Daily Practice · A Level
May 1957 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1957Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 2nd May 1957In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 3rd May 1957The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 4th May 1957What is 'hubris'?
- 5th May 1957What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 6th May 1957What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 7th May 1957Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 8th May 1957A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 9th May 1957Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 10th May 1957What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 11th May 1957What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 12th May 1957Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 13th May 1957A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 14th May 1957Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 15th May 1957Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 16th May 1957Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 17th May 1957Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 18th May 1957What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 19th May 1957Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 20th May 1957Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 21st May 1957Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 22nd May 1957A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 23rd May 1957What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 24th May 1957Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 25th May 1957Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 26th May 1957What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 27th May 1957Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 28th May 1957Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 29th May 1957What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 30th May 1957Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 31st May 1957Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.