IB ENGLISH A / COURSE REFERENCE
Literary forms
How do voice, form and structure make meaning? Use these guides to notice possibilities in literary texts, not to assign a fixed effect to a device.
A work can cross forms and genres. Follow its particular choices before relying on a label.
FOLIOExplore literary, rhetorical and image-analysis terms ↗
Available guides
04 / OPEN01PoetryRead voice, movement, line breaks, imagery and sound together through worked examples of Up-Hill, The Paperweight and Caught.02DramaRead dialogue as action: follow replies, silence and stage directions, then explore a separate Bovell worked example.03Prose non-fictionExplore memoir, biography, travel writing and essays, then read M. F. K. Fisher’s comic account of a meal.04Prose fictionRead narrative perspective, character, setting and structure, then follow a childhood accident through three viewpoints in Moon Tiger.