Mishima

 https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Evanescence+and+tragic+beauty%3A+an+existential+reading+of+Yukio...-a0288874221

http://www.aems.illinois.edu/publications/lessonplans/chalk/chalk_15.html

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2014/08/09/books/book-reviews/temple-golden-pavilion/

https://bibliojunkie.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/when-beauty-led-to-destruction/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25790897

see also study document in downloads

cover page

 

Preposition practice

 Take a screenshot after each pls

1. start here
2. then here
3. then here
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Explanations are here, only as required .

Mook

 

The Menu

The Menu

Remember that the Medium is the Message; Each text type in and of itself has an internal message to its very form.
(speak to that as you analyse it, and criticise if the content clashes with the means of delivery/medium)

What is the text type?
How is the piece presented overall?
How is it divided up? (if at all)


How do the visuals speak to/inform the text (and vice-versa)?


How do the visuals work?

Right to left?
Rule of thirds?
Hierarchy?
Eye-line?
implied movement?
hard or soft edges? (remember the video in the office)
Colour?
graphics?
and where are the visuals in proximity to the written text, to each other (if more than one)





What rhetorical devices are employed to focus the reader and why?

contrast/ juxtaposition
listing (rule of three)
repetition (anaphora, alliteration, consonance, assonance, rhyme)
hyperbole
understatement
use of 'facts'
jargon
naming
attempts to engender empathy
attempts to engender sympathy
appeal to desire
appeal to fear
appeal to authority  (and what kind in each instance)
syllogisms
analogies

propaganda techniques
straw man
bandwagon
what about 'ism
transference

glittering generalities

diction

syntax




What poetic devices are used?

stanzas

caesura

enjambment

What literary devices are used?

Imagery

figurative language

• metaphors
• personification
• similes
• onomatopoeia

Who is/are the audience and why?

Serif, Sans Serif

 

TOK Essay videos and exemplar 2020

 

The actual essay is here

the scoring rubric is here

Another A TOK essay here

Scoring of that paper here

analysis of that paper in videos with yours truly here 

A how to guide here

Some board notes here

another exemplar of sorts, colour coded

 

exemplar sort of