Standard Module B: Close study of text

 This module involves the detailed analysis of one text from the Prescribed texts list.

Students will focus on the interaction between

• Ideas expressed in the text
• The form the composer has chosen for their text and its distinctive features, for example, prose, drama, poetry, non-fiction, film, media and multimedia, and
• The language techniques used by the composer in their text.

 Students will also consider the effect of this interaction

• in shaping meaning and 
• on the responder (reader, listener, viewer).

 Students studying a text in

•  Prose will explore the ways in which the composer expresses their ideas and their use of literary techniques.

Prose is any language not characterised by the patterns generated by the regularity of metre. It moves forward whereas verse will have elements of repetition and pattern.

Some prose forms tell a story:

• The novel

• The novella

• The short story

• Drama

Some prose forms examine lives or issues or events:

• the biography

• the essay

• journalism

• travel writing

• the treatise

•  Drama will explore the literary features of the text; the use of dramatic techniques; and the possibilities for different styles of production.

Drama is literature that is designed to be performed in a designated performance space. This form of literature comes to life when it is interpreted by the actors and their director through performance.

•  Poetry will examine  the individual features of each poem from which they will come to informed conclusions about the nature and interests expressed in the poet’s work.

• Prose

Poetry or verse is literature that is not prose because of some pattern in its design, such as imagery, rhythm or rhyme.

• Film refers to moving images that tell a story - motion pictures. These can be seen in cinemas, on television and on the internet.

• Multimedia is the use of more than one form of media to create a text such as animation, film and text in such texts as websites.

 A study of any literary form includes the impact of the specific medium of production on nonfiction, film, media, multimedia: expression of ideas.