Daily Practice · A Level
May 1953 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1953A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 2nd May 1953Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 3rd May 1953Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 4th May 1953Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 5th May 1953How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 6th May 1953What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 7th May 1953Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 8th May 1953What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 9th May 1953How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 10th May 1953Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 11th May 1953True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 12th May 1953What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 13th May 1953Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 14th May 1953Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 15th May 1953What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 16th May 1953Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 17th May 1953Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 18th May 1953Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 19th May 1953A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 20th May 1953What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 21st May 1953Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 22nd May 1953Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 23rd May 1953In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 24th May 1953The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 25th May 1953What is 'hubris'?
- 26th May 1953What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 27th May 1953What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 28th May 1953Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 29th May 1953The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 30th May 1953Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 31st May 1953What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?