Daily Practice · A Level
June 1963 5-a-day
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- 1st June 1963What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 2nd June 1963Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 3rd June 1963Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 4th June 1963What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 5th June 1963Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 6th June 1963Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 7th June 1963Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 8th June 1963A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 9th June 1963What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 10th June 1963Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 11th June 1963Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 12th June 1963In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 13th June 1963The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 14th June 1963What is 'hubris'?
- 15th June 1963What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 16th June 1963What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 17th June 1963Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 18th June 1963How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 19th June 1963Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 20th June 1963What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 21st June 1963What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 22nd June 1963How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 23rd June 1963Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 24th June 1963Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 25th June 1963Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 26th June 1963Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 27th June 1963Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 28th June 1963What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 29th June 1963Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 30th June 1963Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'