Daily Practice · A Level
January 1954 5-a-day
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- 1st January 1954Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 2nd January 1954What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 3rd January 1954What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 4th January 1954Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 5th January 1954Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 6th January 1954Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 7th January 1954Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 8th January 1954Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 9th January 1954Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 10th January 1954What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 11th January 1954Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 12th January 1954How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 13th January 1954Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 14th January 1954A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 15th January 1954What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 16th January 1954How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 17th January 1954Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 18th January 1954What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 19th January 1954Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 20th January 1954Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 21st January 1954What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 22nd January 1954Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 23rd January 1954Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 24th January 1954Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 25th January 1954Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 26th January 1954A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 27th January 1954A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 28th January 1954Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 29th January 1954Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 30th January 1954What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 31st January 1954The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.