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June 1966 5-a-day

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June 1966

30 sheets · 150 questions · A Level

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

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