Suggestions+for+IOC


 * Always cover these in your commentary: **
 * Contextualization (from where in the story is the excerpt taken and what is its significance to the work as a whole)
 * Visuals. Where the characters stand, what they wear, setting, etc…
 * Themes/Motifs
 * Characterization
 * Structure of the extract – how its tone, mood/atmosphere ebbs and flows
 * Literary devices used – including (for //Macbeth// and //Hamlet)// rhyming scheme, blank verse, etc.
 * Effect on audience or reader
 * Secondary source material to show awareness of cultural and historical issues, if appropriate