Daily Practice · A Level
December 1967 5-a-day
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- 1st December 1967The word 'nice' once meant 'foolish or fussy' but now means 'pleasant'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 2nd December 1967A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 3rd December 1967Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 4th December 1967Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 5th December 1967Define a virtuous error and explain why it matters theoretically.
- 6th December 1967A student writes: 'The sibilance creates a soft, sinister mood.' What is missing?
- 7th December 1967What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 8th December 1967Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 9th December 1967What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 10th December 1967Give two spoken features that typically mark a less powerful participant.
- 11th December 1967A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 12th December 1967True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 13th December 1967What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 14th December 1967Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 15th December 1967Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 16th December 1967What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 17th December 1967Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 18th December 1967Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 19th December 1967Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 20th December 1967A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 21st December 1967What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 22nd December 1967Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 23rd December 1967Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 24th December 1967In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 25th December 1967The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 26th December 1967What is 'hubris'?
- 27th December 1967What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 28th December 1967What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 29th December 1967Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 30th December 1967Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 31st December 1967Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.