IB ENG SL YR 1 - ORAL COMMENTARY - LAST WORDS

If you are doing a commentary on Othello don't forget to talk about the genre;

1. Refer to drama and specifically Renaissance tragedy
2. Refer to the use of poetry within the drama - blank verse, iambic pentameters
3. refer to soliloquy, monologue, dialogue
4. refer to elements of courtly love
5. look out for patterns or structure within the extract you are talking about.

If you are doing a commentary on Gatsby don't forget to talk about the genre;

1. Refer to a modern novel
2. refer to the key elements of Fitzgerald's prose style - descriptive language, very concise and economic dialogue. Highly evocative - story informed by abstract ideas of the American dream and a love story - a romance
3. Refer to the third person narrator - Nick's subjective perceptive. His contempt for the kind of man Gatsby is contrasted with the strong attraction he has towards him. the one man striving for an ideal. Gatsby has a vision beyond the purely materialistic
4. refer to elements of courtly love
5. Refer to patterns or structures within the extract you are talking about.