Daily Practice · A Level
December 1962 5-a-day
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- 1st December 1962Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 2nd December 1962What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 3rd December 1962Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 4th December 1962Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 5th December 1962What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 6th December 1962Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 7th December 1962Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 8th December 1962Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 9th December 1962Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 10th December 1962A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 11th December 1962A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 12th December 1962What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 13th December 1962Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 14th December 1962What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 15th December 1962The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 16th December 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.
- 17th December 1962Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 18th December 1962What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 19th December 1962Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 20th December 1962Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 21st December 1962In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 22nd December 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).
- 23rd December 1962Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'
- 24th December 1962Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 25th December 1962Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 26th December 1962Give one reason subject terminology should be used carefully in unseen analysis.
- 27th December 1962The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 28th December 1962A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 29th December 1962Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 30th December 1962Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 31st December 1962Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.