Language A: Language and Literature · The toolkit: literary and non-literary

NONLIT — Reading non-literary and media texts

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

1. LAL_T_4

   Text type, purpose, audience and context

   How to read any non-literary text: identify the text type and its conventions, and analyse purpose, audience, context and register (the PACT toolkit).

2. LAL_T_5

   Visual and media analysis

   Analysing advertisements, images, cartoons, infographics, film and television, music video and social media: composition, framing, colour, gaze, salience, layout, mode and multimodal meaning.

3. LAL_T_6

   Rhetoric and persuasion

   How texts persuade: ethos, pathos and logos, rhetorical devices, tone and register, framing and bias, and the interplay of image and word.