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Critical Reading: Scottish Set Texts
Quick questions on Analysing Scottish set text poetry: poem and wider-selection question - SQA Higher English
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What is the final question needs the wider selection?Show answer
The commonality question asks how a theme or technique in the printed poem also appears elsewhere in the selection. Plan two or three points from other poems, each with a short memorised quotation, so you can move beyond the printed text. An answer confined to the printed poem caps in the lowest band, because the bulk of the marks reward the discussion of the other poems.
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What does the final poetry commonality question require beyond the printed poem, and roughly how are its marks split? [2 marks]
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Name two structural features you should analyse in a set text poem, with the effect each can create. [2 marks]
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A commonality question asks how the poet explores identity. Which other poems would you plan to use and why? [3 marks]
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