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** IOCs ** **Tips on Oral Assessment: What to focus on...** A - Knowledge and Understanding Of The Work … 5
 * Subtleties of the extract
 * Understanding of why the extract is important
 * Placed extract accurately, knew complete context

B - Interpretation And Personal Response … 10
 * Valid, considered critical response
 * Significance and implication of literary devices
 * Independent critical thinking
 * Use highly specific references to justify arguments

C - Presentation … 10
 * Purposeful and effective structure and order to presentation
 * Focused and coherent and persuasive
 * References well integrated

D - Use of Language … 5
 * Speech is clear, varied in tone and pace
 * Grammar is correct
 * Sophisticated language with varied word choice is powerful and convincing

**TALKING HEADS - BENNETT - 1988** Written for BBC TV Maggie Smith (Susan) & Patricia Routledge (Irene)
 * Talking Heads - Alan Bennett - 1988**


 * Style**
 * Monologues - what does that form imply?
 * Humour comes as characters "don't quite know what they are saying"
 * Tragedy into comedy (we laugh at alcoholism/marital affairs/bigot etc)


 * Language**
 * Quintessentially English; colloquial; self-deprecating; humour; pathos; idiom
 * Social background
 * Characters can have elements of caricature


 * Characters**
 * Pretence of normality
 * Subsidiary characters - Stereotypical, full of jargon (again, humorous)
 * Refusal to face truth
 * Sarcasm
 * Talking //at// you.
 * Largely unhappy characters

** Othello - Shakespeare - 1603/4 ** aka Othello The Moor of Venice
 * Othello - Shakespeare - 1604**


 * Language**
 * Iambic Pentameter - 5 feet; unstress/stress; 10 beats/syllables: rhythm, flow
 * Rhyming Couplets
 * Occasional Prose
 * Feminine Endings
 * Stichomythia


 * Themes**
 * Betrayal/Deception
 * Jealousy
 * Honesty - Iago referred to Honest 20 times
 * Good vs Evil
 * Order vs Chaos
 * Love
 * Racism
 * Control


 * Other bits...**
 * Venice - Cyprus
 * Deterioration of Language
 * Symbolism - animals, poison, handkerchief, magic
 * What was Iago's motive?
 * Foreshadowing
 * Irony

**Plath, Sylvia** 1932 - 11 Feb 1963 "archangel of confessional poetry" (Drennan) "at once confessional, lyrical and symbolic" (Hinkle)
 * Sylvia Plath**


 * Key poems**
 * Cut - 1962
 * Widow - ?
 * Insomniac - 1961
 * Lady Lazarus* - 1962
 * Daddy* (Oct 12 1962)


 * Key Ideas...**
 * Confessional Poetry
 * Autobiographical nature of works
 * Suicide, death, mutilation references
 * Rich Imagery - often private imagery
 * Strong metaphors
 * Direct - yet allusive?
 * Colours
 * Senses
 * Jewish/Holocaust Imagery
 * Daddy issues
 * Alternate reality?
 * Voicing a long suppressed rage
 * Religion
 * Taboo
 * Unique sense of rhythm, rhyme and meter
 * Feminist criticism

**The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 1926**
 * The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - 1926**
 * Voice - Nick's lack of prejudice
 * Context - American Dream/Jazz Age/Prohibition
 * Set in 1922
 * Non-linear Chronology


 * Symbolism**
 * Daisy
 * Cars
 * Light
 * Eyes
 * TJ Eckleburg
 * East/West
 * Valley of Ashes
 * Colours (esp yellow/gold/white/grey)
 * Weather


 * Themes**
 * Decay
 * Dreams
 * Appearance vs Reality
 * Morals and Corruption
 * Values
 * Carelessness


 * Characters**
 * Who is Gatsby?
 * Ch 5 Gatsby: Embarrassment - Joy - Wonder
 * Gatsby's dream - repeat the past
 * Daisy's Voice - Siren - Deathless song
 * Tom "Hulking brute of a man" who "savours of anti-climax"