IB English A: Lang & Lit SL Notes

Aimnova offers free IB English A: Language and Literature SL revision notes for first assessment 2026. Because this is a skills course, the notes are built around what the exams actually reward — close reading of unseen non-literary texts, a comparative essay on two literary works, and the Individual Oral — with a 22-technique analysis toolkit, worked model answers, and spaced-repetition flashcards. No sign-up required to read the notes.

IB English A: Language and Literature is not a body of facts to memorise; it is a set of transferable analytical skills. You learn to read closely and argue about how meaning is made — how a writer's choices of language, structure, and style shape an audience's response. The notes teach an explicit toolkit of 22 analysis techniques (from tone, diction, and imagery to structure, register, and rhetorical appeal) and then show you how to turn a good observation into a full analytical paragraph that moves from choice to effect to significance.

These notes are organised across five study units that mirror the assessment: Analysing Texts (the analysis toolkit taught up front), Non-literary Text Types, Paper 1 (guided analysis of one or two unseen non-literary texts), Paper 2 and the Individual Oral (the comparative essay on two literary works and the global-issue oral), and — for HL — the HL Essay. You revise for Paper 1 (guided textual analysis) and Paper 2 (comparative essay) with worked model answers throughout.