📚 English (MYP, DP, Edexcel, IGCSE)
✏️ Textual Analysis / Unseen Response
🔹 Key Skills:
- Identify form, audience, purpose, tone.
- Language techniques (imagery, metaphor, alliteration, symbolism, irony, etc.).
- Structure (narrative arc, tension, climax, resolution).
- Comment on effect on reader.
- Link techniques back to author’s purpose.
🔹 Revise:
- Annotate quickly: 5–7 notes per paragraph.
- Focus on global issues for IB (identity, power, injustice, environment, etc.).
- In Edexcel and IGCSE, focus more on how techniques create meaning.
🔹 Techniques Cheat Sheet:
| Technique | Effect |
|---|---|
| Alliteration | Creates rhythm, emphasis |
| Metaphor | Adds vivid imagery and deeper meaning |
| Irony | Highlights contrasts or criticism |
| Juxtaposition | Emphasizes differences between ideas |
| Symbolism | Deepens the theme, multiple layers of meaning |