Daily Practice · A Level
February 1952 5-a-day
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- 1st February 1952What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 2nd February 1952Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 3rd February 1952Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 4th February 1952Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 5th February 1952Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 6th February 1952A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 7th February 1952A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 8th February 1952Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 9th February 1952Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 10th February 1952What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 11th February 1952The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 12th February 1952In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 13th February 1952Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 14th February 1952What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 15th February 1952Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 16th February 1952Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 17th February 1952In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 18th February 1952Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).
- 19th February 1952Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 20th February 1952What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 21st February 1952Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 22nd February 1952Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 23rd February 1952The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 24th February 1952A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 25th February 1952Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 26th February 1952Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 27th February 1952Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 28th February 1952Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 29th February 1952What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?