Daily Practice · A Level
March 1952 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1952Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 2nd March 1952What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 3rd March 1952Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 4th March 1952Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 5th March 1952True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 6th March 1952What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 7th March 1952Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 8th March 1952Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 9th March 1952What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 10th March 1952Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 11th March 1952How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 12th March 1952Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 13th March 1952A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 14th March 1952What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 15th March 1952How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 16th March 1952Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 17th March 1952In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 18th March 1952The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 19th March 1952What is 'hubris'?
- 20th March 1952What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 21st March 1952What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 22nd March 1952Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 23rd March 1952Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 24th March 1952Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 25th March 1952What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 26th March 1952What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 27th March 1952Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 28th March 1952Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 29th March 1952Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 30th March 1952Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 31st March 1952Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.