Daily Practice · A Level
February 1960 5-a-day
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- 1st February 1960What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 2nd February 1960Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 3rd February 1960Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 4th February 1960In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 5th February 1960The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 6th February 1960What is 'hubris'?
- 7th February 1960What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 8th February 1960What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 9th February 1960Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 10th February 1960A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 11th February 1960Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 12th February 1960What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 13th February 1960What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 14th February 1960Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 15th February 1960A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 16th February 1960Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 17th February 1960Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 18th February 1960Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 19th February 1960Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 20th February 1960What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 21st February 1960Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 22nd February 1960Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 23rd February 1960Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 24th February 1960A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 25th February 1960What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 26th February 1960Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 27th February 1960Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 28th February 1960What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 29th February 1960Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.