Daily Practice · A Level
January 1967 5-a-day
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- 1st January 1967What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 2nd January 1967What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 3rd January 1967Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 4th January 1967A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 5th January 1967Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 6th January 1967What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 7th January 1967What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 8th January 1967Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 9th January 1967A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 10th January 1967Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 11th January 1967Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 12th January 1967Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 13th January 1967Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 14th January 1967What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 15th January 1967Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 16th January 1967Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 17th January 1967Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 18th January 1967A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 19th January 1967What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 20th January 1967Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 21st January 1967Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 22nd January 1967What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 23rd January 1967Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 24th January 1967Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 25th January 1967What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 26th January 1967Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 27th January 1967Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 28th January 1967Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 29th January 1967Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 30th January 1967A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 31st January 1967A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?