Daily Practice · A Level
October 1954 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1954What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 2nd October 1954Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 3rd October 1954Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 4th October 1954Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 5th October 1954A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 6th October 1954What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 7th October 1954Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 8th October 1954Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 9th October 1954In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 10th October 1954The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 11th October 1954What is 'hubris'?
- 12th October 1954What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 13th October 1954What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 14th October 1954Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 15th October 1954The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 16th October 1954Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 17th October 1954What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 18th October 1954What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 19th October 1954Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 20th October 1954Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 21st October 1954Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 22nd October 1954Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 23rd October 1954Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 24th October 1954Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 25th October 1954What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 26th October 1954Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 27th October 1954A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 28th October 1954Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 29th October 1954A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 30th October 1954What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 31st October 1954Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.