Medium-difficulty flashcards covering key terms, concepts, and assessment criteria for the IBDP Language A: Language and Literature course non-literary units.
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Context of Production
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The circumstances in which a text is written, including the author's background, time period, and cultural or political environment. Understanding this helps explain *why* certain stylistic choices were made.
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Context of Reception
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The circumstances in which a text is read or viewed. Since audiences change over time, the meaning of a text can shift depending on who is reading it and when (e.g., a 19th-century novel read today).
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Stylistic Features
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The specific linguistic and visual devices used by authors to construct meaning, such as diction, imagery, sentence structure, tone, and layout. Analysis of these is the core of Paper 1.
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Visual Syntax
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How visual elements (images, layout, font, color) are organized to guide the reader's eye and create meaning, common in the study of advertising or graphic novels.
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Intertextuality
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A literary concept describing the relationship between texts, especially how one text references, responds to, or transforms another. It involves the ways texts echo, adapt, or rework earlier works or other cultural texts.
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