Daily Practice · A Level
April 1965 5-a-day
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- 1st April 1965Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 2nd April 1965Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 3rd April 1965Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 4th April 1965Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 5th April 1965Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 6th April 1965What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 7th April 1965Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 8th April 1965Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 9th April 1965Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 10th April 1965A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 11th April 1965What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 12th April 1965Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 13th April 1965Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 14th April 1965What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 15th April 1965Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 16th April 1965Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 17th April 1965What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 18th April 1965Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 19th April 1965Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 20th April 1965How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 21st April 1965Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 22nd April 1965A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 23rd April 1965A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 24th April 1965How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 25th April 1965Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 26th April 1965What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 27th April 1965The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 28th April 1965In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 29th April 1965Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 30th April 1965What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?