Daily Practice · A Level
June 1966 5-a-day
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- 1st June 1966Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 2nd June 1966Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 3rd June 1966Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 4th June 1966What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 5th June 1966What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 6th June 1966Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 7th June 1966Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 8th June 1966Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 9th June 1966Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 10th June 1966Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 11th June 1966Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 12th June 1966What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 13th June 1966Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 14th June 1966How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 15th June 1966Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 16th June 1966A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 17th June 1966What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 18th June 1966How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 19th June 1966Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 20th June 1966What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 21st June 1966Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 22nd June 1966Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 23rd June 1966What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 24th June 1966Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 25th June 1966Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 26th June 1966Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 27th June 1966Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 28th June 1966A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 29th June 1966A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 30th June 1966Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.