IB English Quiz

What is the definition of mass communication.

• Anything that is broadcast on TV

• Any form of communication that intentionally goes beyond a communicative act between two parties.

• Anything can become mass communication if you publish it on social media

• Delivering a formal oral presentation to a class is a form of mass communication.

When was this poster created?

• 2018

• 2019

• 2009

• 2008

Does it matter when this poster was created and is there a significant social/historical context to this?

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A text that is effective in its function should:

• Have an engaging and conversational tone

• Reveal things about the speaker/writer

• Engage with the issues while also employing some intellectual distance

• Use literary language such as simile/metaphor/imagery

• all of the above

complete the missing word in this question/s based on a previous lesson:

Can ________ be seen as a form of border or boundary? How fluid is this boundary?

What is this an advert for?

• A new Chinese video game

• A Chinese online shopping website

• A Chinese New Year festival

Check all that apply: What elements of this are typical to advertising.

• Images make up a large part of the text.

• Items are placed to seem desirable

• Images in this text are specifically chosen to appeal to a wide variety of consumers

• It displays views of the past that relate to a majority consumer.

What do you understand by the term, postmodernism?

• something that is related to modernism but has more specific foundations in rejecting political ideologies or theories in its work.

• associated with fiction or work that has fragmented forms and a eclectic or randomness in style.

• a work that seeks to question the possibility of knowledge and truth as ever being a knowable theme

Select the correct meaning for the word 'persuasive'

• A work that focusing on presenting a specific point of view

• Work that focuses on convincing, no matter the regard to position

• A presentation of better ideas than your own to explain why a given theory is wrong

• A literature that contains inherent truths which it teaches us to recognise

What do you understand by the term 'dogmatic'

• work that focuses on the human behaviour and relationships or, how one should behave properly in society.

• work that focuses on the visual elements of a text.

• Work that makes sense of the self.

• work that addresses a higher human truth.