Topic 8.2: The literary individual oral Questions

In an extract analysis for the HL individual oral, which pair of things must you always do?

What is the stimulus for the HL individual oral?

Which verb of analysis best fits: “The repeated image of locked doors ______ the family's growing isolation”?

True or false: naming a literary device (for example, 'there is a metaphor here') is enough to count as analysis. State your answer and justify it in one sentence.

Which three moves should a strong HL presentation make with the extract, in order?

True or false — and justify in one sentence: A strong literary claim should be stated as absolute fact, e.g. “This proves the writer's meaning.”

"as though it might have changed its mind" (paragraph 1). The phrase mainly…

Find the word in paragraph 1 which means "was suitable for".

"a letter arriving is not the same as news arriving" (paragraph 1). The writer means that…

Find the word in paragraph 3 which means "send on to another address".

Rewrite this casual sentence in an appropriate literary register: “This bit uses a lot of dark words and it makes you feel scared.”

Imagine this is your oral extract. In two or three sentences, PLACE it and ANALYSE one theme, using a short quotation. Extract: The house key had hung on the same nail by the door for thirty years, and for thirty years Mr Okafor had never once locked up. He kept it there, he said, not to shut the world out but so that anyone who had left could always, without asking, let themselves back in. The nail was rusted now, and the key with it, but neither had ever been moved.

True or false: in a first-person extract, the "I" who speaks is the author of the work.

Explain, in two or three sentences, why an extract analysis should end by linking the passage to the whole literary work.

Which sentence discusses the extract in the strongest analytical register?

Which opening would begin an oral in the weakest register?

Which order should the three moves of an HL individual oral presentation take?

Which annotation is most worth making before analysing an extract?

Which sentence embeds its quotation most effectively?

Find the word in paragraph 1 which means "not caring one way or the other".