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SQA Higher English Topics
Exam Breakdown
The Spoken Language Performance
Types of Writing
The Critical Essay
Approaching Drama and Prose
What is Involved in RUAE?
Thomas the Rhymer (traditional ballad)
Carol Ann Duffy
A Voice Spoke to me at Night by Helen McClory
The Red Door
Introduction
Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart
Preparing for the Exam
Improving your Writing
Writing a Critical Essay
Scottish Texts - Drama and Prose
Types of Questions: Understanding
Composed In August by Robert Burns
Norman MacCaig
Things My Wife and I Found Hidden in Our House by Kirsty Logan
Mother and Son
Chapter Summaries
The Slab Boys by John Byrne
Grammar
Approaching Poetry
Types of Questions: Analysis
The Bonnie Broukit Bairn by Hugh MacDiarmid
Liz Lochhead
Andrina by George Mackay Brown
The Painter
Plot
Poetic Techniques
Types of Questions: Analysing Sentence Structure
Summit of Corrie Etchachan by Nan Shepherd
Don Paterson
Death In A Nut as told by Duncan Williamson
The Existence of the Hermit
Background and Context
Types of Questions: Analysing Punctuation
Da Clearance by Rhoda Bulter
Imtiaz Dharker
Characters
Types of Questions: Analysing Tone
33 by MacGillivray
Kathleen Jamie
Themes
Types of Questions: Evaluation
Writer's Techniques
Making Comparisons
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