Daily Practice · A Level
December 1955 5-a-day
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- 1st December 1955Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 2nd December 1955Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 3rd December 1955True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 4th December 1955What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 5th December 1955Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 6th December 1955Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 7th December 1955What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 8th December 1955Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 9th December 1955The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 10th December 1955Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 11th December 1955A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 12th December 1955What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 13th December 1955Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 14th December 1955Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 15th December 1955In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 16th December 1955The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 17th December 1955What is 'hubris'?
- 18th December 1955What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 19th December 1955What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 20th December 1955Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 21st December 1955A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 22nd December 1955Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 23rd December 1955What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 24th December 1955What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 25th December 1955Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 26th December 1955A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 27th December 1955Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 28th December 1955Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 29th December 1955Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 30th December 1955Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 31st December 1955What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?