The critical essay: SQA National 5 English Section 2 quiz quiz

10 marks

15 marks

20 marks

30 marks

It must be the same genre as your Scottish set text

It must be a different genre from your Scottish set text

It must always be poetry

It must be non-fiction

Only drama and prose

Drama, prose, poetry, film and television drama, or language

Only poetry

Only non-fiction passages

Retell the plot of the text

Name the text and writer, engage the question's key words, and signal the line of thought

Give the writer's biography

List every technique in the text

Point, evidence, analysis, link to the question

Summary, summary, summary, summary

Quotation, quotation, quotation, quotation

Introduction, body, body, conclusion

The length of the essay

A clear line of thought in which every paragraph stays relevant to the question

The number of quotations

The size of the handwriting

From the quotation itself

From naming the technique and explaining its effect, linked to the question

From the length of the quotation

From the number of quotations per paragraph

They keep the focus on the technique you want to analyse

They are easier to memorise only

They prove you read the whole text

They fill more of the page

Dialogue, stage directions, staging, characterisation, conflict and dramatic irony

Mise-en-scene and camera angles

Register and rhetorical devices

Rhythm and rhyme only

Paraphrasing the poem instead of analysing technique

Quoting too briefly

Naming the poet

Using a conclusion

Media technique: mise-en-scene, camera, editing, sound and music

Only the script's dialogue

Register and tone only

Rhyme and rhythm

The purpose of the language and its intended audience

The number of paragraphs

The film's plot

The poet's biography

A question your text genuinely answers keeps the analysis relevant and flowing

Harder questions are worth more marks

The first question is always best

It does not matter which question you choose

Draw the points together into an overall answer to the question

Introduce new evidence

Repeat the introduction word for word

Summarise the plot