Daily Practice · A Level
February 1963 5-a-day
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- 1st February 1963Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 2nd February 1963Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 3rd February 1963Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 4th February 1963What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 5th February 1963Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 6th February 1963A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 7th February 1963Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 8th February 1963A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 9th February 1963What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 10th February 1963Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 11th February 1963A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 12th February 1963What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 13th February 1963Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 14th February 1963Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 15th February 1963What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 16th February 1963Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 17th February 1963Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 18th February 1963Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 19th February 1963Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 20th February 1963A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 21st February 1963A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 22nd February 1963Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 23rd February 1963Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 24th February 1963What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 25th February 1963The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 26th February 1963In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 27th February 1963Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 28th February 1963What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?