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    This document provides tips for analyzing short prose extracts for the IB English Paper 1 exam. It outlines several forms of analysis to consider, including characterisation, use of settings, narrative technique, events, and genre. For each form, it prompts the reader to think about how language, the author's central focus and purpose, and structure convey the ideas and themes within the text.

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    This document provides tips for analyzing short prose extracts for the IB English Paper 1 exam. It outlines several forms of analysis to consider, including characterisation, use of settings, narrative technique, events, and genre. For each form, it prompts the reader to think about how language, the author's central focus and purpose, and structure convey the ideas and themes within the text.

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    Analysing short prose extracts – Useful tips for IB English Paper 1

    Form: characterisation Language


    We learn about character The central focus Choice of vocabulary?
    through what s/he says and Formal or informal, everyday or
    does, how s/he speaks, what What is the author’s specialist?
    other characters say about purpose? What themes and Positive or pejorative connotations of
    him/her, narrator’s/authorial key words?
    comment. issues are explored? What
    Repetition?
    does s/he want the reader
    Imagery – similes, metaphors,
    to think, feel or know about personification, symbolism?
    Form: use of settings
    Can be places, times, seasons,
    the themes and issues Aural impact – alliteration and
    assonance, sounds of key words?
    weathers, communities, or explored? What attitudes
    cultures. Often used to contribute Sentence types – simple, compound,
    to mood and reveal underlying
    and values are conveyed? complex?
    attitudes and values. Sentence functions – declarative,
    Then, how are these ideas interrogative, exclamative,
    conveyed through choices imperative?
    of language, structure and
    Form: narrative technique form?
    What type of narrator?
    Omniscient? 1st or 3rd person? Structure
    Reliable or unreliable? Character
    inside the action or detached? Dramatic structure – sequence of
    Multiple narration? events building up to a powerful
    conclusion?
    Logical structure – sequence of ideas
    connected by addition, result,
    comparison, contrast, passage of time,
    Form: events Form: genre enumeration, example, summary?
    Consider significance of individual What kind of novel is the extract Problem-solution? Question-answer?
    events and their relationship to taken from? How has the writer Cause-effect? Thesis-antithesis-
    each other. How do the events used or adapted its conventions? synthesis? Method-result-conclusion?
    selected help to reveal the theme? How does this shape your
    interpretation of the themes?
    Analysing short prose extracts – Useful tips for IB English Paper 1

    Form: characterisation

    Language

    The central focus


    Form: use of settings

    Form: narrative technique

    Structure

    Form: events Form: genre

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