Daily Practice · A Level
February 1955 5-a-day
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- 1st February 1955In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 2nd February 1955Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).
- 3rd February 1955Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 4th February 1955Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 5th February 1955Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 6th February 1955Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 7th February 1955The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 8th February 1955A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 9th February 1955Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 10th February 1955Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 11th February 1955Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 12th February 1955Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 13th February 1955What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 14th February 1955Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 15th February 1955What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 16th February 1955What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 17th February 1955Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 18th February 1955True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 19th February 1955What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 20th February 1955Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 21st February 1955Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 22nd February 1955What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 23rd February 1955Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 24th February 1955Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 25th February 1955Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 26th February 1955A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 27th February 1955What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 28th February 1955Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.