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July 1962

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  1. 1st July 1962Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
  2. 2nd July 1962Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
  3. 3rd July 1962What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
  4. 4th July 1962Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
  5. 5th July 1962Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
  6. 6th July 1962Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
  7. 7th July 1962A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
  8. 8th July 1962What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
  9. 9th July 1962Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
  10. 10th July 1962Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
  11. 11th July 1962What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
  12. 12th July 1962Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
  13. 13th July 1962Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
  14. 14th July 1962What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
  15. 15th July 1962Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
  16. 16th July 1962Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
  17. 17th July 1962How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
  18. 18th July 1962Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
  19. 19th July 1962A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
  20. 20th July 1962A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
  21. 21st July 1962How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
  22. 22nd July 1962Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
  23. 23rd July 1962What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
  24. 24th July 1962The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
  25. 25th July 1962In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
  26. 26th July 1962Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
  27. 27th July 1962What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
  28. 28th July 1962Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
  29. 29th July 1962Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
  30. 30th July 1962In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
  31. 31st July 1962Calculate 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).

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