Daily Practice · A Level
August 1963 5-a-day
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- 1st August 1963A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 2nd August 1963Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 3rd August 1963Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 4th August 1963Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 5th August 1963Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 6th August 1963What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 7th August 1963Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 8th August 1963What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 9th August 1963Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 10th August 1963Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 11th August 1963True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 12th August 1963What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 13th August 1963Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 14th August 1963Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 15th August 1963What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 16th August 1963Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 17th August 1963Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 18th August 1963Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 19th August 1963A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 20th August 1963What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 21st August 1963What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 22nd August 1963Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 23rd August 1963In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 24th August 1963The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 25th August 1963What is 'hubris'?
- 26th August 1963What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 27th August 1963What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 28th August 1963Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 29th August 1963Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 30th August 1963Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 31st August 1963What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?