Daily Practice · A Level
October 1971 5-a-day
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- 1st October 1971What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 2nd October 1971How can flouting a Gricean maxim be an exercise of power?
- 3rd October 1971Give one risk of using a comparison grid, and how to avoid it.
- 4th October 1971Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 5th October 1971Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 6th October 1971Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 7th October 1971Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 8th October 1971What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 9th October 1971Give two of Halliday's functions of language and an example utterance for each.
- 10th October 1971Rewrite this weak sentence to earn AO2 credit: 'The writer uses a simile to describe the house, which makes it more interesting.'
- 11th October 1971Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 12th October 1971A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 13th October 1971What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 14th October 1971Define synthetic personalisation and give an example.
- 15th October 1971Convert this into a comparative sentence: 'In poem A the sea is a threat. In poem B the sea is a comfort.'
- 16th October 1971What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 17th October 1971Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 18th October 1971Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 19th October 1971What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 20th October 1971Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 21st October 1971Why should an answer analysing children's writing not simply list spelling errors?
- 22nd October 1971The final sentence of an extract is a fragment: 'Rain, again.' Suggest two effects worth arguing for.
- 23rd October 1971Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 24th October 1971A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 25th October 1971A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 26th October 1971Explain how an agentless passive can exercise power.
- 27th October 1971Explain why comparing subject matter alone rarely reaches the higher bands.
- 28th October 1971What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?
- 29th October 1971The word 'dog' once referred to one specific breed but now refers to the whole species. Name this type of semantic change.
- 30th October 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.
- 31st October 1971Give one example of a linguistic feature typical of unplanned spoken discourse.