Daily Practice · A Level
November 1961 5-a-day
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- 1st November 1961True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 2nd November 1961What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 3rd November 1961Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 4th November 1961Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 5th November 1961What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 6th November 1961Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 7th November 1961How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 8th November 1961Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 9th November 1961A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 10th November 1961What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 11th November 1961How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 12th November 1961Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 13th November 1961In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 14th November 1961The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 15th November 1961What is 'hubris'?
- 16th November 1961What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 17th November 1961What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 18th November 1961Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 19th November 1961Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 20th November 1961Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 21st November 1961What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 22nd November 1961What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 23rd November 1961Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 24th November 1961Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 25th November 1961Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 26th November 1961Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 27th November 1961Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 28th November 1961Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 29th November 1961What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 30th November 1961Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?