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Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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MYP Language and Literature

Genres

A category of text marked by certain shared features or conventions
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Genres: form, style, plot, characterization, theme, tone, mood, atmosphere, register, images, layout, perspective, prose, poetry, drama, mythology, fiction, non-fiction

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Intertextuality

Connections between texts and the meaning arising from them

Intertextuality: quotation, relationship, reference, allusion, pastiche, parody, plagiarism, translation

Context

Social, historical, cultural and workplace settings
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Context: value, heritage, transformation, traditions, customs, beliefs, time

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Audience imperatives

Characteristics or response(s) expected from an intended audience

Audience imperatives: humour, sensibility, critical stance, appreciation, empathy, antipathy, sympathy, aesthetics, mood, atmosphere, irony, gender perspectives

Purpose

Creator's intentions in producing the text
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Purpose: meaning, thesis, argument, gender, persuasive techniques, function, critical stance, message, culture, agenda

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Character

Representations of personalities in texts
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Character: transformation, influence, conflict, protagonist, antagonist, persona, foil, stock, device

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Theme

The central, recurring ideas in a text, suggestive of a particular stance
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Theme: stance, patterns, idea, implicit, explicit, concept, thesis

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Setting

The time and place(s) in which the action of the text happens 
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Setting: mood, atmosphere, milieu, period, historical, cultural, social, geographical, backstory, story world

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Structure

Organisation of a text and the relationship between the whole and its parts
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Structure: metre, patterns, stanza, scansion, cohesion, plot, narrative, discourse, thesis, syntax, transitions, foreshadowing, flashbacks

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Style

Characteristic use of language for particular purposes and effects

Style: diction, syntax, figurative language, repetition, motif, allusion, imagery, symbolism, theme, tone, mood

Point of view

Perspectives within the text OR of the text
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Point of view: positioning, voice, tone, narrator, omniscient, limited, un/reliable, first/second/third person, objective, subjective

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Self-expression

Expression of own feelings, thoughts or ideas
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Self-expression: identity, personal voice, inspiration, imagination, sensitivity, muse, process, opinion, belief

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