Language A: Literature · The seven concepts

CONCEPTS — The seven concepts

Language A: Literature · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. LL_C_1

   Identity

   The complex relationship between authors, the voices and perspectives they create, and the identity a reader brings to interpretation.

2. LL_C_2

   Culture

   How a text relates to the values and context of its production and reception, and to the literary tradition around it.

3. LL_C_3

   Creativity

   The role of imagination in writing and reading, originality, and the range of meanings a reader can generate from a text.

4. LL_C_4

   Communication

   The relationship a text builds between writer and reader, and how choices of style and structure shape that exchange.

5. LL_C_5

   Perspective

   The many viewpoints in and around a text: those of characters, the writer, and readers across time and place.

6. LL_C_6

   Transformation

   How texts rework, adapt and respond to other texts, and how meaning changes across forms, versions and readings.

7. LL_C_7

   Representation

   How form and language re-present reality, and the relationship between the world and its portrayal in a text.