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Flashcards for SQA Higher English, following the course specification (version 6.0, September 2025) and the 2025-26 Scottish set text list. Split into reading skills, the Scottish texts (one subdeck per text and per poet, with one subdeck for each poem) and critical essay terms.

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What is inside (93 subdecks)

  • 1. Reading for understanding, analysis and evaluation247 cards
    • 1. Understanding, summarising and inference28 cards
    • 2. Word choice46 cards
    • 3. Imagery and figurative language38 cards
    • 4. Sentence structure41 cards
    • 5. Punctuation15 cards
    • 6. Tone and register39 cards
    • 7. Text structure and linkage22 cards
    • 8. Evaluation, evidence and persuasion18 cards
  • 2. Scottish texts668 cards
    • 2.01 Drama: Sequamur by Donald S Murray12 cards
      • 1. Sequamur12 cards
    • 2.02 Drama: Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart30 cards
      • 1. Plot14 cards
      • 2. Characters8 cards
      • 3. Themes and techniques8 cards
    • 2.03 Drama: The Slab Boys by John Byrne29 cards
      • 1. Plot13 cards
      • 2. Characters8 cards
      • 3. Themes and techniques8 cards
    • 2.04 Prose: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson47 cards
      • 1. Plot13 cards
      • 2. Characters8 cards
      • 3. Key quotations14 cards
      • 4. Themes, setting and context12 cards
    • 2.05 Prose: The Sunlight Pilgrims by Jenni Fagan14 cards
      • 1. The Sunlight Pilgrims14 cards
    • 2.06 Prose: Short stories by Iain Crichton Smith33 cards
      • 1. The Red Door11 cards
      • 2. Mother and Son9 cards
      • 3. The Painter10 cards
    • 2.07 Prose: Scottish short stories (crossover collection)50 cards
      • 1. A Voice Spoke to Me at Night13 cards
      • 2. Things My Wife and I Found Hidden in Our House13 cards
      • 3. Andrina11 cards
      • 4. Death in a Nut10 cards
    • 2.08 Poetry: Carol Ann Duffy77 cards
      • 1. Originally12 cards
      • 2. Mrs Midas12 cards
      • 3. In Mrs Tilscher's Class11 cards
      • 4. Medusa11 cards
      • 5. Havisham11 cards
      • 6. Before You Were Mine11 cards
    • 2.09 Poetry: Norman MacCaig66 cards
      • 1. Aunt Julia11 cards
      • 2. Hotel Room, 12th Floor10 cards
      • 3. Basking Shark10 cards
      • 4. On Lachie's Croft10 cards
      • 5. Landscape and I10 cards
      • 6. Old Highland Woman10 cards
    • 2.10 Poetry: Liz Lochhead64 cards
      • 1. My Rival's House10 cards
      • 2. Last Supper10 cards
      • 3. Box Room10 cards
      • 4. For My Grandmother Knitting9 cards
      • 5. The Spaces Between10 cards
      • 6. Sorting Through10 cards
    • 2.11 Poetry: Don Paterson58 cards
      • 1. Waking with Russell9 cards
      • 2. 11:00: Baldovan8 cards
      • 3. The Circle9 cards
      • 4. The Thread9 cards
      • 5. The Swing9 cards
      • 6. Why Do You Stay Up So Late?9 cards
    • 2.12 Poetry: Imtiaz Dharker62 cards
      • 1. Bairn9 cards
      • 2. Bloom9 cards
      • 3. Letters to Glasgow10 cards
      • 4. Send this10 cards
      • 5. Stitch10 cards
      • 6. The Knot9 cards
    • 2.13 Poetry: Kathleen Jamie62 cards
      • 1. Crossing the Loch9 cards
      • 2. Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead9 cards
      • 3. Ospreys10 cards
      • 4. Song of Sunday9 cards
      • 5. The Morrow-bird10 cards
      • 6. What the Clyde said, after COP2610 cards
    • 2.14 Poetry: Higher Scottish poetry collection64 cards
      • 1. Thomas the Rhymer10 cards
      • 2. Composed in August10 cards
      • 3. The Bonnie Broukit Bairn10 cards
      • 4. Summit of Corrie Etchachan11 cards
      • 5. Da Clearance10 cards
      • 6. 3310 cards
  • 3. Critical essay230 cards
    • 1. Terms for any text28 cards
    • 2. Drama35 cards
    • 3. Prose fiction28 cards
    • 4. Prose non-fiction17 cards
    • 5. Poetry62 cards
    • 6. Film and television drama38 cards
    • 7. Language22 cards

Some of its cards

  • Who wrote Sequamur?
    Donald S Murray
  • Which national post did Liz Lochhead hold from 2011 to 2016?
    Scots Makar
  • Who wrote The Bonnie Broukit Bairn?
    Hugh MacDiarmid
  • How is Phil McCann presented in Byrne's The Slab Boys?
    Clever, witty, rebellious and ambitious, from a poor background
  • What does the father do at the start of Don Paterson's The Swing?
    Puts up a swing for the boys in the garden
  • Who is the speaker in Kathleen Jamie's What the Clyde said, after COP26?
    The River Clyde
  • Which mountain does the speaker think about in MacCaig's Landscape and I?
    Schiehallion
  • Which Carol Ann Duffy collection includes Mrs Midas?
    The World's Wife (1999)
  • In The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, what does Enfield tell Utterson about on their Sunday walk?
    A man who trampled a girl in the street at three in the morning and was made to pay her family £100
  • How is Maggie presented in Men Should Weep?
    A tired, resourceful mother who holds the family together

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