Daily Practice · A Level
July 1958 5-a-day
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- 1st July 1958Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 2nd July 1958A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 3rd July 1958Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 4th July 1958A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 5th July 1958What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 6th July 1958Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 7th July 1958A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 8th July 1958In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 9th July 1958The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 10th July 1958What is 'hubris'?
- 11th July 1958What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 12th July 1958What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 13th July 1958Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 14th July 1958Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 15th July 1958Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 16th July 1958What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 17th July 1958What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 18th July 1958Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 19th July 1958Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 20th July 1958Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 21st July 1958Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 22nd July 1958Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 23rd July 1958Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 24th July 1958What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 25th July 1958Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 26th July 1958Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 27th July 1958Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 28th July 1958A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 29th July 1958What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 30th July 1958What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 31st July 1958Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?