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Studies in language and literature

IB Spanish A: Language and Literature SL and HL

22 lessons at SL. 25 at HL, with every HL-only topic. Five-minute lessons, exam-style questions and timed mock papers.

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Units
5
SL lessons
22
HL lessons
25
Questions
183
Key terms
88

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.

Non-literary texts (textos no literarios)6 lessons · free
  1. Text and contextText types, audience and purpose
  2. Text and contextRegister: tú, usted, vos and varieties of Spanish
  3. RhetoricPersuasion: questions, commands and repetition
  4. RhetoricImagery: metáfora, símil, personificación, metonimia
  5. RhetoricSound and contrast: aliteración, antítesis, ironía
  6. Visual textsVisual and multimodal texts
Literary forms and the Hispanic tradition (géneros literarios)4 lessons
  1. PoetryPoetry: metre, rhyme, the sonnet and the romance
  2. NarrativeNarrative: the novel, the short story and magical realism
  3. DramaDrama: the Golden Age comedia, Lorca and beyond
  4. PeriodsPeriods and movements: from the Cid to today
Areas of exploration and concepts (áreas de exploración y conceptos)5 lessons
  1. Course overviewThe course, the reading list and works in translation
  2. Areas of explorationReaders, writers and texts; time and space
  3. Areas of explorationIntertextuality: connecting texts
  4. ConceptsIdentity, culture, creativity and communication
  5. ConceptsPerspective, transformation and representation
Paper 1: guided textual analysis (análisis textual guiado)3 SL · 4 HL lessons
  1. Paper 1Paper 1 at a glance
  2. Paper 1Planning and writing the analysis
  3. Paper 1Practice: an unseen appeal
  4. Paper 1HL Paper 1: two texts, two analysesHL
Paper 2, the individual oral and the HL essay4 SL · 6 HL lessons
  1. Paper 2Paper 2 at a glance
  2. Paper 2Comparing and structuring
  3. Individual oralThe individual oral
  4. Individual oralBuilding the oral
  5. HL essayThe HL essay: a line of inquiryHL
  6. HL essayWriting the HL essayHL

Try a question

From “Text types, audience and purpose”.

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

¿Qué significa «conjunto de obras» en el estudio de los textos no literarios?

  1. AVarios textos no literarios relacionados de un mismo autor o productor
  2. BFrases sueltas sacadas de su contexto
  3. CTraducciones de obras literarias
  4. DTextos escritos todos antes de 1900
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A. Varios textos no literarios relacionados de un mismo autor o productor

A body of work groups related non-literary texts by one author or producer, such as one brand’s campaign.

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