IB YR 2 ENGLISH - WORK OVER EASTER

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Here are all the questions that were set in the mock exam. You should write at least one other from this list and write a plan for the other.

Answer one essay question only. You must base your answer on at least two of the Part 3 works you have studied. You may include in your answer a discussion of a Part 2 work of the same genre if relevant.

 

Answers which are not based on a discussion of at least two Part 3 works will not score high marks.

 

 

Drama

• Explore the ways in which dramatists have made use of monologues and/or soliloquies in at least two plays you have studied.

• Plays employ various kinds of structural divisions such as prologues, and epilogues, act and scenme divisions, even carefully placed intermissions. Discuss the dramatic uses made of these divisions in at least two plays you have studied.

• "A play should make you laugh or make you cry." With reference to at lest two plays you have studied, discuss the methods playwrights use to generate emotional responses in their audiences.

IB PAPER 2 GROUPS OF WORK QUESTIONS

 

Here are a number of past questions for youi to be working on in relation to the three plays you have studied for this part of the course.

 

• Some plays appeal more to the head than the heart, while others seem to want to evoke an emotional response. Referring to at least two works you have studied, discuss with specific evidence the ways in which playwrights have appealed either to the “heads” or the “hearts” of their audiences, or to both.

• Drama sometimes invites us to become acquainted with times and cultures not our own. What particular situations perhaps different to your own circumstances have at least two playwrights included in their plays and by what dramatic means have they delivered them to their audiences?

•  “The compulsion to talk,” to tell one’s story, or the stories of others might be seen as very important to the construction of plays. How far has the telling of stories been important to at least two plays you have studied and how have the “stories” been effectively delivered through theatre?
• The climax of a dramatic work does not always occur in a fixed or expected place. Comparing at least two works you have studied, discuss the placement of the climactic moment of the plays and the effects on dramatic action.

• Most plays have stage direction; some have none or almost none. What do you see as the relevance of stage directions in at least 2 plays you have studied?

 

• Plays frequently explore moral or ethical dimensions of choices people make.  Discuss in at least 2 plays the dramatic handling of such issues.

 

• Drama sometimes invites us to become acquainted with times and cultures not our own. What particular situations, perhaps different to your own circumstances, have at least two playwrights included in their plays and by what dramatic means have they delivered them to their audiences.

 

• Compare the choices made by playwrights in creating the endings of their plays. Refer closely to at least two plays.  (OR BEGINNINGS)
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• "Plays are rarely either tragic or comic but a mixture of the two.” Using two or three plays you have studied, say how far you would agree with this statement, supporting your view with address of both content and form.