Swedish A Resources
Welcome to the Swedish A Resource pages! This section of the SparkSwedish website is designed to help Swedish A Literature and Language and Literature students to prepare for the Individual Oral, plan the HL Essay and revise for the exams.
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With the support of our learning materials, you can develop your analysing skills, learn how to structure a convincing essay and delivering effective oral presentations. Here, you will also find tips on how to prepare for Paper 1 and Paper 2.
To analyse means to closely examine a text to be able to understand, interpret, and make meaning of it. When analysing a literary or non-literary text, you should study it in detail, by identifying the different parts it consists of and how these parts relate to each other and to the whole text.
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When analysing a text, you need to support your claims. A strong analysis contains explanations of your ideas and evidence from the text that supports those ideas. The evidence often consists of a combination of specific details, direct quotations, and to some extent summary.
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Click here to learn how you can develop your analysing skills (in Swedish).
How can you prepare for Paper 1 – an analysis of unseen texts? Perhaps you are one of those who think that you can't prepare because the exam involves analysing texts you have never seen before. However, this is far from true. There are plenty of ways in which you can prepare for Paper 1. Here, SparkSwedish will guide you through some of these ways (in Swedish).
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How can you prepare for Paper 1 – an analysis of unseen poems and extracts from prose, drama and non-fiction? Perhaps you are one of those who think that you can't prepare because the exam involves analysing texts you have never seen before. However, this is far from true. There are plenty of ways in which you can prepare for Paper 1. Here, SparkSwedish will guide you through some of these ways (in Swedish).
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Plan and deliver an effective presentation
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It might feel daunting to prepare for the Paper 2 – The Comparative Essay. Here, you are expected to write a well-developed essay, on two of the literary works you have studied in the course, without having access to the works. But don’t worry, by following the advice given here you will be better prepared to tackle the comparative essay (in Swedish). Click here to learn more.
You will encounter a variety of genres and text types in both Swedish A courses. In Swedish Literature course the focus is on literary genres and in the language and literature course the focus is on both literary genres and different text types.
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This section of the Swedish A Resource pages gives you the key conventions of a wide range of genres and text types and provides guidance on how to approach different texts. Click here.
Anaphora, hyperbole, metonymy, onomatopoeia, and personification are all terms that are useful when analysing literary and non-literary texts. To succeed in your IB Swedish A course, you need to know and be able to use the correct terminology.
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Here you find a comprehensive glossary that contains stylistic and literary devices, and other terms that relate to the Literature and the Language and Literature courses. You can also do one of our quizzes to test your knowledge and understanding of these terms.
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