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Critical Reading: Scottish Set Texts
Quick questions on Analysing Scottish set text prose: extract and wider-text question - SQA Higher English
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What is the final question needs the wider text?Show answer
The commonality question asks how a theme or technique in the extract runs through the wider work. For a novel, draw on other chapters and the arc; for a short story collection, draw on other stories that share the theme. Plan one or two points from the extract and two or three from elsewhere, each with a quotation or close reference. An extract-only answer caps in the lowest band.
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Name two prose techniques you should analyse in a set text extract, with what each can reveal. [2 marks]
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For a short story collection, where does the final commonality question expect you to find supporting evidence, and why? [2 marks]
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A commonality question asks how the writer presents memory. List the moments you would plan to use and the technique you would analyse in each. [3 marks]
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