IB skill practice

Analyse point of view and reader sympathy

English A Language and Literature SL continuation skill with accessible exam-style Paper 1, Paper 2, IO, and revision practice.

Paper 1, Paper 2, IO 5 marks Difficulty 3

English A exam practice: Analyse point of view and reader sympathy

A first-person memoir extract about leaving a neighbourhood limits what the reader knows. Choose the focus that best explains reader sympathy. Use the visual organiser to keep the idea, proof, method, and effect connected. Choose the analytical focus, evidence choice, and technique choice, then select the interpretation that best explains meaning, comparison, or audience effect.

Worked practice: build the analysis

Construct the analysis one move at a time, the way an examiner reads it: focus, evidence, technique, then effect.