IB Student Blog: How to write a commentary.
Clear explanation of When and How to write a Prose. There’s just one rule for writing prose: don’t write verse by mistake. If you grew up in the modern world, chances are you’ve been writing prose since the day you started stringing sentences together on a page.
How 'Writing Unseen Commentaries' will help you. If you are an International Baccalaureate student following the Language A (English) Literature course, the Help Book will be invaluable to you as you prepare for the important Literary Analysis or Literary Commentary part of the final written exam. It makes use of many passages from past IB exam.
External Assessment (2 hours) 25% of overall mark The paper consists of two pairs of unseen texts. Students write a comparative analysis of one pair of texts. (20 marks).
If you're writing a commentary about the Life of Pi (that was our practice one), don't be stupid and say the tiger seems scared and so does the kid. Analyze the reasons for what's going on in the excerpt.
This is not a template for how to write a poem commentary but is just one possible way to consider how to approach writing about a poem. You may very well choose a different form! Do consider what is being addressed in each paragraph, however. Introduction. State the poem's title, author, and a small introduction to the poem's overall literal.
This can include things like theme, author commentary or choices, overall character analysis, how literature reflects a time period, etc. - really, the list of possible topics for overall analysis.
Prose in Nonfiction. Here are examples of prose found in nonfiction sources, such as newspapers, magazines, history books and encyclopedias: Some of the exports of Brazil are soybeans, sugar, orange juice and iron ore. The cheetah is the fastest land animal. Tomorrow we have a sixty percent chance of snow with a high temperature around 34 degrees.