Daily Practice · A Level
June 1955 5-a-day
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- 1st June 1955Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 2nd June 1955A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 3rd June 1955What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 4th June 1955How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 5th June 1955Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 6th June 1955What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 7th June 1955Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 8th June 1955Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 9th June 1955What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 10th June 1955Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 11th June 1955Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 12th June 1955Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 13th June 1955Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 14th June 1955A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 15th June 1955A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 16th June 1955Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 17th June 1955Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 18th June 1955What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 19th June 1955The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 20th June 1955In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 21st June 1955Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 22nd June 1955What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 23rd June 1955Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 24th June 1955The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 25th June 1955In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 26th June 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).
- 27th June 1955Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 28th June 1955Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 29th June 1955Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 30th June 1955Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.