Daily Practice · A Level
June 1956 5-a-day
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- 1st June 1956Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 2nd June 1956Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 3rd June 1956What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 4th June 1956Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 5th June 1956Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 6th June 1956A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 7th June 1956Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 8th June 1956A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 9th June 1956A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 10th June 1956Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 11th June 1956A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 12th June 1956What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 13th June 1956The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 14th June 1956In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 15th June 1956Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 16th June 1956What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 17th June 1956Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 18th June 1956Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 19th June 1956In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 20th June 1956Calculate 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).
- 21st June 1956Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 22nd June 1956Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 23rd June 1956Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 24th June 1956Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 25th June 1956The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 26th June 1956A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 27th June 1956Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 28th June 1956Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 29th June 1956Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 30th June 1956Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.