Units
All 6 units of English 30-1. Each one has a concepts page to learn from, practice questions marked as you go, and quizzes built at random.
Unit 1
Reading closely: meaning, tone and purpose
Working out what a text says, what it implies, and why the writer made the choices they did.
Unit 2
Literary devices and terminology
The techniques writers use and, more importantly, what naming one lets you say about its effect.
Unit 3
Reading poetry
Form, line, sound and image — how a poem's shape carries its meaning.
Unit 4
Visual texts and rhetoric
Photographs, cartoons and advertisements as texts: composition, appeals and persuasion.
Unit 5
Personal Response to Texts
Assignment I of the diploma: responding to an idea in a text, in whatever form suits you best.
Studying for the exam?
Mix every unit together
Build a random quiz drawn from all 72 questions across every unit, at the level you choose. It is the closest thing here to a real exam.