Daily Practice · A Level
May 1956 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1956How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 2nd May 1956Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 3rd May 1956A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 4th May 1956What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 5th May 1956How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 6th May 1956Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 7th May 1956In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 8th May 1956The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th May 1956What is 'hubris'?
- 10th May 1956What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 11th May 1956What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 12th May 1956Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 13th May 1956Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 14th May 1956Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 15th May 1956What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 16th May 1956What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 17th May 1956Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 18th May 1956Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 19th May 1956Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 20th May 1956Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 21st May 1956Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 22nd May 1956Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 23rd May 1956What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 24th May 1956Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 25th May 1956The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 26th May 1956Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 27th May 1956A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 28th May 1956What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 29th May 1956Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 30th May 1956Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 31st May 1956What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?