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Critical Reading: Scottish Set Text
Quick questions on Scottish set text poetry: poem and wider-selection question - SQA National 5 English
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What is link the printed poem to the wider selection?Show answer
The 8 mark question is where knowing the whole selection pays off. Identify the named theme in the printed poem, then show it in one or two other poems by the same poet, each with a short quotation and a comment. The other poems carry up to 6 of the 8 marks, so plan two or three points from across the selection, not one.
What is build a theme map of the selection?Show answer
Because the question links across poems, prepare a theme map: for each poem in the selection, note its main themes and one or two key quotations with the technique they show. Then whatever theme the question names, you can quickly find it across several poems and quote from each.
What is q1?Show answer
Why must you know every poem in the selection, not just the printed one? [2 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Name three kinds of poetic technique you can analyse. [1 mark]
What is q3?Show answer
What is a theme map and why is it useful? [2 marks]
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