Daily Practice · A Level
May 1972 5-a-day
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- 1st May 1972Why is an unseen essay that works through the extract chronologically usually limited to the middle bands?
- 2nd May 1972Name one comparative connective a writer could use to link two ideas across texts.
- 3rd May 1972What is meant by the 'holophrastic stage'?
- 4th May 1972What term describes a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?
- 5th May 1972Distinguish instrumental from influential power with one example each.
- 6th May 1972Explain the effect of enjambment that runs across a stanza break.
- 7th May 1972Identify one language technique in 'the wind came straight through.'
- 8th May 1972Name one social factor, other than region, that can cause variation in a person's language use.
- 9th May 1972Name the term for the moment the audience senses danger the protagonist does not yet see.
- 10th May 1972Name one contextual factor, other than mode, that can affect a text's linguistic choices.
- 11th May 1972What term describes a narrative told using 'I' and limited to one character's knowledge?
- 12th May 1972Name the stage in which function words are systematically omitted, and give an approximate age range.
- 13th May 1972Define free indirect discourse and give one reason a writer might use it.
- 14th May 1972Identify the semantic field used in the phrase 'the beam still turns, still finds the rocks.'
- 15th May 1972A child uses 'car' only for the family car and not for any other cars. What is this process called?
- 16th May 1972What is the effect of enjambment, a line running on without punctuation into the next?
- 17th May 1972What does a presupposition do in a question such as 'when did you stop checking the figures?'
- 18th May 1972Why is it worth comparing the final lines of two poems specifically?
- 19th May 1972What is meant by a 'structural shift' in an unseen text?
- 20th May 1972Name the linguist associated with the 'damp spoon', 'crumbling castle' and 'infectious disease' images of prescriptivist attitudes.
- 21st May 1972Identify one way this stage direction creates foreboding: 'Thunder, distant. The lamp flickers and does not right itself.'
- 22nd May 1972What term describes a variety of language used in a specific social setting or for a specific purpose?
- 23rd May 1972Identify the narrative structure technique where the story jumps back in time to an earlier event.
- 24th May 1972Identify the phonological process in 'gog' for dog and in 'nana' for banana.
- 25th May 1972Explain the difference between commenting on structure and commenting on language in an unseen prose response.
- 26th May 1972Explain in one sentence why comparing structure, not just content, matters when comparing two poems.
- 27th May 1972A child calls all four-legged animals 'doggie'. What is this process called?
- 28th May 1972A poem has four-line stanzas. What is this stanza form called?
- 29th May 1972Explain the difference between a positive and a negative face-threatening act.
- 30th May 1972Define volta and explain why it is useful in comparison.
- 31st May 1972What should you do first when reading an unseen extract in an exam?