Paper 2: The Rules
The paper:
- Will contain questions broken up into four categories. The four categories will be related to specific text genres such as poetry, the novel and drama.
- There will be specific questions for each genre of the novel, drama, poetry.
- You will therefore have a choice of questions, related to the specific genre of texts that we have studied in preparation for the exam.
- Standard Level exams last for one and half hours
- Higher Level exams last for two hours
You must:
- Choose only one question from the options open to you
- Write an essay in response to that question based on two or three of the texts you have studied
The World Literature essay is meant to asses your:
- ability to draw insightful and interesting links between texts that you have studied in class
- ability to show how a writer has used and manipulated literary features to create an overall meaning / message or to have any other kind of effect on the reader.
- ability to show an appreciation of aspects such as theme, content, style, structure and language.
- ability to use detailed references to texts as evidence to support your points.
- ability to integrate these references smoothly into your essay.
- ability to structure essays that are continuous and show a gradual development of points and argument. Essays comprising unrelated paragraphs will not merit a high achievement level.
- ability to write in the formal and precise register of literary analysis
Remember:
- To brainstorm the elements you might use in response to the question and then plan your essay before you start
- It is better to write only about two texts so that you can discuss each one in depth
- Good essays will consist of a small number of detailed and well developed paragraphs rather than a large number of short and superficial paragraphs
- The examiner’s will have read the texts and so there is no need to explain details of the plot to them.
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