Daily Practice · A Level
March 1971 5-a-day
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- 1st March 1971A poem in regular iambic pentameter breaks the metre in one line only. Suggest how to analyse it.
- 2nd March 1971Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 3rd March 1971Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 4th March 1971Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 5th March 1971Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 6th March 1971What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 7th March 1971Distinguish a recast from an expansion in caregiver speech.
- 8th March 1971Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 9th March 1971Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 10th March 1971A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 11th March 1971What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 12th March 1971Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 13th March 1971Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 14th March 1971What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 15th March 1971Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 16th March 1971Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 17th March 1971What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 18th March 1971Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 19th March 1971Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 20th March 1971Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 21st March 1971Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 22nd March 1971A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 23rd March 1971A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 24th March 1971What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 25th March 1971Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 26th March 1971What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 27th March 1971The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 28th March 1971In the line 'I have kept this light for twenty-six years, and the sea has never once told me my business,' identify the tone.
- 29th March 1971Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.
- 30th March 1971What is the effect of a very short, simple sentence placed after a long, complex one?
- 31st March 1971Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.