Daily Practice · A Level
March 1953 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1953What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 2nd March 1953Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 3rd March 1953Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 4th March 1953What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 5th March 1953Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 6th March 1953The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 7th March 1953Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 8th March 1953A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 9th March 1953What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 10th March 1953Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 11th March 1953Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 12th March 1953In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 13th March 1953The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 14th March 1953What is 'hubris'?
- 15th March 1953What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 16th March 1953What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 17th March 1953Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 18th March 1953A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 19th March 1953Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 20th March 1953What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 21st March 1953What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 22nd March 1953Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 23rd March 1953A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 24th March 1953Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 25th March 1953Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 26th March 1953Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 27th March 1953Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 28th March 1953What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 29th March 1953Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 30th March 1953Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 31st March 1953Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'