Daily Practice · A Level
September 1960 5-a-day
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- 1st September 1960Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 2nd September 1960Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 3rd September 1960A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 4th September 1960What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 5th September 1960Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 6th September 1960Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 7th September 1960In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 8th September 1960The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 9th September 1960What is 'hubris'?
- 10th September 1960What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 11th September 1960What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 12th September 1960Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 13th September 1960How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 14th September 1960Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 15th September 1960What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 16th September 1960What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 17th September 1960How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 18th September 1960Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 19th September 1960Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 20th September 1960Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 21st September 1960Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 22nd September 1960Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 23rd September 1960What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 24th September 1960Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 25th September 1960Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 26th September 1960Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 27th September 1960A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 28th September 1960What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 29th September 1960Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 30th September 1960Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'