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Studies in language and literature

IB English A: Literature SL and HL

21 lessons at SL. 23 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons, exam-style questions and timed mock papers.

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Units
6
SL lessons
21
HL lessons
23
Questions
134
Key terms
80

What you will study

Every lesson follows the current IB guide. Lessons marked HL are in the HL course only. The first unit is free.

Literary forms5 lessons · free
  1. Literary formsPoetry: line, sound and shape
  2. Literary formsProse fiction: narrator and point of view
  3. Literary formsProse fiction: time, character and setting
  4. Literary formsDrama: reading for the stage
  5. Literary formsLiterary non-fiction
Literary devices and narrative technique3 lessons
  1. Literary devicesImagery, symbol and motif
  2. Literary devicesDiction, syntax and irony
  3. Narrative techniqueShaping a narrative: frames, streams and gaps
The course and the areas of exploration5 lessons
  1. Course overviewThe Literature course and the learner portfolio
  2. Course overviewWorks in translation and the reading list
  3. Areas of explorationReaders, writers and texts
  4. Areas of explorationTime and space
  5. Areas of explorationIntertextuality: connecting literary works
The seven central concepts3 lessons
  1. Central conceptsIdentity and culture in literature
  2. Central conceptsCreativity and communication in literature
  3. Central conceptsPerspective, transformation and representation
Paper 1: guided literary analysis2 SL · 3 HL lessons
  1. Paper 1Paper 1 at a glance
  2. Paper 1Practice: an unseen poem
  3. Paper 1HL Paper 1: two passages, two analysesHL
Paper 2, the individual oral and the HL essay3 SL · 4 HL lessons
  1. Paper 2Paper 2: the comparative essay
  2. Paper 2Writing the comparative essay
  3. Individual oralThe individual oral
  4. HL essayThe HL essayHL

Try a question

From “Poetry: line, sound and shape”.

Questions are in English, like the exam. Every answer comes with an explanation.

In an invented poem, a sentence runs over a line break so that the word "gone" opens the next line on its own. What is this technique called?

  1. ARefrain
  2. BEnjambment
  3. CCaesura
  4. DEnd-stopping
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B. Enjambment

Enjambment carries the sentence past the line end; here it delays and isolates "gone".

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