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Critical Reading: Scottish Set Text
Quick questions on Scottish set text prose: analysing the novel or short story - SQA National 5 English
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What is know the whole text for the 8 mark question?Show answer
The 8 mark question rewards references from across the text. For a novel, build a quotation bank around its main themes and characters from across the chapters; for short stories, know the writer's set stories well, since the question may ask you to show a theme across moments of a single story. Either way, prepare references beyond the extract in advance.
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What does analysing narrative voice involve? [2 marks]
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Why does retelling the plot score nothing? [1 mark]
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For a short story, what does "elsewhere in the text" mean in the 8 mark question? [1 mark]
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