Daily Practice · A Level
June 1965 5-a-day
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- 1st June 1965In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 2nd June 1965The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 3rd June 1965What is 'hubris'?
- 4th June 1965What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 5th June 1965What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 6th June 1965Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 7th June 1965Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 8th June 1965Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 9th June 1965What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 10th June 1965What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 11th June 1965Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 12th June 1965Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 13th June 1965Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 14th June 1965Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 15th June 1965Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 16th June 1965Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 17th June 1965What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 18th June 1965Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 19th June 1965Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 20th June 1965Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 21st June 1965A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 22nd June 1965What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 23rd June 1965What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 24th June 1965Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 25th June 1965What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 26th June 1965Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 27th June 1965Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 28th June 1965What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 29th June 1965Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 30th June 1965Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.