Daily Practice · A Level
February 1970 5-a-day
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- 1st February 1970A tragic hero's downfall is usually explained by two competing forces. Name them.
- 2nd February 1970Identify which is more likely to use nominalisation and passive voice: a casual spoken chat or a formal council report.
- 3rd February 1970Identify the technique in this phrase: 'the silence pressed against the windows like a living thing.'
- 4th February 1970Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 5th February 1970Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 6th February 1970What does the term 'volta' mean in poetry?
- 7th February 1970Name the theorist associated with the Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
- 8th February 1970What term describes a pause or break within a line of poetry, often marked by punctuation?
- 9th February 1970Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 10th February 1970Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 11th February 1970True or false: unseen answers are marked mainly on how much of the text you cover.
- 12th February 1970What term describes a speaker adjusting their speech to sound more like their listener?
- 13th February 1970Define the term 'hamartia' as used in the study of tragedy.
- 14th February 1970Define 'mode' as a linguistic term.
- 15th February 1970What term describes a narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters?
- 16th February 1970Explain how a transcript could be used as evidence against Skinner's account.
- 17th February 1970How can AO3 be addressed in an unseen where no author or date is given?
- 18th February 1970Define 'extended metaphor'.
- 19th February 1970A child says 'I have two foots.' Identify the grammatical process.
- 20th February 1970What term describes giving human qualities to a non-human thing, e.g. 'the wind whispered'?
- 21st February 1970How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 22nd February 1970Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 23rd February 1970In 'watching for headlights that were not, yet, her mother's,' what effect does the delayed final phrase have?
- 24th February 1970The word 'awful' once meant 'inspiring awe or reverence' but now means 'very bad'. Name this type of semantic change.
- 25th February 1970What is 'hubris'?
- 26th February 1970What is the term for turning a verb or adjective into a noun, e.g. 'decide' becoming 'decision'?
- 27th February 1970What term describes an object or image that represents a wider idea, e.g. a wilting flower representing decline?
- 28th February 1970Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.