Daily Practice · A Level
April 1959 5-a-day
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- 1st April 1959Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 2nd April 1959Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 3rd April 1959Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 4th April 1959Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 5th April 1959What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 6th April 1959Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 7th April 1959What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 8th April 1959What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 9th April 1959Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 10th April 1959True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 11th April 1959What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 12th April 1959Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 13th April 1959Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 14th April 1959What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 15th April 1959Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 16th April 1959Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 17th April 1959Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 18th April 1959A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 19th April 1959What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 20th April 1959Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 21st April 1959Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 22nd April 1959In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 23rd April 1959The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 24th April 1959What is 'hubris'?
- 25th April 1959What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 26th April 1959What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 27th April 1959Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 28th April 1959How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 29th April 1959Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 30th April 1959What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?