Scottish set text key evidence

Question 1

Originally key evidence 1

Red room

Answer 1

” We came from our own country in a red room which fell through the fields”

(could analyse word choice and imagery)

Question 2

Originally key evidence 2

Emigration

Answer 2

“All childhood is an emigration.”

(could analyse word choice)

Question 3

Originally key evidence 3

Shedding its skin like a snake

Answer 3

“I remember my tongue shedding its skin like a snake, (my voice in the classroom sounding just like the rest.)”

(could analyse imagery and connotations)

Question 4

Originally key evidence 4

Strangers ask

Answer 4

“Now, where do you come from? strangers ask. Originally? And I hesitate.”

(could analyse structure and connotations)

Question 5

Mrs Tilscher’s Class key evidence 1

Blue Nile

Answer 5

“You could travel up the Blue Nile with your finger”

and

“Mrs Tilscher chanted the scenery”

(could analyse imagery for both, connotations for ‘chanted’ and metaphor for ‘travel’)

Question 6

Mrs Tilscher’s Class key evidence 2

Brady and Hindley

Answer 6

“Sugar paper. Coloured shapes.”

and

“Brady and Hindley faded, like the faint, uneasy smudge of a mistake.”

(could analyse imagery and connotations for both)

Question 7

Mrs Tilscher’s Class key evidence 3

Rough boy

Answer 7

“A rough boy told you how you were born.”

(could analyse word choice and connotations)

Question 8

Mrs Tilscher’s Class key evidence 4

Thunderstorm

Answer 8

“You ran through the gates, impatient to be grown”

and

“the sky split open into a thunderstorm.”

(could analyse symbolism in both)

Question 9

Valentine key evidence 1

Onion

Answer 9

“I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown
paper.
It promises light.”

(could analyse structure and word choice)

Question 10

Valentine key evidence 2

Grief

Answer 10

“It will make your reflection a wobbling photo of grief.”

(could analyse connotations and imagery)

Question 11

Valentine key evidence 3

Platinum hoops

Answer 11

“Its platinum hoops shrink to a wedding ring, if you like.”

(could analyse connotations)

Question 12

Valentine key evidence 4

Lethal

Answer 12

“Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your
fingers,
cling to your knife.”

(could analyse tone and imagery)

Question 13

Mrs Midas key evidence 1

The kitchen

Answer 13

“The kitchen filled with the smell of itself, relaxed”

(could analyse imagery/symbolism)

Question 14

Mrs Midas key evidence 2

golden chalice

Answer 14

“he picked up the glass, goblet, golden chalice, drank. it was then I started to scream.”

(could analyse tone and structure)

Question 15

Mrs Midas key evidence 3

Work of art

Answer 15

“But now I feared his honeyed embrace, the kiss that would turn my lips into a work of art.”

(could analyse connotations and imagery, juxtaposition)

Question 16

Mrs Midas key evidence 4

Child

Answer 16

“I dreamt I bore his child, its perfect ore limbs…”

(could analyse connotations and tone)

Question 17

Mrs Midas key evidence 5

Idiocy or greed

Answer 17

“What gets me now is not the idiocy or greed, but lack of thought for me”

(could analyse tone and word choice)

Question 18

Mrs Midas key evidence 6

His warm hands

Answer 18

“I miss most, even now, his hands, his warm hands on my skin, his touch.”

(could analyse tone and structure)

Question 19

Mrs Midas key evidence 7

The other side of the room

Answer 19

“I made him sit
on the other side of the room”

(could analyse structure and tone)

Question 20

Originally key evidence 5

Answer 20

“I stared at the eyes of a blind toy”
(could analyse symbolism)