Daily Practice · A Level
January 1961 5-a-day
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- 1st January 1961Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).
- 2nd January 1961Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 3rd January 1961Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 4th January 1961Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 5th January 1961Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 6th January 1961The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 7th January 1961A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 8th January 1961Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 9th January 1961Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 10th January 1961Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 11th January 1961A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 12th January 1961What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 13th January 1961Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 14th January 1961What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 15th January 1961Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 16th January 1961A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 17th January 1961True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 18th January 1961What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 19th January 1961Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 20th January 1961Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 21st January 1961What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 22nd January 1961Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 23rd January 1961Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 24th January 1961Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 25th January 1961A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 26th January 1961What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 27th January 1961Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 28th January 1961Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 29th January 1961In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 30th January 1961The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 31st January 1961What is 'hubris'?