Unit 1: Analysing Texts
Topic 1.1: Understanding Analysis Questions
Practice 19 exam-style questions for IB English A: Lang & Lit SL Topic 1.1. Review the question stems below, then unlock the full Question Bank to access markschemes, model answers, and AI grading.
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Warm up — reading the target audience from the writer's choices
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Test your instinct — spotting a text's purpose (persuade / inform / instruct / entertain)
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First, a quick look — analysis vs summary (choice → effect → meaning)
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A quick opener — how context (who/when/where/why) shapes meaning
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Quick starter — theme (topic) vs message (the point about it)
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Get your eye in — the Read · TAP · Hunt · Explain routine
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Ease in — seeing a big global issue inside a small personal story
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Read the short text, then answer. (Exam-style practice.)
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Piece it together, step by step — running Read · TAP · Hunt · Explain on a real text
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Read the short text and its source, then answer. (Exam-style practice.)
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Work through it in small steps — how choices build a writer's message (not just the topic)
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Work through it in small steps — turning a writer's choices into meaning
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Take it step by step — how choices serve a text's purpose
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Piece it together, step by step — showing a big global issue through one person's experience
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One step at a time — how a text is aimed at a particular audience
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Let's build it up, one step at a time — using context to make an appeal persuasive
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Build a full analysis of the text below, one step at a time.
Guiding question: How do the writer's choices serve the text's purpose?
Work through the parts — together they add up to a complete answer.
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Build a full analysis of the text below, one step at a time.
Guiding question: How does the writer use the context of the appeal to persuade the reader to give?
Work through the parts — together they add up to a complete answer.
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Build a full analysis of the text below, one step at a time.
Guiding question: How does the writer make the reader feel welcome?
Work through the parts — together they add up to a complete answer.
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