Literary Study: SQA Advanced Higher English Question Paper 1 quiz quiz

10 marks

20 marks

30 marks

40 marks

An analysis of one unseen text

A single comparative critical essay on studied texts in one genre

A personal reflective essay

A dissertation of 3,000 words

Any text written after 1900

The texts you are using for your dissertation

Any text not on an SQA set text list

Poetry, which is never allowed

The length of the essay

A genuine, sustained comparative argument across the texts

The number of quotations used

Writing about three or more texts

It uses too many quotations

It reads as two essays stapled together, not one comparative argument

It is too short to score

It ignores the genre of the texts

Plot, setting, length and ending

Characterisation, structure, style and language

Author, period, genre and theme

Rhyme, metre, stanza and line

To fill the time available

To show command of the complete work, which the upper bands reward

Because the opening is never important

To avoid quoting the famous scenes

A summary of both plots

A comparative thesis: the relationship you will argue across the texts

A list of every technique you will mention

The historical background of each writer

Summarise each text separately

Reach a justified judgement that weighs the texts

Introduce a new piece of evidence

Apologise for any gaps

As a label, by stating the genre of each text

As a tool, by analysing how a convention creates a precise effect

Only in the introduction

They are not relevant at Advanced Higher

Whether it shows you have read widely

Whether you can return to the text and read a technique more sharply because of it

Whether it is about the writer's life

Whether it is at least a paragraph long

Firstly, secondly, finally

Similarly, by contrast, whereas

For example, such as, including

Therefore, thus, hence

Because it is too short

Because it reports events rather than analysing how meaning is made

Because it never mentions the writer

Because it uses too many quotations

Count the words in each

Ask what each paragraph adds that the previous one did not

Make sure each is the same length

Ensure each starts with a quotation