STRUCTURE YOUR ANSWER

A comparison between two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’. The effect can be any number of things. However, it adds a visual emphasis or impact to a written description. He’s like a dog with a bone. Metaphor.

Imagery Questions

1. Identify each as a simile, metaphor or personification.
2. Work out what is being compared to what.
3. Discuss how the two are similar.

1. State the type of imagery (Simile, Metaphor, Personification)
2. Identify the image (what is being compared to what?)
3. Give the literal meaning of the image (Just as…)
4. Explain the connection between the two (so too…)
5. Explain the effect of the image.

Imagery is a feature of written and spoken language that occurs whenever someone has chosen to use language in a non-literal way. It is used to heighten the effect of language and is often an extension of word-choice. Normally an image will extend to a phrase or a few words but sometimes it will be longer.

In a Describe question you have to describe what happened during an event or issue. Describe questions are worth 4 marks. You need to make four relevant historical points to get full marks. You can get one mark for each simple point and two marks for each developed point.

When answering a question on tone, you need to be able to show how it has been achieved and this will involve looking at the word choice, the structure and type of sentence(s) used, as well as any imagery.

Answering the 5 or 6 mark question

1. A brief introduction – of one to two sentences – explaining your position on the question.
2. One to two body paragraphs that present at least two examples from each text.
3. Each paragraph should have a topic sentence that introduces it.
4. Each example should be in a T.E.E.L structure.

How to Do a Close Reading

1. Read with a pencil in hand, and annotate the text.
2. Look for patterns in the things you’ve noticed about the text—repetitions, contradictions, similarities.
3. Ask questions about the patterns you’ve noticed—especially how and why.

It is important that you know how to analyse a range of language features. Typically, the following language features crop up in National 5 RUAE papers: sentence structure (short/minor sentences, parenthesis, lists, punctuation etc.) imagery (metaphors, similes, personification) word choice.

How to Pass Higher English

1. know what your exam entails – Higher-level exams are more intense and exacting than National exams.
2. know what’s expected of you: simply saying ‘a passing grade’ vastly oversimplifies the SQA criteria.
3. find learning resources, study aids and other materials.
4. build a study schedule and stick to it.

sentence structure (short/minor sentences, parenthesis, lists, punctuation etc.) imagery (metaphors, similes, personification) linking sentences. turning point in argument.

DEFINITION-Juxtaposition is a literary technique in which two or more ideas, places, characters and their actions are placed side by side in a narrative or a poem for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts. EXAMPLE- Life and death, rich and poor, or happy and sad.

Imagery is language used by poets, novelists and other writers to create images in the mind of the reader. Imagery includes figurative and metaphorical language to improve the reader’s experience through their senses.

Meaning. The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. The three elements together are known as a triad.