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Quick questions on Analysing whole texts in depth: SQA Advanced Higher English Literary Study
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What is know the four dimensions of a text?Show answer
Advanced Higher expects you to analyse a text on four fronts. Characterisation: how figures are constructed and developed. Structure: how the text is shaped (chronology, framing, parallels, withheld information). Style: the writer's habitual choices of voice, register and technique.
What is q1?Show answer
Name the four dimensions on which Advanced Higher expects you to analyse a text. [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why are short embedded quotations more useful than long passages? [2 marks]
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What does ranging across the whole text show the marker? [1 mark]
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