Daily Practice · A Level
April 1960 5-a-day
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- 1st April 1960What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 2nd April 1960How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 3rd April 1960Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 4th April 1960True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 5th April 1960What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 6th April 1960Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 7th April 1960Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 8th April 1960What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 9th April 1960Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 10th April 1960Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 11th April 1960Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 12th April 1960A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 13th April 1960What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 14th April 1960Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 15th April 1960Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 16th April 1960In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 17th April 1960The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 18th April 1960What is 'hubris'?
- 19th April 1960What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 20th April 1960What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 21st April 1960Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 22nd April 1960The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 23rd April 1960Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 24th April 1960What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 25th April 1960What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 26th April 1960Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 27th April 1960Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 28th April 1960Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 29th April 1960Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 30th April 1960Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.