Daily Practice · A Level
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- 1st April 1952Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 2nd April 1952What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 3rd April 1952Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 4th April 1952The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 5th April 1952Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 6th April 1952A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 7th April 1952What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 8th April 1952Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 9th April 1952Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 10th April 1952What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 11th April 1952Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 12th April 1952Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 13th April 1952What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 14th April 1952Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 15th April 1952Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 16th April 1952A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 17th April 1952Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 18th April 1952A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 19th April 1952A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 20th April 1952Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 21st April 1952A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 22nd April 1952What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 23rd April 1952The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 24th April 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.
- 25th April 1952Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 26th April 1952What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 27th April 1952Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 28th April 1952Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 29th April 1952In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 30th April 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).