IN THE SNACK-BAR
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IN THE SNACK-BAR 12THE SCOTTISH TEXT QUESTIONSIf you have studied all three of the poems about encounters, ‘Trio’, ‘Good Friday’ and ‘In TheSnack-bar’, you can also now try the Scottish set text questions about this poem.First, re-read ‘In The Snack-Bar’ and answer these questions:1. Show how two examples of the poet’s use of language in stanza one help to create apicture of the old man. 42. Show how two examples of the poet’s use of language in stanza two help to convey thenature of the journey to the toilet. 43. The message of the poem comes across clearly in the second stanza. Show how oneexample of the poet’s language in this stanza helps to clarify this message. 24. The narrator’s response to the old man comes across clearly in the third stanza. Show howone example of the poet’s language in this stanza helps to clarify this response. 2The last question is worth 8 marks and needs a much bigger answer. If you want to get 5 marks ormore for the 8-mark final question, you MUST compare this poem to two others poems – probablyTrio and Good Friday.You can, if you wish, tackle this as a kind of mini essay. It’s also possible to approach this questionby giving a set of bullet pointed answers that all fit together to form a complete response.Here’s the question:5. With close textual reference, show how the ideas and/ or language of this poem are similarto another poem or poems by Morgan that you have read. 8When you have written your answers, give them to your teacher to mark.© Jane Cooper, 2013, by permission of the authorDownloaded from www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learnJane Cooper’s National 4 & 5 English is available from Hodder Gibson.
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<strong>IN</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>SNACK</strong>-<strong>BAR</strong> 12<strong>THE</strong> SCOTTISH TEXT QUESTIONSIf you have studied all three of the poems about encounters, ‘Trio’, ‘Good Friday’ and ‘In TheSnack-bar’, you can also now try the Scottish set text questions about this poem.First, re-read ‘In The Snack-Bar’ and answer these questions:1. Show how two examples of the poet’s use of language in stanza one help to create apicture of the old man. 42. Show how two examples of the poet’s use of language in stanza two help to convey thenature of the journey to the toilet. 43. The message of the poem comes across clearly in the second stanza. Show how oneexample of the poet’s language in this stanza helps to clarify this message. 24. The narrator’s response to the old man comes across clearly in the third stanza. Show howone example of the poet’s language in this stanza helps to clarify this response. 2The last question is worth 8 marks and needs a much bigger answer. If you want to get 5 marks ormore for the 8-mark final question, you MUST compare this poem to two others poems – probablyTrio and Good Friday.You can, if you wish, tackle this as a kind of mini essay. It’s also possible to approach this questionby giving a set of bullet pointed answers that all fit together to form a complete response.Here’s the question:5. With close textual reference, show how the ideas and/ or language of this poem are similarto another poem or poems by Morgan that you have read. 8When you have written your answers, give them to your teacher to mark.© Jane Cooper, 2013, by permission of the authorDownloaded from www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/learnJane Cooper’s National 4 & 5 English is available from Hodder Gibson.
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