Daily Practice · A Level
May 1961 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1961A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 2nd May 1961What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 3rd May 1961What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 4th May 1961Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 5th May 1961What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 6th May 1961Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 7th May 1961Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 8th May 1961What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 9th May 1961Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 10th May 1961Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 11th May 1961Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 12th May 1961Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 13th May 1961A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 14th May 1961A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 15th May 1961Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 16th May 1961Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 17th May 1961What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 18th May 1961The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 19th May 1961In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 20th May 1961Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 21st May 1961What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 22nd May 1961Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 23rd May 1961How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 24th May 1961In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 25th May 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).
- 26th May 1961Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 27th May 1961How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 28th May 1961Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 29th May 1961Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 30th May 1961The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 31st May 1961A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.