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Critical Approaches: SQA Advanced Higher English literary concepts quiz quiz

14questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What are the four genres of the course?

  2. Which is a distinctive convention of drama rather than the other genres?

  3. Why do genre conventions matter across all four components?

  4. What does it mean to use a critical approach as a tool rather than a label?

  5. Where in the course is engagement with critical approaches most expected?

  6. What does SQA reward in the use of a critical approach?

  7. Which are the four kinds of context?

  8. What is the test for whether a contextual point earns its place?

  9. Why does a slab of detached background earn nothing?

  10. What is free indirect discourse?

  11. What must always follow a critical term in your analysis?

  12. Why is an inaccurate critical term worse than no term?

  13. What is the common weakness in using literary terminology?

  14. What is the constant rule across all the critical concepts?