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Quick questions on Genre conventions of the four genres: SQA Advanced Higher English
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What is the conventions transfer across the course?Show answer
The reason genre conventions matter so much is transfer. The narrative voice you analyse in an unseen prose passage is the narrative voice you control in a portfolio story. The rhetoric you analyse in an unseen speech is the rhetoric you deploy in a persuasive piece. Learning the conventions once serves both the reading components and the writing, so they are the most efficient thing to master.
What is q1?Show answer
Name the four genres and one distinctive convention of each. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why do genre conventions matter across all four components, not one? [2 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Why is "imagery" a poor catch-all for analysing any genre? [1 mark]
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