Subject: English Format: Commentary “The Visitor” by Gibbons Ruark Through rich‚ sensory details with flowing‚ enjambed lines‚ “The Visitor” by Gibbons Ruark is an elegant prose poem which elaborates on the sensuality of music through the vivid experiences of the first person narrator instead of the visit of a piano tuner‚ the inferred visitor in the title. Utilizing the narrator’s impressions‚ Ruark portrays the ‘blind’ (l. 1) piano tuner in the first lines as a frail‚ vulnerable‚ dependent
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o Create outline – use line numbers from extract to find your place (color code!) (10 minutes) • Presentation time – 13 – 15 minutes o You talk uninterrupted for 10 – 12 minutes **10 is the magic number for your own uninterrupted commentary o I ask follow-up questions for 2 – 4 minutes Fact Sheet for Part 2 Works Example – The Catcher in the Rye Note: Catcher will NOT be on the IOC; this is just a sample! |Category |Example
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QASMT Yr 10 Pre-IB English Commentary on a Speech A Guide to Preparing Your Draft DRAFTING THE INTRODUCTION Using the information from your planning doc‚ write the introduction. DRAFTING THE BODY Writing a commentary is just the same as writing an essay in many respects. Both commentaries and essays all have: A Subject Statement which usually highlights one of the themes (Ideas) that is explored. Arguments are the ways in which this Subject statement is explored eg through the use
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Tyler Every March 25‚ 2013 Written Commentary 6: Venice by Jan Morris The author’s purpose is to describe the setting by contrasting her culture to Venice and by using irony to display the people‚ surroundings and daily life. A mother who just started living in Venice is telling us about the setting and her life in Venice. She uses irony‚ humor and contrast to build the imagery of the city and people. Throughout the passage the author uses irony to convey the surroundings and the image
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Macbeth Commentary During life everybody has a downfall of sort‚ some maybe more significant than others. In selection #3 the purpose is to show the beginning of Macbethʼs downfall. Shakespeare uses literary devices like irony and the use of exclamation marks to illustrate this. Irony is used throughout Shakespeare’s plays‚ in Macbeth the device irony is used frequently. An example is at the dinner when Macbeth says “And to our dear friend Banquo‚ whom we miss:/Would he were here
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‘Frankenstein’ - Commentary The extract from ‘Frankenstein’ by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is a narrative of Victor Frankenstein‚ a scientist‚ who has created life from dead matter. He has made a promise to his creature that he would create another monster – a female – for his companionship. He has been working hard on this task alone in his laboratory. Victor contemplates the ramifications of his work on society. He fears that the new monster may become wicked and treacherous‚ maybe even worse
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Commentary Two of the main macroeconomic objectives are low inflation rates and high economic growth. In an economy inflation is the persistent increase in price levels over a period of time while economic growth is an increase in real GDP (value of economic output adjusted for inflation). Most times‚ government stifles economic growth as they disregard it to concentrate solemnly on finding a solution for high inflation. This is presently one of India’s greatest problems as it struggles to combat
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Economics Internal Assessment Writing a Commentary on News article Task 1 Headline: Pharmaceutical giant Paladol misjudge its market by raising the price on its best-selling headache relief tablet. Price elasticity of demand (PED) is a measure of the responsiveness or sensitivity of consumers to a change in the price of a particular good. In this article‚ Paladol raised the price of its product‚ which was a mistake; there are a lot of other medicines for a headache and most of them would
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George Orwell ’s 1984‚ is a novel about the life of Winston Smith living in a totalitarianism state where Big Brother has control‚ power and dominates the lives of citizens. There are many significant paragraphs which stand out in the book however I extracted the passage on pages 127‚ 128 from "Folly‚ Folly‚ his heart....." to "...the absence of a telescreen" because it has great literary insight and significant elements of symbolism behind it.(This is where Winston heard the prole women singing
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COMMENTARY Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a complex literary piece that through diction‚ symbolism‚ and imagery explores the typical human inclination to push boundaries and the corollary that comes with these actions. The use of diction in the excerpt builds intricate characters that question and challenge the reader’s ideas. As a main component of the story’s theme in an overall sense‚ as well as in the passage‚ the allegory and representation of the characters form a new interpretation of the
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