close reading of unseen extracts
Analytical paragraphs (point-evidence-explanation)
Analysing a creator's choices and their effect
Comparing and contrasting two texts
Using textual evidence and referencing
Structuring an analytical response
Creative and transactional writing
Narrative writing
Descriptive writing
Internal monologue and character voice
Persuasive and argumentative writing
Letters, articles, speeches and reviews
Writing from a visual stimulus
Planning, drafting and editing
Concepts, contexts and connections
Purpose, context and audience
Genre and text-type conventions
Intertextuality and connections between texts
Culture, heritage and world literature
Language, identity and representation
Power, conflict and social issues in texts
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