LIT THINGS

2018 – 2024 Paper 3 is a topic-based paper.

• Examine the ways in which writers offer insight into how consciousness is linked to:
  • Social contexts
  • Identity
  • Individuality

• Explore how interaction between mind and self underscores various forms of revelation and discovery.

Areas of Study

• Inherent stylistic features of texts
• Explore specific contexts that led to production of these texts
• How readers and audiences relate to the texts
• Engage with texts at various cognitive and affective levels

Literary Features

• Definition of:
  • Genre
  • Individual form of the text
  • Stylistic features

• How features are used by authors and to what effect

Text and Context

• Show appreciation of how texts studied relate to social, cultural and/or historical contexts
• Explorations of ideologies and assumptions in texts *be aware of events that predominated during the period
• How texts relate to movements in artistic creation *study of literary forms

Language Use

• Study of language at grammatical, lexical and structural levels
• Examine elements of style such as: register, figurative language, rhythm and language patterns
• Understanding effects of use of language to create meaning by writers from the word level through to discourse levels

Spectrum of Skills

• Make informed personal and critical responses
• Understand and comment on ways in which the historical and cultural backgrounds of the text and author inform meaning of text
• Analyse and evaluate critically the ways in which writers’ choices of form, structure and language shape meanings

1. Understand elements of literary genres
2. Analyse literary form:
   – Structure
   – Setting
   – Character
   – Conflict
   – Plot
   – Methods of characterisation
   – Themes
3. Analyse stylistic devices:
   – Voice
   – Persona
   – Symbolism
   – Irony
   – Mood
   – Tone
4. Analyse use of language:
   – Register
   – Diction
   – Tone
   – Imagery
   – Rhythm
5. Recognise imaginative or dramatic techniques for creating effects
6. Sustained interpretation supported by appropriate and detailed references
7. Present evaluative/critical comparison and make connection between texts

Elements

• Plot
• Character
• Conflict
• Setting
• Narrator
• Themes

Style

• Structure and organisation
• POV
• Diction
• Syntax
• Tone
• Imagery
• Figurative language