Reading for Understanding, Analysis and Evaluation: SQA Higher English Question Paper 1 quiz quiz

Re-expressing the writer's meaning using different vocabulary and phrasing

Quoting the writer's exact phrases word for word to prove that you located them in the text

Summarising the whole passage from start to finish in detail

Analysing the writer's word choice, imagery and sentence structure

The length of the paragraph being tested

The mark allocation for the question

The number of sentences in the passage

The position of the question in the paper

Simply naming the technique that the writer has chosen to use in the line

Copying out a long quotation from the passage without any comment

A precise reference plus a comment on its effect on meaning

Stating only that the language used by the writer is effective

How many syllables the chosen word happens to contain when it is read aloud slowly

Whether the word is being used as a noun, a verb or an adjective here

How often the chosen word appears in the passage as a whole

Its connotations, the associations it carries beyond its literal meaning

Effective

Explain

Identify

Summarise

Simply stating that a particular feature is effective without explaining why

Justifying the judgement with evidence and analysis

Giving a personal opinion with no supporting evidence at all

Counting up the number of sentences used in the conclusion

Counting up exactly how many words the final paragraph of the passage contains

Listing every single technique that appears anywhere in the conclusion

Linking the conclusion back to ideas, images or tone established earlier

Re-expressing the meaning of the conclusion in your own words

Analysis of the word choice used by each of the writers

A separate summary of each of the two passages in turn

Evaluation of the conclusion of just one of the passages

Comparison of the two passages' ideas and attitudes

Because the marks are awarded for comparison, so a point about one passage alone cannot earn a comparison mark

Because the two passages are always completely identical in their viewpoint, so referring to one of them automatically covers both

Because only the second passage is ever actually examinable in this final question of the paper

Because this final question is really testing your analysis of the writer's word choice and imagery

Pairing a specific idea in Passage 1 with the matching idea found in Passage 2 throughout

Summarising Passage 1 fully, then summarising Passage 2 fully, with no linking

Identifying clearly where the two writers agree and where they disagree

Supporting each point with a brief quoted reference taken from each passage