Daily Practice · A Level
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- 1st June 1968What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 2nd June 1968Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 3rd June 1968Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 4th June 1968Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 5th June 1968A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 6th June 1968What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 7th June 1968Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 8th June 1968Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 9th June 1968What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 10th June 1968Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 11th June 1968Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 12th June 1968What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 13th June 1968Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 14th June 1968Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 15th June 1968Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 16th June 1968Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 17th June 1968A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 18th June 1968A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 19th June 1968What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 20th June 1968Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 21st June 1968What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 22nd June 1968The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 23rd June 1968In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 24th June 1968Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 25th June 1968What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 26th June 1968Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 27th June 1968Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 28th June 1968In 'I sold the lamp for scrap and kept the key,' identify the contrast being set up.
- 29th June 1968Calculate the MLU in morphemes for these three utterances: 'I want juice' (3 morphemes), 'the dog barked' (4 morphemes, counting -ed as one), 'mummy gone now' (3 morphemes).
- 30th June 1968Identify the technique in 'the silence screamed.'