Daily Practice · A Level
October 1953 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1953Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 2nd October 1953True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 3rd October 1953What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 4th October 1953Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 5th October 1953Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 6th October 1953What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 7th October 1953Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 8th October 1953Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 9th October 1953Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 10th October 1953A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 11th October 1953What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 12th October 1953Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 13th October 1953Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 14th October 1953In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 15th October 1953The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 16th October 1953What is 'hubris'?
- 17th October 1953What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 18th October 1953What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 19th October 1953Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 20th October 1953How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 21st October 1953Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 22nd October 1953What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 23rd October 1953What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 24th October 1953How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 25th October 1953Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 26th October 1953Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 27th October 1953Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 28th October 1953Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 29th October 1953Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 30th October 1953What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 31st October 1953Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.