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Quick questions on Analysing unseen poetry: SQA Advanced Higher English Textual Analysis
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What is read the sound?Show answer
Poetry is sound as well as sense. Analyse metre and any departures from it, rhyme and half-rhyme, and patterns of assonance and alliteration, always for effect. A regular metre disrupted at a moment of crisis, a full rhyme that snaps an idea shut, a soft run of sibilance that hushes a stanza, are all techniques to analyse, never just to spot.
What is q1?Show answer
What is a volta and why is it often the key to a poem's structure? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Why analyse a poem's sound as well as its sense? [2 marks]
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What is the test that separates analysis from paraphrase in poetry? [1 mark]
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